What Loofahs Are Made From Will Blow Your God Damn Mind
Tomorrow morning when you get in the shower, grab your loofah and use it to give yourself a casual scrub down, spare a thought for the humble gourd.
Why? Because that's what your loofah is actually made from.
Yeah we know: it is pretty mind blowing to find out you've been rubbing yourself down with a dried cucumber for all these years without everknowing it.
If, like us, you've never really given a second thought to what your loofah is made from then perhaps, also like us, you assumed that your natural loofah came from the sea or something.
NOPE - it's the inside of a gourd (you know, those decorative, cucmber-like things Americans always seems to put in bowls around Thanksgiving time), as BuzzFeed News have very helpfully revealed to the world.
You just dry a gourd, peel off the skin like so and VOILA:
Seriously, it's like everything we ever thought we knew is a lie.
Tune in next week for news that Kylie Jenner is going to quit Snapchat and get a job at a Starbucks drive-thru.
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