How Luffa Sponges Are Made

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Luffa Gardens in Reedley, California grows and harvests organic luffa sponges. Luffas are a type of cucumber in the gourd family. They're best used for bathing, exfoliating and cleaning. Farm Owners Nathan and Sherri Pauls show us how luffas go from seed to sponge.
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How Luffa Sponges Are Made

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@ultrasvanessha5030 5 лет назад

damn nature give us everything even dishwashing sponge

@DaniellesMicoMarley 5 лет назад

Thats called God :)

@theanimatorcomposer9332 5 лет назад

THANK YOU NATURE

@ultrasvanessha5030 5 лет назад

calm brandon, you need luffa sponges.

@skylermp7615 5 лет назад

They gave us chocolate

@ShebrewQueen 5 лет назад

@@Stonecrusher333 wow... that went left.

@nardellymalagonnaranjo8512 5 лет назад

In latín america is used to wash and scrub our body... but now i will wash my dishes with it too.. thanks for your information...

@khasualentertainment6734 5 лет назад

America 2

@Historyjewels 5 лет назад

We only use it for showering where I'm from XD

@demiray1097 5 лет назад

@@Historyjewels same

@ultramc8410 5 лет назад

@@Historyjewels same

@deleted2869 5 лет назад

@@Historyjewels yeah me too! I'm an Arab idk if that's a variable lol :P

@riadas8434 3 года назад

this is pretty common in Asian countries I suppose. You eat it, and when you miss to eat it at right time (as it grows too many fruits), you let it dry off to become loofa. I remember one season we had around 8-10 loofas lying around. Thats why for people from other parts of world it appears rather too exotic. It grows almost in every backyard or garden land space in semi-urban and villages in eastern half of India. Definitely better than the high priced nylon mess.

@kimyn8408 2 года назад

Ikr. I use it everyday and i don't have to buy it since we get it from our garden in village

@forever____________young Год назад

Lol yes its so common in northeast india

@jooniesbonsai4064 Год назад

It's so eco friendly too, i never knew we could grow these in India

@neelamrana6279 4 месяца назад

@@jooniesbonsai4064 konsi jagah rhte ho india mei..ye tori hai ..aur jab sukh jati hai loofah bn jata hai😂

@neelamrana6279 4 месяца назад

@@jooniesbonsai4064 ye to india mei har jagah hoti hai...pehle k log isi se bartan dhote the..,nahate the..

@prabhuseva6018 3 года назад

We had been using these since age immemorial, (atleast in India) i remember my grandmother making these loofas for us when the sponge gourds ripened.....and when they are young and tender, used as vegetable in different recipes. They are indeed very useful and nature has provided us with such lovely things.

@corona__virus Год назад

한국에서도 마찬가지.

@abhiramisubhash583 3 года назад

Me looking at my backyard "I never knew i was so rich"

@procrastinatingcat6195 3 года назад

Same!

@kevinyoussef9821 3 года назад

69 yeee

@beluwuga2229 3 года назад

@Timothy Gagliano ya

@admiralackbar3615 3 года назад

@Timothy Gagliano I live in a colder place so I’ve never seen a cactus in the wild, only in a few plant vases.

@beluwuga2229 3 года назад

@Timothy Gagliano yup lol I just had it idk why lol

@happyeagle92 5 лет назад

In Chinese we call it 絲瓜. The literal translation is "silky melon" because the texture is really soft when steamed. There is a slight sweet taste to it. We harvest it when it is young, before the Luffa part develops. In fact, once the Luffa is there, it's no longer edible, because it becomes too fibrous.

@tirzxh 5 лет назад

That's interesting 😀

@ez520 5 лет назад

I loved when my grandma making their own back in China. She always make more for all her children’s family

@tacoshark8578 5 лет назад

My grandma grows them to make both food and sponge lmao

@Ferpurses 5 лет назад

where I used to live we always used them just as sponges! we had no idea one can cook them !

@katherinezp 5 лет назад

老丝瓜，我也不知妈妈去哪买的，她就是喜欢这种旧传统，说这种洗的干净。老美也会用，我去一家德州南方餐厅看到他们居然有洗衣板放在餐厅，看来全世界有共同点。

@annierey6775 3 года назад

This were the only sponges we used in my house growing up and I still used them! Actually my grandma planted some in our backyard and we got so many that we had to give them to the rest of the family or neighbors lol crazy how there's pol who doesn't know about this

@pushma318 2 года назад

We are also used this from our child wood. My great grandma was planted luffa as vegetables, when it ripened we used it for bathing , dishwashing, and so many cleaning purposes. Once planted it will remain there for years,If one of its seed remain in the garden.

@malafanai4026 3 года назад

In Third world countries, we use this rather than synthetic ones💕it literally grows on your backyard, your mini garden, the sidewalks, your neighbourhood’s window garden, you see this everywhere naturally.

@tum6947 2 года назад

Very true.

@tum6947 2 года назад

Its also the same in India. They don't need any care at all to grow

@lystrawilliams9678 2 года назад

So true, im from Trinidad and it's common here, but we call it" taw shaw"

@ijeonu2405 2 года назад

It is a weed

@120paj 2 года назад

Very true we used it alot in the Caribbean 🌻

@catatacc 5 лет назад

I can't believe I was today years old when I found out real luffas are a plant, and not a weird synthetic mesh hanging from a walmart aisle shelf.

@Natalia-hf3et 5 лет назад

Yep😁😁

@MrIhatepaper 5 лет назад

there is actually synthetic one so you are not completely wrong

@MsBratz21 5 лет назад

Lol

@kokichiouma1831 4 года назад

I thought they were a sea sponge or something.....boy do I have news for my mom

@SymbiontUVPlays 4 года назад

same

@jedimaster0667 5 лет назад

So you're telling me there's a biodegradable option for plastic sponges n stuff... Amazing. Keep the corporate junkies off these people

@Dragon94560 5 лет назад

You can cook and eat that too while it's still young

@gutwounds 5 лет назад

@@Dragon94560 eat my dish sponge after a whopping pile of dishes... well seasoned, i guess

@perditabori8472 5 лет назад

@@gutwounds it's actually true. You can eat it when it's tender and before it turns to a sponge. It's actually tasty.

@CarrieAnn77 5 лет назад

I know how amazing is that.. And they last 10 times longer than those plastic garbage things.. The plastic ones will sit in a landfill over 10,000 years. These are nature's fiber that will just disintegrate into the ground. Yet, most people just won't buy them which is crazy they lost a thousand times longer. I didn't even know you could use these for doing your dishes.

@jedimaster0667 5 лет назад

@@CarrieAnn77 I'm gonna make it my mission to find where to buy them locally

@nardash30 3 года назад

when he cut open the dried luffa at 0:28 , one got 3 seed holes and the other one got 4 holes.. AMAZING

@cricketwebs 3 года назад

with 3 seed holes is female and with four seeds is male. it's also used to find out male capsicum and female capsicum

@roshanshrestha6195 3 года назад

In Nepal, this is a vegetable we eat. This is call "Gheeraula" in the Nepalese language.

@chrissyhill7890 3 года назад

What's it tastes like? And how do you cook it? And do you season it with anything?

@robind7359 3 года назад

@@chrissyhill7890 First heat the pan.. Add some oil, when the oil is hot put some cumin seed then add onion, garlic ginger paste and fry it till its cooked well.. Then add turmeric.. Chilli powder, cumin and coriander powder.. After that add the veggie and add some salt..Then cooked it well.. Hope this helps😀

@kalpanakhanal5387 3 года назад

@@chrissyhill7890 Let me tell ya bro most of us Zen Z hate it.

@dajag6846 3 года назад

It’s one of my favorite vegetable.

@dajag6846 3 года назад

@@kalpanakhanal5387 not me

@supernarl 3 года назад

Young luffas are actually delicious when cooked. In the Philippines, it's stir fried with a lot of shrimps. ☺️

@jerryperez5267 3 года назад

you can add it in soups too. sinabawang gulay or saute it with sardines.

@supernarl 3 года назад

@@jerryperez5267 Definitely. Its sweet taste makes it superbly delicious. ☺️

@helenavilla8867 3 года назад

Yeah, stir fried sponges... Edit: im just kidding y'all, don't even take it seriously lmao

@supernarl 3 года назад

@@helenavilla8867 How dumb are you? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

@jerryperez5267 3 года назад

@@helenavilla8867 they made it into a sponge because when over-matured they are very fiberous just like in the video. young ones can be eaten as a veg. dumbass

@renny489 4 года назад

Literally almost half of the country: Oh yea, we just have these growing all over the place The US: YOU WHAT?!?

@emmatumusiime5837 3 года назад

Ikr?;yet the story makes it seem like the greatest human discovery has been made😹

@melonbals5512 3 года назад

bruh my mom grew these and used them for sponges and i just thought it was a wierd thing that she did

@thefroggy5240 3 года назад

brazilian here, my grandpa had a little farm filled with these 😂

@rumblefish9 3 года назад

@@thefroggy5240 these are edible before the fibers start to harden. We put them in soups in the Philippines

@aanya3248 3 года назад

...you know the US is a country, right?

@Missionlbsnaa6038 3 года назад

In India, especially in Bihar we call it "nenuaa". It is a sweet pulpy vegetable, it is edible in its early stage, but when it grows big and get dried under the sun it is used is bathing sponge.

@mobraksamar7022 3 года назад

Yeah . I know right .

@gulchamanbegum3372 2 года назад

Also odishaa

@dionysiacreado8667 2 года назад

I would love to get my hands on these as I am from mumbai

@purnimaroy2411 2 года назад

In Bengal we call it dhudul......and as vegetable we cook it up with daal.....it's tasty and nutritious......

@himanshgarg9194 2 года назад

In Punjab and Haryana, we call it Touri ..it's in the same family of Ghiya

@diana056 3 года назад

I remember having this on my backyard in the DR. I love taking a shower with this.

@reanisuii 5 лет назад

Idk what I expected them to be made from... but this wasn’t it

@Wyttt95 5 лет назад

Irreleadas msp exactly, I had to check the upload date to make sure it wasn’t from April 1st

@christopherkeroro723 5 лет назад

I only recently knew that it was actually a freaking fruit since there's seed in it which is weird INSIDER how u gonna post this just after??

@bquecha7526 5 лет назад

I thought it was just dried ramen noodles

@indecentseas- 5 лет назад

me too... great comment.

@meep8031 5 лет назад

THIS AIN'T IT CHIEF

@MoxieBeast 5 лет назад

i still remember when these suddenly became available at the Asian grocery store when I was growing up, and how excited my parents where. i love EATING luffa too.

@xubsplayground7777 5 лет назад

Moxie Beast ASMR Me too

@cherrellbovain9138 5 лет назад

What did it taste like?

@pooh4025 5 лет назад

I was wondering why the international store where I live sold them

@dimitriymirovsky 5 лет назад

So what it taste like?

@NilanjanKarAltVX1 5 лет назад

Dimitriy Mirovsky it tastes like the vegetable groud.

@SurinderKumar-yx3eh 3 года назад

I had used this sponge when I was very young. My father made these songes for the family. This video has refreshed my memory and I would arrange such sponges again. Love❤️ from India

@jenniferv618 3 года назад

4:07 _Look at the cat watching his/her peasants as they do all the hard work while they wait for food_ 🤣

@boyinroses404 4 года назад

In north africa my mom used to scrub the devil out of us with those when we were kids

@komorebishinrinyoku5740 4 года назад

I always thought they would hurt

@boyinroses404 4 года назад

@@Helpmereachsubscriberswithnore I am white lol

@danielbarrera2276 4 года назад

Thoses sponges hurt so bad

@imapigeonyoupeasant1489 4 года назад

@@boyinroses404 north africa or south?

@retf8977 4 года назад

Umm... which country in north Africa? Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, Mauritania or Egypt? Cause' I am Egyptian

@choppking8738 3 года назад

You know those Luffas are actually eaten when it's not matured like a sponge.

@paris2993 3 года назад

U south East Asian?!

@acupcake90 3 года назад

Stir fried it with eggs!

@gufran_ 3 года назад

@@paris2993 yes , we eat as vegetable.

@brybryyy3197 3 года назад

Ya ya, but I dont like the taste of it tbh

@emmaqiu 3 года назад

Mena my fav dish!

@hope4fur130 Год назад

So cool! Absolutely in love with how they saw this weird unknown thing, did their research, and made it into something big for them❤

@kookiejam8184 3 года назад

It's the legendary "ghiraula" here in Nepal And back in my village we too used it as a sponge Brings back memories ❤❤

@sitalabhattarai9333 3 года назад

thank god , here i found ghiraula

@kookiejam8184 3 года назад

@@sitalabhattarai9333 😹😹 This is fate Ghiraulale jurayo🤣 Have a nice dayy🌻🌻

@sitalabhattarai9333 3 года назад

@@kookiejam8184 haha yeah 😄 💕

@pratikshasubba9537 2 года назад

Sabai bhanda wakaii lagdo sabji🥴🤣🤝

@kookiejam8184 2 года назад

@@pratikshasubba9537 I might be the only exception then cause I kinda like it 😂

@cafezo87934 5 лет назад

I support this. everybody needs to take a bath or shower. this is useful and will never go out. organic and healthy is in right now and luffa sponges are as organic and healthy as it gets.

@riaranta3150 5 лет назад

Ana Carolina “organic and healthy is in right now” That’s the problem.

@lolyee931 5 лет назад

Ana Carolina My penis is in a blender right now, why isn’t everyone else’s

@geeeckooo 5 лет назад

I mean, the sponges are natural, but they aren't necessarily _healthy_ unless you're eating them... but I get your point.

@microscopicsquishing9243 5 лет назад

Also they are supposed to be pronounced loofah not luffa

@tacoshark8578 5 лет назад

@Macaroni Butt the sponges was called loofah yes but the plant, specifically the gourd, is called the luffa squash.

@julieb3996 5 лет назад

I did not know Luffa came from a plant and not the sea, until a few months ago. I bought seeds and hope to plant them this year.

@ThuyNguyen-gc4rx 5 лет назад

You can pick the fruit when it's still young and cook it. In my place, it is common to make soup from this kind of fruit. You can also stir fry it. Just make sure the fruit is young enough or it may be too tough to chew!

@blu2954 5 лет назад

@@pameladarlenewoodward8385 I don't know what to think about your comment

@danieldebbarma 5 лет назад

Here in Tripura, India. Every monson season grows. This vegi grow in Tropical rainforest.

@view1st 5 лет назад

@@ThuyNguyen-gc4rx what's it taste like?

@lewiscleveland4661 5 лет назад

@@view1st taste like chicken.

@shivenGhale 3 года назад

This is found in almost every household in Nepal.. all you have to do is just dry the gourd and it's ready.. we use it as a body scrubber while taking shower...

@sushreesuchismita6003 3 года назад

For years, we have been using it as a bath and dishwash luffa in Indian villages. And the children play it for the sound that comes from its seeds..☺️

@tiicktocktiimbers7471 5 лет назад

Me: *Attempting to sleep* Brain at 1 am:Loofas Me: Brain No. Brain: BRAIN YES

@Antiquirom 5 лет назад

XxEggø_SunxX XD 😂👌 why did I laugh at this!!! 😂👌

@stevenbeaubien 5 лет назад

Me at 12:09am

@AYL0XY 5 лет назад

@Julz437 5 лет назад

You and me both 😂😅

@someoneissomeone6382 4 года назад

Has dream of eating it

@colimote1978 4 года назад

In mexico we use that for hundreds of years i have a plant in my back yard we call planta de estropajo.

@kb5598 3 года назад

Yeess!! When I was lil I used to tell my grandma not to scrub me with the mecate cause it felt hard and rough like rope 🤣

@Marlene5018 3 года назад

In Mexico this is not “A novedad” everyone know it 😏

@asianscense9431 3 года назад

@@kb5598 same here , I used to hate it lol

@tlacxztli_1 3 года назад

Also called zacate

@arial012 3 года назад

Speedy Gonzalez

@wendygoicochea5910 3 года назад

Thank you for sharing. I was gifted some seeds last fall and i am going to plant some along my garden fence. I have used luffa for years but this will be my first for growing.

@rumelabosemishra295 3 года назад

Grew up using these for absolutely free of any cost. They were soft and scratchy veeeery soothing.

@roshanshah8020 5 лет назад

In Nepal We grow them in our Farm😂 I didn't know it's called luffa sponges. We also cook them for food when they aren't too old.

@snowmanrainmaker 4 года назад

You eat loofah sponges?

@hillre14 4 года назад

What do they taste like?

@rachanaacharya1799 4 года назад

@@hillre14 we eat the gourd when young. We make curry out of them. If we want to make a bath sponge out of that we just leave it in the plant to mature

@XeroZVash 4 года назад

We eat that also here in PH ,, it makes ur dish smell so good

@hemantsingh123billy 4 года назад

@@hillre14 something like pumpkin. Like most of vegetables 😁 . I never liked it but some people like it very much

@jeffkaplan8142 5 лет назад

Y'all need to partner with lush to get them to sky rocket.

@szacharyf 5 лет назад

Jeff Kaplan - lush has already been skyrocketed! But yes, they should offer these in their stores! I was just there yesterday buying shampoo.

@jeffkaplan8142 5 лет назад

Zachary Fehr I meant to get the sponges booming lol

@szacharyf 5 лет назад

Jeff Kaplan - oh, that makes more sense! Well, this video is doing something, I literally bought a loofa and their face exfoliator right after watching.

@zen3490 5 лет назад

Good job with the brig nerfs

@jeffkaplan8142 5 лет назад

Zen Rapier34 we needed a healer

@plumpbunnychunky8460 3 года назад

Growing up in a Mexican household I saw these all my life and I didn’t really know why they were used as sponges but I am obsessed with the smell of them .

@crissy1764 3 года назад

Ahh I live like 5 min away from Reedley! And I never knew about this farm!! I’m going to have to look into this 👏🏽👏🏽

@AceViper141 3 года назад

Im Brazilian and my mum love to have these around the bathroom she has a lot of them with nice soap that goes with it we never use nylon sponges only luffa and its dead cheap and more durable than nylon and we use it because its biodegradable...

@Miojo_San 3 года назад

I guess we're almost literally the same.... *Brazilian and use luffa sponges*

@HerrNinguem 3 года назад

suddenly caralho!

@Miojo_San 3 года назад

@@HerrNinguem *não xinga moço*

@Feuervix 3 года назад

@@HerrNinguem porra moço tenha respeito caralho

@llpBR 3 года назад

Travesseiro de paina também?

@phileenepeagch1807 5 лет назад

I grew up with scrubbing our body with these sponges back in Philippines. It’s very amazing finding out how it’s made 😍😍

@HieroOnymos 5 лет назад

Yeah, we call them also tanggal-libag sponge. XD

@joysantiago3608 5 лет назад

@@HieroOnymos i like that tanggal-libag word😂😂

@sarahmacalalad9229 5 лет назад

@@HieroOnymos Patola

@HieroOnymos 5 лет назад

@@sarahmacalalad9229 I know ma'am, pero sa pinatuyong patola tawag dyan sa'min tanggal-libag sponge. XD

@lester7958 4 года назад

@primrose_m 3 года назад

Have one of these at home, never occurred to me that I could these in the kitchen for dishes.

@pujilup_putarjilatcelup 3 года назад

This spongy cucumber is a delicious vegetables to eat when still young, we usually cook it stirfry with little prawns 🤤

@chanderkantamehra2344 2 года назад

Oh ..we call this Tori in India...when raw eat as vegetable.. used to leave it to grow to make luffa and seeds out if it...during our childhood used for taking bath,cleaning utensils and other household things..

@ifyousubtomeyouwillgainabs6072 5 лет назад

*what did you do to spongebob?*

@danielguan563 5 лет назад

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@schmadeke 5 лет назад

I feed luffa to my chinchillas

@yudikurina1871 5 лет назад

SpongeBob is synthetic, and not natural. that is where his edgyness comes from dx

@bellenesatan 5 лет назад

@@yudikurina1871 he's a natural sea sponge.

@craftybeans9905 5 лет назад

Yudi Kurina Who said he’s synthetic

@minecraftkunoichi7383 5 лет назад

I was today years old when I found out that loofas were grown on a farm

@Tiger_dos 5 лет назад

Minecraft Kunoichi please stop saying that phrase.

@susandetiquez6120 5 лет назад

I thought they were made from hard silk hahahaha

@minecraftkunoichi7383 5 лет назад

@Nikki Torres WHAT

@wennywat3716 5 лет назад

it is edible before it fully ripe.. the most delicious vege ever.. sauteed it with dried shrimps and some chili.. oh..heaven.. or you can make a loofa soup.. we call it 'petola' here in malaysia..

@sammshoyu8434 5 лет назад

This meme is kinda overused.

@nobodyhere4667 3 года назад

Lol I use to worry we were harvesting sea creatures to bath with! Glad i finally decided to look into how they are made/grow. Love that they are grown like cucumbers. :)

@Wodenseyes 10 месяцев назад

I grow them at my homestead. I harvest around 100-150 a year and when I make homemade soap, I put half a loofa into the soap before it hardens and make soap bars and scrubbers for everything you use soap for. I even make a mint charcoal scrubber for the face. I love loofas

@alyallflags2558 5 лет назад

There are here in Mexico!! And are free!!

@KhromeXx 5 лет назад

Really?? As in Ain't nothing really free

@MYEofficiaI 5 лет назад

Well here in Chihuahua those ain’t free soo you’re half wrong

@pomom123 5 лет назад

Efrain Garcia maybe not anymore because pretty much everyone now is out to make money off anything.

@stevenzaur 5 лет назад

Lol i guess they are over south america too, cuz i remenber using this to play as a Child

@krow000666 5 лет назад

A huevo, aquí se llaman zacates

@LLCL2012 3 года назад

Latinos: We have been using those plants for centuries. Asians: Hold my beer.

@emptyricebowl 3 года назад

*sake, plum wine, soju, rice wine, lemongrass wine, etc although beer works too

@mavisgrace5403 3 года назад

Caucasians: Hey guys look what we found “Centuries late to the party”

@DBT1007 3 года назад

Caucasians use sea sponge for their sponge. Hence the name is sponge in English. Or maybe the opposite? They discover sponge first and then call that creature as sea sponge? Idk.. And because they use sea sponge, the sponge population decrease greatly in the past. Maybe in the Renaissance era. That's why they searching sponge alternatives and now today we have synthetic sponge. Made from plastic. So sad... Hope people go back using either sea sponge or this sponge plant. Now people have technology n knowledge to make a farm in almost every environmental condition. No more synthetic sponge! (btw, my sponge is cellulose sponge. It's from wood cellulose. Biodegradable)

@forgodsakestopplz7944 3 года назад

@@DBT1007 know how toxic some sea sponges are and how stupid ppl can be, i bet is safer to stick with the earth ones

@efrainoctavio3506 3 года назад

The plant is native to asia, so I guess asian people used them way before

@wrldoverheaven803 3 года назад

I've seen this in my recommendations 4 times over the course of a year - fine, I'll give in.

@Amanda-zn7ox 4 месяца назад

I was delighted to see that my new luffa on a stick for showering is one of these plants! It had been compressed in the packaging, but when I took it in the shower and saw it expand, I recognized it immediately!

@ankitsonu2511 4 года назад

Did you know, We can eat them too. When we were younger we used to eat them when the fruit is young. Make curry out of it. If we needed loofah we used to leave them to mature.

@kawaiilittlemonster3478 4 года назад

Wow i love curry~😍🌸

@shubham4845 3 года назад

Hindi main kya bolte hain isko?

@ankitsonu2511 3 года назад

It's called Nenua or Jhingli where I live

@Gb83197 3 года назад

@@shubham4845 gilki

@siddharth2796 3 года назад

@MysteriousOklahoma tf what

@ComfySunday 5 лет назад

Can you eat it

@jjjulianne 5 лет назад

ComfySunday Well it’s a sponge..

@kelseycoca 5 лет назад

Only if you chase it with dish soap

@redxdragon91 5 лет назад

in the state where it is still unripe or green, yes. it can be used for sauteed vegetable dishes.

@slav1453 5 лет назад

ComfySunday no lol

@slav1453 5 лет назад

Patricia Sevilla you’re right my curios ass opened one before it was dry and it looked like a type of squash or something

@hantamthieu 3 года назад

I grew up eating this. Probably every countryside house grows this, so easy to grow and we wash dishes with its sponge long long time ago.

@VictorCampos87 3 года назад

In Brazil I prefer this than syntethic sponges to take a bath 'cause it have a good touch on the skin.

@roundabout4.d766 3 года назад

Elas tbm tiram a sujeira mais facil

@liliessijeuni7774 4 года назад

Young luffa is very delicious made soup or sauteed. It is soft and slightly sweet.

@Elyhhk 3 года назад

@sonospiacente3334 3 года назад

@yuyuy666 3 года назад

@redDL89 3 года назад

Stir fried luffa is so good.

@orchidslilliesandtulips 3 года назад

@@sonospiacente3334 girl you dont need to comment that..

@joseochoa244 5 лет назад

I grew up using the sponges we used to have plants in our back yard in Mexico

@linnmey2034 5 лет назад

Jose Ochoa that is soo cool

@jasmindelacruz3667 5 лет назад

YESSS!!!!

@mceliagrimaldom605 4 года назад

I did too!

@xx_d_a_i_s_y_xx6688 4 года назад

Same

@alemancastro276 4 года назад

Yes nosotro tambien teniamos una guia (planta que se enrreda )

@shirleylake7738 3 года назад

Thank you for the video. Good luck with your farming.

@blackfootcherokeeirishwhit2390 3 года назад

I have one. And i wash it with laundry and it never loses its shape or anything. Its my favorite body washer. Amd it exfoliates and i am hooked!!

@lulunneitham3760 3 года назад

Where i live this plant grows in every household's kitchen garden. We eat it as veggies while they are young.

@user-iu2zo7hu7f 3 года назад

That sounds kinda nasty

@LeonArgent 3 года назад

@@user-iu2zo7hu7f it's basically a cucumber

@buddhapiyao1315 3 года назад

@@user-iu2zo7hu7f This vegetable belongs to the "gourd" family. Ridge gourd, bitter gourd are some of the other kinds. when they are very tender, just the size of a small cucumber, they make good edible veggies and when they grow just a bit more, the pulp gets a bit fibrous and is excellent to clean your gut. in Indian villages where they grow this as a vegetable, sometimes they deliberately cook a few slightly fibrous ones to get rid of constipation. its only when you let it grow over a foot, its not edible anymore and farmers let it dry on the plant for loofahs.

@akeilo_azore1579 3 года назад

Yeah bro, same here in the caribbean

@harmandersingh9076 3 года назад

Same here

@fionalin5559 5 лет назад

My grandparents actually grow them.

@annic7995 5 лет назад

Don't they feel good when you break off the skin? 😃 I miss that. 🙀

@emocutie4 5 лет назад

So did my grandparents growing up as a child there pretty cool

@TheCadalee 5 лет назад

Dudeee yess

@zhangwei4622 5 лет назад

Same with mine, it also makes for great soup.

@sk8alldamnday595 5 лет назад

@@zhangwei4622 how the hell you make soup with that?? Lol

@akankshyapattanayak4158 3 года назад

This tree was in our garden when I was a kid ...It tastes bitter ..😁😁 Love to see the marketing of this organic luffa .. Love from India 🇮🇳🙏

@patriciakaufmann2229 2 года назад

WOW, THANKS FOR SHARING!!!

@coco1255 5 лет назад

Here in japan,elementary schools, grows plants depending on your grade level for (1st grade 🍅 2nd 🌷 3rd 🥔 4th cucumber 🥒 etc... ) for me when I was in 5th grade we grew that plant 🌱 and peeled the skin, then the teachers cut it so students can bring them back home. I miss Japanese elementary school 🏫

@Funkoh 5 лет назад

In my kindergarten school,we play and learn nothing but we do learn that snack is bad and you should never eat it

@Tootisepop 5 лет назад

@@Funkoh ikr

@animus444k 5 лет назад

@@*Drifty * I don't understand why Americans think someones lucky for living in Japan until they move there and realize that they had maybe around 12 hours of sleep for the whole week and would be shamed by your superiors if you tried to take a day off. The grass is always greener on the other side.

@vykeschofield725 5 лет назад

In grade 3 in Canada we also grew potatoes, but not the rest of it. I would have missed Japan Elementary school too if I had gone through it,

@husseinn.3851 5 лет назад

Elementary school in Japan looked so cool , I'm sad I never get to go ...

@zoeyjoziee8885 5 лет назад

FINE ILL WATCH IT RU-vid UGHH

@iknowyourerightbut6246 5 лет назад

I can feel you bro

@bodine. 5 лет назад

Fuentes I swear bro

@rogertorrez1798 5 лет назад

Ikr 🤦🏽‍♂️

@Raemnant 5 лет назад

And thus, here I am

@caseyarena5943 5 лет назад

you see those three tiny little dots next to the video? click it and click "Not Interested" Now you dont need to tell everyone about the fact you watched the video.

@eyesofheaven9347 3 года назад

Where I'm from, we even cook these while it's young. The ones that mature or dries are used as sponges.

@jakimgrace4928 Год назад

Wow this is amazing keep up the wonderful fun work

@meep8031 5 лет назад

Bruh every Mexican be having one of these at home 😂

@luciamaria7780 5 лет назад

The Americans thinks they owns everything smh

@luciamaria7780 5 лет назад

there are tons of Luffas in indonesia too

@meep8031 5 лет назад

@@luciamaria7780 wow that's pretty offensive to some ppl considering that not all Americans think that way smh

@dextmccool9953 5 лет назад

@@luciamaria7780 He never said that Americans owned this he said the opposite.

@Grandiloquent 5 лет назад

every African has these at home too lmao

@biismala 3 года назад

In México it name are “estropajos” and are used for centuries here and Latinoamérica.

@timeladie 3 года назад

Americans discover estropajos.

@the_oky 3 года назад

Dude, I am from Brazil and I NEVER KNEW THEY COME FROM A PLANT

@the_oky 3 года назад

Btw in Brazil its esponjas actually

@alexismarmol305 3 года назад

Estropajo is correct . Also here un Dominican Rep.

@Louis-kw6yk 3 года назад

@@the_oky omg, I'm from Brazil too, but like these sponges are so common, they literally grow everywhere

@josephrozario9541 2 года назад

My grandmother had a luffa vine and we used to harvest and use at home.. very good for bath time and they really last a long time...

@iris.flower1112 3 года назад

Ohhh yes I have one o these and my mom always uses them for cleaning, their super good to use!

@spicysushi1232 3 года назад

I’ve been lied to my whole life. I thought this was a dried up sea creature.

@nikhilreddy8550 3 года назад

Yeah, why did I think the same as well. There has to be some truth to it, right?

@spicysushi1232 3 года назад

@@nikhilreddy8550 I think some are made from sea sponges but I thought they all were 😂

@nikhilreddy8550 3 года назад

@@spicysushi1232 Yeah, I did google it now as well. Guess, we both made the same wrong assumption. 😋

@spicysushi1232 3 года назад

@@nikhilreddy8550 I always felt bad and never bought them. Now I can since I know a life wasn’t taken >:D

@pedriinhopedriinho299 3 года назад

What? How dumb are you? Sea creatures dont have seeds.

@reeseyme9613 5 лет назад

those sponge are biodegradable until they put plastic wrapping over it...

@pmteaches 5 лет назад

Not thinking they need to be wrapped in plastic, but they probably feel covering it keeps out bugs. No one will want to buy it with bugs crawling thru it.

@viviancharm8505 5 лет назад

Reesey Me depends on the brand. Been buying mine without any plastic packaging.

@simmimon 5 лет назад

A lot of sponge, soap sellers etc use a biodegradable plastic that is a shrink wrap.

@Dre12008 5 лет назад

Who cares. Would you rather have a plastic sponge or a luffa?

@tobikms1709 5 лет назад

@JayLeeBeanz depends how much you use it, but I can imagine that a whole sponge lasts around a year.

@pb23nov 3 года назад

I remembered playing with these sponges 😂😎and also my parents would take a lot with them from our grandparents garden

@amilton1015 3 года назад

Thanks for so good information

@borisxer 3 года назад

we actually eat that in The Philippines and is considered as Vegetable. We also use it as scrub when it is old.

@zarss02 2 года назад

Sure bro. It is a vegetable to eat but they grow for spong

@olivias4911 5 лет назад

Why do I always find myself watching how it’s made at 3am

@pastelheart1778 5 лет назад

Same with me

@jonny45k44 5 лет назад

Probably to tire out your brain is my guess.

@theonlyrealcdub 5 лет назад

3am now lol

@jrproductions5612 5 лет назад

Because that's when you were made 😏

@chris52209 5 лет назад

Your not the only one i do it too! But at 2:00 AM.

@MsKariSmith 2 года назад

Great talk, thank you

@120paj 2 года назад

We had these plants and it was highly used in households everywhere in the Caribbean 🌻

@chekyism 2 года назад

Had some in my backyard, but all of a sudden Di Merica finally a catch up. We always thinking we are behind the times, story come to bum. 😅

@Corona8586 3 года назад

Buddy they grow everywhere in Honduras. I grew washing myself with them even till now. My family brings them to me from Honduras.

@safraniaa4899 3 года назад

They grow everywhere now

@checkmyplaylist6879 5 лет назад

*what the h word, is that SpongeBob?*

@youmaybehighstrungbutimlok1601 5 лет назад

Yes it is

@LizzyyAnimates 5 лет назад

H W O R D

@Gobblewonker 5 лет назад

Check My Playlist woah there buddy, might wanna watch that mouth of yours

@woowoowoowoo916 5 лет назад

Check My Playlist I’m gonna say the h word do you dare me? Heck

@Noon-ej2ds 5 лет назад

This is so innocent XD

@nicos514 2 года назад

Love it I grow my own!! Amazing

@ambrosia417 3 года назад

Very cool! Unbeknownst to me, I realized one of the pans I ordered came with a sponge -- and now know it's a luffa sponge!

@madiala4613 3 года назад

We have these trees in my village These sponges are actually used for showering here in Uganda

@emanuelcarvalho8510 3 года назад

and most important its eco-friendly

@MsHeavenly 3 года назад

I don't use any other sponge. This sponge scrubs the toxicity of the day out of ya

@auburnivingroomga 3 года назад

@@MsHeavenly FACTS. and ayye uganda gangg

@hanniballecter7103 3 года назад

Same here in East India, never liked the nylon sponges, these luffa sponges are slightly abrasive but get all the dead cells off the skin.

@klaii7196 3 года назад

@@MsHeavenly Is the person in your profile picture you? Dam you are beautiful!

@jadecummings8093 5 лет назад

Wow, this is so cool! I've never seen that before.

@JG-lv1wq 5 лет назад

Jade Cummings we had a tree in our backyard :)

@poptartlover6517 5 лет назад

Jade Cummings then you’re an idiot

@TotanDas1991 5 лет назад

in India, it is a wild climbing tree and I use it since my childhood for free.

@JG-lv1wq 5 лет назад

Poptart Lover Why are you being so mean?! These trees are common in Asia that’s why we know about it. There are a lot of things in this world that might be new and fascinating for you! Just because people in other parts of the world don’t know about it, doesn’t mean they are idiots!!

@kenthien353 5 лет назад

This is the ecologic sponge Asians used to have while washing our dishes. Pretty nostalgic for me.

@akshada01akki 3 года назад

I used it when I was very young at my village and I did not value it then. It was so readily available, it grew everywhere

@Valeria.... 3 года назад

These look fun to peel off

@atsukorichards1675 3 года назад

Yes. This is called Hechima (ヘチマ) in Japan, and has been used as a sponge, especially to scrub one's body. Love to see it is in America! I still remember that we planted them to observe as a science project in the 2nd or 3rd year of the elementary school.

@jeyart94 3 года назад

Literally every ethnic person knows what that sponge is.

@elcompagenito3250 3 года назад

Every Hispanic

@qaaris4280 3 года назад

Well, this video is targeted at the people who _don't_ know what it is.

@amaisniazi1809 3 года назад

*laughs in south Asian countries *

@joatanpereira4272 3 года назад

Everyone is ethnic, what do you mean?

@Kara_Kay_Eschel 3 года назад

@@joatanpereira4272 Think they mean non-white/European.

@wilsonherbito9490 3 года назад

I love Luffa use every bath, your skin make softer, white skin,and fine lines.

@tinytt854 3 года назад

I like being Black. Guess I'll pass.

@cj4456 3 года назад

My cousins and I would often bathe in Rivers using Luffa sponges. Ah, the good old days.

@Nokdu490 3 года назад

We call the vegetable "Patola" here in the Philippines, and we also make it a soup.

@marshdidit1676 3 года назад

OMG THATS PATOLA?- I'VE BEEN EATING THAT FOR YEARS AND I DIDNT KNOW WE HAD ONE HANGING IN THE CR

@miradaewhitespell2790 3 года назад

Hala legit haha! Very surprising.

@axcolleen 3 года назад

I didn't know aaaaaa

@antithesis2211 3 года назад

Damn! I didn’t know, thanks. We eat those things before it turns into a sponge! PATOLA An amazing plan!

@antithesis2211 3 года назад

LMAO! I just asked my mom about this plant, and she said it’s the vegetable she puts with the miso soup and shrimp. Also, she also knows that they call it loofah here in the states. I thought all along those things came from the sea.

@macalozhebelev 5 лет назад

I DONT EVEN KNOW THAT WAS MADE LIKE THAT

@OKae88 5 лет назад

Grown, not made

@Saiputera 5 лет назад

Cause you are a dumb Kgaypop fan

@nikijasminee 5 лет назад

@@Saiputera and that is totally irrelevant

@Saiputera 5 лет назад

@@nikijasminee also i don't think is irrelevant when in fact 90% of saudi ecomony is depenece on oil

@hanann13 5 лет назад

@@nikijasminee I guess we just have to ignore him?? Like, jeez his answers I-

@BouksFlawsStuff747 2 года назад

Amazing thank you for sharing 😊

@jspr601 3 года назад

The cat in the background: YOu served me well. Here is your daily award, a sponge.

@priyankatiwari1829 3 года назад

I have also made lots of sponges. a vegetable is sown in my village, out of that this sponge comes out. i'm very happy to see them doing this too....

@williamjames9515 3 года назад

Terrific! I wish you success.

@polarweis 5 лет назад

2:53 do i need to say anything

@leirawhitehart1236 5 лет назад

Apparently not.

@daboiwisper 5 лет назад

Hahaha 🍆🍆

@EdwardOberon 5 лет назад

🥒🥒🥒🥒

@azrael4457 5 лет назад

@@daboiwisper How does an aubergine relate to the video?

@daboiwisper 5 лет назад

@@azrael4457 it's an unofficial emoji for a body part

@s.d.b.5803 5 лет назад

These things are free in India. They destroy other plants so we cut them. 😁😁😁

@lamoskgr 5 лет назад

Wowwww! Really?

@anonymous.m.1599 5 лет назад

Yeah exactly 😂😂 I have four in my bathroom

@zoyadhar 5 лет назад

no, it's one of the vegetables. My grandmothers grow them in their garden.

@beautifulvillian405 5 лет назад

It's natural beauty product for skin, isn't it? I use it on my skin and it's the best moisturizer. I was shocked after saw the begin of the video that they use it for dishes. Or... Did I miss something in life? I've never saw someone here use it do dishes before.

@anonymous.m.1599 5 лет назад

@@beautifulvillian405 lol neither me, but this is a good idea tho. I will start washing dishes too.