Loofah Sponge Soap | 3 Soap Designs using Loofah Sponge | Tutorial Tuesday Ep. 151 

I'm so happy to hear you found it helpful! Personally, I've found I like using the soaps best when the sponge is lying on its side. I hope your next farmers market is a huge success!

Thanks for the tip!

Glad you enjoyed it!

And they feel so nice to use too! Sometimes it seems like ecofriendly options are missing some of the qualities I'm used to, but loofahs always feel like an upgrade to the synthetic options!

Great question that I don't have a good answer to! 😆 The vines get super tangled on the porch rails and fence panel that I grow them on, so it's hard to tell which loofah is growing on which vine. But I'm in a loofah growing group on FaceBook (yes, I'm that obsessed with this plant haha) and from what others have posted you could get as many as 20 loofahs on a single vine. Of course, you can get as few as zero loofahs for a variety of reasons (starting too late in the year, no pollinators, bad soil, etc). As a rough estimate of how I did in 2021, I planted 16 seeds along a fence panel arch. Not all of those vines produced loofah (a handful didn't transplant from indoors well) but I got around 60 loofahs from those vines. So if we say 12 of the 16 vines produced loofahs, that's 60 loofahs / 12 vines or about 5 per vine. In reality, the spread was probably more like only 3 loofahs from one vine, 10 loofahs from another, etc. But that's probably a rough average in my case. I also might have over-planted that area. I had one random vine pop up in a garden box with good soil, and that vine produced about 14 loofahs. Not sure how helpful this info is. I am planning to do a video series hopefully in March documenting my loofah season from 2021 and sharing some different tips and tricks I've learned from growing them. I'm definitely not an expert at growing loofah by any means. But I've had some success growing loofah, and they're such a rewarding plant to grow! 😄

Dozen at minimum!

Yes, I've avoided using this soap bar in the sink or shower. I think it'd be bad for septic and a city's water system. I use the chopped loofah bars for outdoors by the hose. That way, the pieces just get washed into the yard and decompose there.

I'm not sure if either of these ship to Durban, but you might try looking on Amazon or Etsy.

I have lots of extra seeds i can send you some

Didn't now that was an option! I'll keep that in mind for the future.

Haha, now that you say that, I can totally see it! 😂