Earth Therapeutics Earth Elementals Loofah, Body Scrubber (Pack of 12)

Usually, I use those poofy loofahs that expand in size due to looseness after a month or two, and I decided to switch to a scrubber like this to see if it is better. I did hear that it's good for your skin and all of its mystical powers. It's great that it's "earth-friendly," too, but seeing that it's made in China doesn't really help with the whole eco-friendly vibe.This doesn't foam up much and I feel like by the time I'm scrubbing my lower half of the body, it's already out of soap. I use about twice as much soap as I did before (probably a total of 1.5 tbsp if I had to measure). Maybe it's just that the foaming part of body washing is a psychological part of the process, but I still do feel like it would be nice to have more foam. I do feel clean, but it's hard to go rough on the skin when there's leg hairs with potential of pullage/plucking from the loofah. Unfortunately, I have about 11 more of these, so I'll find a way and never go back, or not find a way and ask my leg hairs for forgiveness... for the next 2 years.

The quality is great, but as others have mentioned, these are a little smaller than you would probably expect. We make soap disks with the loofah embedded in it out of these. We slice it into aprox. 1" thick slices, so the length doesn't really matter. The smallish diameter is perfect for our mold, a 3" pvc pipe.One thing I'd like to mention, beware extra low sounding prices for this item. Amazon is listing this as a 12 pack. We ordered from one vendor, and got a 1 pack. I was able to get them to refund shipping so the price I paid wasn't totally unreasonable. I've contacted 2 others and one of them admitted they were selling these one at a time, and dropped their listing. I haven't heard back from the other yet. I emailed them 5 minutes before writing this. If you see a price significantly lower than Amazon's on this item, send the vendor a message (click on their name in the item listing, scroll down till you see "contact this seller") making sure to send them the ASIN number from the product details section of the listing. Save yourself some trouble and make sure they are selling a dozen, not one. Or you can just order from Amazon and be sure you are getting a dozen.

I bought these loofahs because they were much cheaper than the competition. A loofah is a loofah is a loofah I thought and while that's mostly true, I found these have a weird chemical smell for a few days which I hadn't encountered with loofahs before. Also, these don't last as long as other loofahs I've tried, but I grant that may be due to my personal usage. As others have noted, these are smaller than the norm, but that wasn't an issue for me.

For years I bought loofah from many different stores. Never bought one that was not firm and did not soften when wet. Suddenly the good ones became hard to find in-store. The ones I could find turned to mush when wet! So I was hoping these were the real deal, since they are supposed to be "natural", but they weren't. They don't lather well and get way too soft. A towel works better than these for bathing! Will not buy again and would not recommend.

I bought these because they were more economical than singles at stores. Just as I have found with store ones, though, some are very stiff and don't soften with hot water. Others are perfect. It's a toss up, but I expected that too, since I had noticed it with singles bought at different times. I did discover there is a 'trick' to softening them up with a little bleach in water - works fine.

I have 12 of these little loofah. They are small and not really as rough as I would like them to be. I will use them but don't love them.

The product arrived quickly and is more or less what I expected. The loofahs are shorter than I thought they would be--I thought maybe they would be a few inches longer, but that is not really important. Virtually a life supply --given my age--of the product that I love.

I unfortunately can't comment on the product itself, as I promptly returned it lest I actually end up paying this price for a single four inch long loofah, when I anticipated receiving 12. Alas, it looked like a loofah that would have done the job.