How to Use a Loofah to Maintain Healthy Glowing Skin

Absolutely essential in skin care is a regular exfoliation to remove accumulating dead skin cells to maintain healthy, glowing, radiant skin.  Gentle exfoliation removes the outer layer to reveal newer skin beneath, thereby unclogging pores and keeping skin clean, resulting in a radiant youthful appearance.

Some loofah facts:

·      Regular loofah exfoliation is effective in removing rough spots on the knees, ankles, palms of the hands, and feet.

·      Loofah exfoliation can help control body and foot odor.

·      Loofah is natural, biodegradable and a renewable resource made from a fast growing vegetable.

Loofah use steps:

1.     Wet the loofah to soften it, then lather it with your favorite product, be it body wash or bar soap.

2.     Starting at the area between your neck and chest, gently but firmly move the loofah over the skin in circular motions. Work your way down to your ankles. Don’t forget to use the loofah on the heels and soles of your feet. But be careful if standing in a slippery shower.

3.     In the mornings, rinse off with cool water to close the skin pores and make you feel refreshed and awake. In the evenings before going to bed, use warm water instead to induce a restful sleep.

For the facial exfoliation, use a special face loofah made from softer loofah material.

Available in Malaysia from all JustLife stores

 Or order online.

 Loofah Plants

 Harvested Dry Loofah

 Soap Bar Loofah

 Face Loofah

FROM VEGETABLE GARDEN TO BATHROOM

Many people do not realize that bathroom loofah originate from a vegetable garden, many assume loofah are some type of sea sponge.

An essential bathing accessory, loofah exfoliate dead skin cells and improve circulation of blood throughout the body. Everyone wants to look younger with smoother and less wrinkled skin, and thorough cleansing combined with gently removing the top layer of dead epidermis cells with a good quality loofah can achieve this.

Indochine Natural started growing loofah in cooperation with 50 farmers in Viet Nam during 2006 as part of our Fair Trade activities. The loofah are grown in large fields on bamboo trellises. 

This vegetable is very popular in Vietnamese cooking, therefore the farmers harvested some of the green loofah to sell in local vegetable markets, and dried others on the vine for our loofah products.

The loofah are left to dry on the vines then harvested, seeds and outer husk removed, and then washed clean. This provides a lot of local employment which is greatly appreciated. 

 

The clean and dried loofah are then counted and tied into bundles.

Next, they are transported back to our production facility tied to the back of motorcycles....... our harvests were often 20,000 loofah so the workers tended to pile as many as they could onto each motorcycle.

 

Back in our production facility our workers would cut and sew the loofah into a range of bathroom loofah products.

Our Indochine Natural loofah products include our soap bar loofah and face loofah.

You can purchase our loofah products from all JustLife stores  or online