If you are using a loofah, do this immediately or you will prepare for the worst
Who does not love a good scrubbing?
Nothing feels better than to use the shower with a loofah to slough the skin. Not only does it allow you to scrub, but it leaves your skin smooth as a baby’s skin. And the loofahs come in many colors, some with special designs.
You can hang them on the water, making scrubbing fast and easy , and you easily get rid of ᴅᴇᴀᴅ sᴋɪɴ ᴄᴇʟʟs that cause dry and irritating skin. And you get a bonus – it helps the circulation of blood, so scrub to get a clear and glowing look.
Sounds like loofahs are the right way when it comes to maintaining a healthy and bright skin, right?
Well, according to dermatologists, this could not be further from the truth. In fact, 98% of them recommend us to throw the loofah in the trash immediately.
A new health warning has been issued by J. Matthew Knight of the Knight Dermatology Institute – and it involves your own bath shower puffs. Turns out that your dead skin cells tend to get stuck under all that puffy layers, encouraging bacterial growth!
And it can happen in a short period of time – couple of hours, in fact!
This could mean that open wounds are even more prone to infections – a cut as small as a razor cut is also harmful to your skin’s epidermal layer!
Knight advises that bath puff users should replace their puffs frequently, and leave them to dry somewhere else other than their bathrooms – a dryer environment is preferable.
In addition to cleaning your bath puffs, an alternative is bath loofahs, which do not have wire layers that will trap bacteria and dead skin as easily as a bath puff.
Check out this video below!
