Review title is Throw away your loofah! [SEP] Better than loofah! But aggressive, so not for everybody. It could be used as a torture devise if you scrub too hard. Read the directions: get it wet then apply a little soap to it outside the shower stream. Use it on wet skin outside the shower stream. That way, a little soap goes a looooong way. If you apply and scrub under the shower stream, it will rinse the soap right out of the scrub. These are inherently more sanitary than loofah and a quick rinse after using is all the cleaning it needs.