Review title is Buyer beware: chemical smell & falls apart when touching water [SEP] As soon as I got a little water on this loofah, it fell off the stick. Once the loofah was wet, a petrochemical smell was emanating from it so strongly that I did not feel safe using it. As a natural product, it should not reek of bad chemicals. I’m currently soaking the loofah in a baking soda solution in hopes of salvaging the sponge and sewing it into the stick in some way.