The word 'loofah' is correct and it is commonly used in written English.
It refers to a type of plant that is used as an exfoliating sponge in skincare products. Example: I always make sure to include a loofah in my shower routine to keep my skin smooth and soft.
Sex is "like shoving a loofah into a Mason jar".
For years it has been divided into offices, one of which was the director Sir Nicholas Serota's private bathroom, complete with tub and loofah.
The prototypes have already been likened to a golden cheese-grater, a plutocrat's loofah or even a bling wastepaper basket, but come 2012 the London Olympic torch will be virtually guaranteed the distinction of becoming the hottest item on eBay.
Every day in the Pandaw dining room we would be served this key ingredient of Vietnamese cooking, from banh xeo, a rice crêpe stuffed with bean sprouts, vegetables, herbs and tofu, to stir-fried Halong Bay prawns and spring loofah with fragrant steamed rice.
Compared with the pneumatic tattoo-and-tan-line porn that the Valley turns out these days, or even with the steamier passages in the sexual-harassment suit filed against Bill O'Reilly last week (one wishes that Wood had lived long enough to make a movie called "Loofah!"), the squalor of the contortions onscreen seems almost quaint.
The loofah and the sponge were the dried-out bodies, the skeletons, of living things.
And so loofahs evolved to reach every blemish.
The bathroom itself contained a hairdryer, makeup mirror and Minus 417 brand toiletries, including luxury soaps with loofahs inside, made with Dead Sea minerals.
But for tired, aging, dull skin, the true facial grits are real quicker picker uppers, as long as you handle them with kid gloves, not scratchy mitts or loofahs.
Best buys are loofahs, dried hibiscus, dates and halva.
But mechanical exfoliation – that's loofahs, scrubs or microdermabrasion – can irritate the skin to the point of increasing or triggering post-inflammatory pigmentation.
