These Loofah slippers are Handmade.They come in assorted colors.Loofah is a nitrogen-fixing plant that looks like a large zucchini before it is processed. The Loofah Project helps farmers and other workers in the Manduriacos Gran Valley, and seeks to have this area be a buffer zone between destruction and rain forest areas.

• Extra Large Measures - 11'' long x 4'' wide 
• Large Measures - 10 5/8'' long x 3 3/8'' wide
• Medium Measures - 9 3/4'' long x 3 3/4'' wide
• Small Measures - 9'' long x 3 3/8'' wide
• Extra Small Measures - 7'' long x 2 5/8'' wide
• Baby Measures - 5 3/4'' long x 2 3/8'' wide 

Handmade in Ecuador and fair trade imported.

The Lovely Luffa's Versatility

There's an amazing variety of uses for luffa. Besides being clever bath accessories, they're great as pot scrubbers, for no-stick pans. During World War II, the resilient fiber was used in surgical operations, as a filtering material in the Navy's steam and diesel engines, and because of its insulating properties in Army helmet linings. Luffa gourds have also been processed into potholders, doormats, gloves, sandals, and stuffing for mattresses and saddles.

The plant has served for hundreds of years as a healing herb as well. Luffa seeds are cleansing, and the leaves are used by the Chinese in a treatment for skin diseases. In Japan, a formulation made from luffa is sold commercially as a skin softener. And, according to a sixteenth-century Chinese herbalist, "The fresh fruit is considered to be cooling and beneficial to the intestines."

It would be challenging to name any other single plant that can be put to more uses than the lovely luffa both within the body and without.