Gross, Spiders and Health: Loofah

Loofah

By Peter Parker - 30/08/2016 23:19 - United States - Redlands

Today, after a few days of getting what seemed like an odd, scattered rash every time I showered, I finally figured out the problem. It turns out I wasn't just allergic to all the different soap I tried. Apparently a family of very angry spiders have decided to make my loofah their new home. FML

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By ewwww - 26/05/2013 17:55 - United States - Oak Lawn

Today, I found out where the mysterious bites on my back keep coming from. It's not every day you find an earwig in your loofah. FML

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By dre_bro11 - 06/11/2011 12:17 - Australia

Today, I found the same spider which I had let live yesterday hidden in my bath towel. I didn't find it until it was smeared on my face. FML

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By SpideyFace - 19/03/2011 01:36 - Canada

Today, with water in my eyes, I stepped out of the shower and rubbed my face with a towel. When I looked in the mirror, I realized there had been a giant spider on the towel. Its guts and legs were smeared all over my face. FML

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Stressed out

By BK2017 - 29/01/2017 22:00 - United States - Orlando

Today, after an extremely stressful day, I took a hot bath when I got home. I used my little sister's bubble bath to make it more enjoyable and relaxing. I then broke out in hives. I guess I'm allergic to bubble bath. FML

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By Anonymous - 20/11/2014 15:23 - United States - Tracy

Today, it took a whole half hour of scratching my head before I realized with horror that the weird tickling sensation I'd been feeling was actually a spider crawling around in my hair. FML

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By Anonymous - 06/10/2009 21:31 - United States

Today, while I was in the shower I noticed a short, black hair on my loofa. I ignored it and lathered up my entire body with it. When I put it back down, a roach crawled out of it. What I thought was a black hair was in fact its antenna. FML

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Freakout

By emmey - 23/07/2009 19:43 - United States

Today, while showering at my boyfriend's house early this morning, I saw a huge black spider on the wall. I'm allergic to spiders, so in my disorientation I ran out of the shower screaming, slipped, sprained my wrist, and bruised my tailbone. Turns out the spider was a clump of hair. My hair. FML

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By poisonivyandbigfoot - 10/09/2017 20:30 - United States - Denver

Today, I woke up with a rash all across my body. Last night, my boyfriend and I got it on in some bushes, and it seems one of those was poison ivy. FML

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By Anonymous - 03/06/2014 08:56 - United Kingdom - Dunmow

Today, despite years of paranoid checking, I forgot to check my towel for spiders after my shower. Two crawled onto me, and I'm pretty sure there's one somewhere in my hair. FML

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By DamnHippieSoap - 29/08/2018 17:30 - United States - Estero

Today, I discovered my washcloths smelled like mushrooms. As I'm allergic to mold, I panicked and spent all day washing every towel and sheet in the house. At last, I went to take a shower and discovered that the mushroom smell was actually emanating from my $5-a-bar organic soap. FML

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hellobobismyname 24

Wednesday 31 August 2016 12:38

I fail to see how a) you couldn't see a whole family of spiders living in your loofah and b) how the family of spiders lived through multiple sessions of you putting soap and water on the loofah and rubbing it vigorously all over your body.

alex_gen 38

Wednesday 31 August 2016 12:35

Loofahman, Loofahman, does whatever a Loofah can.

Comments

LiLMAMA0523 35

Wednesday 31 August 2016 16:14

*shudders* I hope you burned that loofah

Sauhau 6

Wednesday 31 August 2016 17:24

whats a loofah?

zp111 10

Wednesday 31 August 2016 17:49

Those puffy things you wash your body with

zp111 10

Wednesday 31 August 2016 17:43

this is why people are told to change them constantly

SecondBee 12

Wednesday 31 August 2016 22:49

That has more to do with the fact that they stay wet for a long time and are kept in a humid environment, and aren't sanitised. Makes them a happy place for bacteria. Which, coincidentally, could be the source of the rash.

cupcakebruh 21

Thursday 1 September 2016 7:10

This is why I just never use loofahs.. I just use a washcloth like you're supposed to, and I wash the washcloth about once a week.

trucker2 33

Friday 2 September 2016 2:43

Ummm ... Once a week ?

xoteeshaox 22

Friday 2 September 2016 5:12

Yes, loofahs are meant to be changed often, and if I was having a reaction, the first thing to go would be my loofah, even if I thought it was the soap, because the soap would still be in the loofah, no matter how much I rubbed and tried cleaning it.