Nothing Says Clean Like A Sponge And Soap

Sea Sponges are animals at have a body full of pores and channels which allowing water to circulate through them. They are made up of jelly-like mesohyl sandwiched between two thin layers of cells. Sponges have unspecialized cells that can transform into other types and that often migrate between the main cell layers and the mesohyl in the process. Sponges do not have nervous, digestive or circulatory systems. Instead, most rely on maintaining a constant water flow through their bodies to find food and oxygen and to remove wastes.

All sponges are aquatic animals found mainly in the ocean found at all depths ranging from tidal zones to depths exceeding 8,800 m (5.5 mi) sea sponges are worldwide in their distribution, from the polar regions to the tropics. Natural sea sponges are more abundant but less diverse in temperate waters than in tropical waters, possibly because organisms that prey on sponges are more abundant in tropical waters. There are however, some freshwater species. Most natural sea sponges live in quiet, clear waters, because in rougher seas sediment stirred up by waves or currents would block their pores, making it difficult for them to survive. The greatest numbers of sponges are usually found on firm surfaces such as rocks, but some sponges that have root-like bases can attach themselves to soft sediment.

Using natural sea sponges is nothing new Early Europeans used soft sponges for many purposes, including padding for helmets, portable drinking utensils and municipal water filters they were also used as cleaning tools, instead of paintbrushes. Nowadays sea sponge is produced to be used as bath sponges or to extract biologically active compounds which are found in certain sponge species.