It’s a typical household item you likely don’t think twice about: sponges. Whether they’re in the kitchen, bathroom or anywhere else in the house they can pose a threat if they’re too old. This past ...

The sponge is possibly the grossest thing in your house. I say this as someone who regularly comes home from holding a subway pole and immediately eats finger food (it’s builds character!), but still ...

Tips for making household tasks easier – we all want as many as we can get. Here are five ways to use sponges and make ...

Your go-to household cleaning sponge could be exposing you to trillions of microplastics each month, according to new research. A study published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology ...

We all know that kitchen sponges can harbor lots of microbes. Even when they're washed with detergent or heated in the microwave, they don't seem to get very clean. But new research has shown that the ...

If you're just haphazardly adding a package of dish sponges to your grocery cart every so often and calling it a day, you're about to enter a whole new world. We can probably all agree that keeping a ...

As long-time Lifehacker readers may recall, we’re not always the biggest fans of sponges. The most obvious example of this sentiment is a 2019 post by former Lifehacker staffer Nick Douglas entitled ...

The household sponge market is prime territory for staking out eco-friendly product claims. The yield is mostly fool’s gold. Once upon a time, a sponge, in the sense of a physical object one used with ...