@Ravenoirth
Just a random evening for me an Indonesian to find the origin of "waslap". We have the exact same thing over here, small towel/cloth that used to rub during bath time. So it is perhaps the Dutch brought it to our culture during colonization and indeed Bahasa Indonesia have some borrowed words from Dutch. Sometimes for the exact object, sometimes not. Kudos for both of you! People might think you just came up with a random daily object for a video but literally a person across the world is learning something new from it.
@Yuki09988
When I was little I had these as different animals with ears and everything. Truly a great invention🥰
@YuBeace
I’m chronically ill and disabled so showering is difficult on my nervous system sometimes, but I wash myself using these multiple times a day to stay fresh. ☺️
@silsilsilly
These things are still normal in the Netherlands. We use it in the shower. Put soap on it and wash your body with it while showering.
@lilapy1430
You have impeccable taste for music in specific scenarios.
@dek2527
In the morning, when you don't want or need to take a compled shower, you do a "Katzenwäsche" with this.❤
@lindaanderson7077
As a German child growing up in America, we used these and loved them. I had no clue how a regular washcloth worked. These are die besten❤❤❤❤❤❤
@raarast
Indonesian here — my late grandma and mum taught me to use “washlap” and they always have that small towel in the bathroom! Now I understand where “washlap” comes from!
@dizzyworld2052
We call it 'lif' (means fiber) in Turkish probably because plant fibers were used for exfolating before towels or clothes.And you can CROCHET a lot of different lifs Uyen😅Turkish crochet channels on YouTube have amazing designs 👌
@kyoni6098
French have it too, I still use it all the time. I even got a similar scrubby little square cloth to wash dishes and avoid trashing sponges on a regular basis. You can wash these at 90°C no problem and they are clean as day 1 :-) Less trash is good.
@machazychaz
We often use these in the hospital! Because for bedbound people a shower or bath is impossible we can at least rub the sweat off with these in a simple "Katzenwäsche". They also fit nicely on the head if someone has a fever 😅
@sheimi91
OHHHHHH! So that's where they're from!!! We always had plenty around our ordinary Polish house although I've never really seen any in the shops! My Nan used to work in Germany, and now that I think about it, they appeared around that time 😂😂😂 a life mystery solved! (We call it "lapka" which might be a mix of the original word and the Polish word "łapka" meaning "a little paw")
@emmaleeaman1110
Turkish folks very commonly have similar items - Turks are very into exfoliation and have many different types of exfoliating wash cloths that were developed in the public bath houses.
@sisuguillam5109
I love putting a bar of soap into a Waschlappen to scrubb myself down. So nice. I used to have one from back when I was a baby made of the very soft cloth cloth-diapers were made of (yes, I am that old). Those were perfection!
@traceyc130
Love these. I first got one in 2003 when I was visiting my sister in Germany. I buy a couple to take home to Canada every time I visit.
@Chibinotsan
It's very west European, to have such pieces of clothes like that. We call it "gant de toilette" in France and says what it means : it's a glove you pull on your hand to wash yourself as explained in the video, sometimes a bit soapy, then rinsed and can be used to wash oneself when : no tap water, nor heater, or not enough time (I used one for my "toilette" this morning)
@saranicholeruiz5986
I was so scared he was gonna say it was for something gross 😂😂😂
@titaniatixie
Omg we also call it a "waslap" in Afrikaans😁
@mariannagregorio2905
I was thinking: "It looks like the animal sponge-like fabric gloves we used to shower with as kids." By the end of the video, I knew I was right. 😅😅
@wedernoch6441