A tool with a long handle designed to reach and scrape the hard-to-reach skin on your own back, often used after bathing.
Compound of 'back' and 'scraper' (Old Norse 'skrapa', to scrape). This tool has existed in various forms across many cultures for centuries.
The backscraper is such an elegant solution to a genuinely unsolvable problem—you physically cannot reach your own middle back due to shoulder anatomy, which is why every culture independently invented variations of this tool.
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