When you buy through links on this page, HuffPost may earn a commission that helps support our journalism. Every product is handpicked by the HuffPost Shopping team, and prices and availability are subject to change. Even if you know instinctively that your kitchen sponge can get pretty nasty, the numbers still might shock you: 54 billion bacteria per cubic centimeter (yes, billion with a B) can be found on a kitchen sponge. For those keeping track, that’s similar to concentrations of bacteria