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Soap Problem? No Problem: Kickstart a Self-Perpetuating Bar of Soap

By Ray Hu - February 23, 2012

in Kickstarter

It's something that everyone uses everyday (or so we hope), yet the humble bar of soap is often discarded before it lives its life to completion: as Aric Norine—a Vancouver-based animator by trade—notes, that last 10% of 'soap sliver,' often finds its way down the drain (so to speak) before it can go to use. He was inspired by his germaphobic wife, as the story goes, to preserve the integrity of these last unloved, unlathered bits, to create the STACK, a bar of soap with a concave surface for reviving these slivers. "Stack soap is my way to eliminate the soap sliver... and save my marriage."

It's something like a soapdish made of soap, "designed with a special groove," such that "each new bar is ready to receive the previous little sliver." (If you misread that as "precious" the first time around, as I did, you might just be in the STACK's target market.) Thus, the old bar completes the new one and the lifecycle—illustrated in the the graphic above, not to mention in the product itself—continues: as Norine writes on the Kickstarter page, "You've now begun the Infinite Cycle of Soap."

The other, less salient (but perhaps equally important) feature is the raised logo, which adds crucial grip between the two bars. For what it's worth, STACK is produced in USA and is free of sodium laureth sulfate (SLS).

STACK joins a handful of other soap designs we've seen lately, from a purportedly age-old French (via Korean) design to a snap-off soap concept, as well as a grater-based dispenser that sort of splits the difference.

See it in stack-tion:

Norine has already secured the $9,000 he was seeking for the custom die, so you have just under three weeks to drop stacks on stacks on stacks: acutely germaphobic backers can pre-order a lifetime supply for a cool three grand.

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youngid

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Cool idea. One major issue is that soap is food for germs.
So you place your dirty old bar of soap and sandwich it between your new clean one you have a happy little home for germs to grow. I would recommend they do micro-testing to see if any issues arise.
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adora

12 years ago

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This looks like a white people problem.
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GH

12 years ago

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Nothing new about this, check out "Coast" soap it's had this design for years.
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