jelly

Regenerative Design: Soap & Brush

Project Goal
This project aims to reuse daily life wastes to reimagine an existed product, creating a more sustainable lifestyle. 
Jelly is a set of scented soap & brushes for kitchen use, inspired by jellyfish. It is made of daily wastes: eggshells, used soaps, and coffee grounds. customers can easily replace "bell" when finished or "tentacles" when get broken to regenerate the product.
3D skills: Material Experiment/3D Printing/Cast
2D software: Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator/InDesign
2D Skills: Product Photography/Logo Design
09/2021-11/2021
Ritual
Boil eggs, make coffee, and slowly wash the dishes after eating. My day starts with these three things. They are part of the ritual sense of my life. So the Jelly started around the waste of the ceremony: coffee grounds, eggshells, and used small pieces of soap.
Materials
Soap: can naturally melt into a liquid state after being heated with water, and then form after cooling. Using this, small soaps can be mixed and re-formed into large, easy-to-grip dish soaps.
Coffee grounds can be used with soap to clean up food residues in pots and utensils faster than common dish soap.
Eggshell Recipe from Emily Gordin: +Eggshell +Water +Sugar +Agar agar +Glycerin.
Components
A 'jellyfish' has 3 body parts. Its bell is made from coffee grounds and soap, manubrium is made from eggshells, and tentacles are nylon bristles. When using 'jellyfish' to clean kitchen tools, the bell melts and disappears, users can use mold and left manubrium and tentacles to make a new 'jellyfish'.
Good-gripe Size
'Jellyfish' is lightweight and can fit your palm perfectly, users can hold it effortlessly.
User Scenarios
A playful experience to enhance your life ritual, feel like jellyfishes are swimming and cleaning everything in your sink.
Soap Flavor
3 common dish soap flavor options are ready: Citrusy, Lime, and Berries.