Storage and consumption of solid soap is usually accompanied by a waste of precious cleaning material because of unnecessary oversuage of the soap itvself, which can be straining for the skin on the long term. On top of that, soap boxes, “stands” and dispensers usually end up being rather dirty after some time. That decaying makes a contrast between an hygene-driven tool and its own filth quite prominent.

Flocker aims to solve both the waste/distribution and storage issues by encapsulating a donut-shaped soapbar into a cylindrical wooden chassis where the soap is constantly pushed towards a metalic grater that slices it in tiny graceful petals. Such action is performed through an effortless rotation of the ring on the bottom, where the hand that drives the ring – connected to the circular grater – becomes the surface where the petals fall in the end.

The whole mechanism took some fair inspiration from the traditional peppermills and from the soapflacker produced from Sapor, but applying the same affordances on a tiny device, with a different method to keep the soap pushed towards the blade, allowing Flocker to be also an object that can be easily transported and used everywhere and everytime at will.

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