Students from Indonesia's Binus University have won a White Pencil at this year's D&AD New Blood Awards for their colour-coded soaps, designed to teach vulnerable users about consent. More about Consent Soap provides sex education for people with learning disabilities
Skincare brand Aesop has opened a minimalist store in London's Knightsbridge, featuring a "soap corridor" created with uniform tiles made from the everyday bathroom product. More about Aesop clads London store with tactile bars of soap
Industrial design student Alara Ertenü has developed a packaging solution for soap made from peapods and artichoke waste, which is currently on show as part of Dutch Design Week. More about Packioli is a biodegradable soap packaging made from artichoke leaves and peapods
Swedish cosmetics brand Forgo has conducted a lifecycle assessment of its mix-it-yourself soap in a bid to eliminate carbon emissions from its supply chain. More about Forgo aims to become net-zero "within the next five years" through its refillable cosmetics
Japanese studio Nendo has designed Carton + Pump, an alternative to single-use plastic soap dispensers in the form of a recyclable paper carton that can be switched out and replaced. More about Nendo creates paper soap dispensers that look like milk cartons
Spanish designer Júlia Roca Vera has created a line of cosmetics from fruit that was discarded for purely aesthetic reasons, to encourage people to make use of waste products. More about Júlia Roca Vera turns food waste into skincare
Visions of the Future is a showcase of optimistic projects by Singapore designers, including a soap-making machine, an inflatable textile and a paint for repairing broken sneakers. More about Singapore designers create wellbeing and mindfulness tools for pandemic era
Experience designer Bompas & Parr has launched a design competition to rethink hand sanitisers to encourage hand-washing during the coronavirus pandemic while raising money for charity. More about Fountain of Hygiene competition calls on designers to rethink hand sanitisers amid coronavirus pandemic
With the coronavirus outbreak drawing attention to the importance of hand washing, we've rounded up soaps designed to upgrade the cleaning experience. More about Five soaps designed to refresh hand washing
Swedish design studio Form Us With Love has unveiled Forgo, a mix-it-yourself cosmetics brand that minimises carbon emissions and avoids plastic packaging. More about Form Us With Love launches Forgo soap brand in response to "extremely wasteful" cosmetics industry
Researcher Yujia Bian has cast the word architecture into bars of soap that are being used at the Oslo Architecture Triennale to question the idea of creating pristine works of architecture. More about Yujia Bian creates architecture soap for Oslo triennale
Northumbria University graduate Danielle Coffey has designed a device that transforms oils and fats leftover from cooking into soap, to prevent them from polluting household water systems. More about Danielle Coffey's Sápu device turns household fats into soap
Central Saint Martins post-graduate student Mi Zhou has created toiletry bottles called Soapack that are cast from soap and melt away once they are no longer useful. More about Soapack bottles can be used as soap once their contents are finished
Inspired by a brutalist soap, we curated a Pinterest board of the best-designed grooming products, including 13 reinterpretations of the shaving brush and an aluminium straight razor aimed at millennials. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest ›
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Tetrahedral concrete forms used to prevent coastal erosion provided the design cues for this soap, which would look at home in any brutalist bathroom. More about Brutalist soap imitates concrete coastal barriers so it won't slip out of your hands
Dezeen has teamed up with New York brand Good Thing for this competition, offering the chance to win minimal body-wash bars by British designer Jasper Morrison. More about Competition: win minimal Soap bars by Jasper Morrison
Iceland University of the Arts graduate Soley Thrainsdottir has turned leftover materials like pine needles and horse fat into a series of cleaning tools and products. More about Soley Thrainsdottir creates sustainable cleaning tools using natural waste materials
British designer Jasper Morrison has lent his famed minimal style to a no-frills translucent bar of body soap. More about Jasper Morrison's Soap allows for washing "without anything unnecessary"
Aiming to create a sustainable alternative to standard cleaning products, Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Mirjam de Bruijn has condensed detergent, dish soap and shampoo into solid forms that are activated by water. More about Mirjam de Bruijn turns household cleaning products into waterless capsules
Extra Moooi: Dutch furniture and lighting brand Moooi has launched a range of hotel bath and shower products with a "strong and outstanding scent". In this movie, co-founder Casper Vissers explains why the move is about brand recognition, not turnover. More about Moooi launches range of hotel soaps and shampoos to extend its brand