Looop
Collection:CSM Museum & Study Collection
Date: May 2021
Designer: Kara Wong
Dimensions:
130 × 80 × 80 mm (13 × 8 × 8 cm) - can
50 × 200 × 1 mm (5 × 20 × 0.1 cm) - pads
Medium: Tin can, PLA Filament, bamboo fabric
Object number: PR.2021.55.CC.1-4
DescriptionDescription by designer:
Inspired by Buoyancy Force, Looop Can is a cleaning kit for washing reusable menstruation pad for reducing period poverty for refugees in water-scarcity regions or asylum seekers in financial difficulties.
Almost 60% of female refugees suffer period poverty problems as they rather spend their limited funding on food or diapers for their babies. Building a washing kit for reusable sanitary pads will benefit not only refugees but also people who have limited financial ability and insufficient education about menstrual health management.
Aiming to reduce stigma related to period blood. Looop Can make use of the upward force exerted by a fluid that opposes the weight of a particularly or fully immersed object. It can wash a reusable sanitary pad with 500 ml water. Looop Can provides baking soda to help to remove blood stains with natural cleaning detergent. Even wasted water can be discarded to the natural environment when the period blood and baking soda can provide extra nutrients to the plant. Instead of completely creating a new kit out of the sketch, Looop Can recycle the steel can into the design process so that users can replace their can if they found the old one starting to rust or damaged. With injection modeling, which expected the total cost should be around £3 for the whole set including the washing parts and pads.
Looop Pad uses bamboo terry as the contact layer, bamboo fleece as the absorption layer and PUL as the leak proof layer as they are anti-odour, anti-bacterial, and eco-friendly which are less likely to raise skin allergies. When the pad is hung up for drying, it won’t be that obvious to be related to menstruation and takes half a day to dry indoors. Using rectangular shapes will also reduce the off cut waste.
Expects to have a 5 years lifespan which covers the minimum time that a refugee stays in the camp waiting for identity approval.
Inspired by Buoyancy Force, Looop Can is a cleaning kit for washing reusable menstruation pad for reducing period poverty for refugees in water-scarcity regions or asylum seekers in financial difficulties.
Almost 60% of female refugees suffer period poverty problems as they rather spend their limited funding on food or diapers for their babies. Building a washing kit for reusable sanitary pads will benefit not only refugees but also people who have limited financial ability and insufficient education about menstrual health management.
Aiming to reduce stigma related to period blood. Looop Can make use of the upward force exerted by a fluid that opposes the weight of a particularly or fully immersed object. It can wash a reusable sanitary pad with 500 ml water. Looop Can provides baking soda to help to remove blood stains with natural cleaning detergent. Even wasted water can be discarded to the natural environment when the period blood and baking soda can provide extra nutrients to the plant. Instead of completely creating a new kit out of the sketch, Looop Can recycle the steel can into the design process so that users can replace their can if they found the old one starting to rust or damaged. With injection modeling, which expected the total cost should be around £3 for the whole set including the washing parts and pads.
Looop Pad uses bamboo terry as the contact layer, bamboo fleece as the absorption layer and PUL as the leak proof layer as they are anti-odour, anti-bacterial, and eco-friendly which are less likely to raise skin allergies. When the pad is hung up for drying, it won’t be that obvious to be related to menstruation and takes half a day to dry indoors. Using rectangular shapes will also reduce the off cut waste.
Expects to have a 5 years lifespan which covers the minimum time that a refugee stays in the camp waiting for identity approval.