Going for a lab look in the bathroom? The Buoy soap dispenser will certainly help.
They're available in six different colors at $35 a pop. Designed by Diez for German manufacturer Authentics, the dispensers are drip-proof.
Authentics explains it all after the jump:
By application of pressure on to the bottle neck from above, the rubber base contracts inwards.
An excess of pressure forces the soap outwards via a curved tube.
Membrane valves prevent the fluid returning to the bottle and the tube remains full to the top. As the tube is tapered at the end, the liquid soap does not drip out after use.
The pump bottle and tube are made of transparent sturdy polycarbonate which allows a clear view into the inside of the product. The liquid soap so becomes part of the design itself.
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I love this.
My guests are consistently being squirted by the liquid soap/dispenser combo currently in my bathroom.
Where can I buy it?
Oh man! You could buy a genuine lab-wear soap dispenser that really looks high-tech, for a quarter the price. I'll find a source when I'm back in the lab on Monday. This looks Mickey-Mouse to me. (Sorry. Maxwell, you have a real weakness for cute. But if one is really trying to simplify and eliminate excess, one cannot be seduced by cute. In my humble opinion....)
Joanne
in honor of this post, i just blogged about my jonathan adler soap dispenser that i'm having major problems with. for some reason, it's turning all my soap into this dark gunky crap! (and my other soap dispenser doesn't have issues)
weird.
A $35 soap dispenser? I'll just use the ones the soap comes in from Bath and Body Works.
someone somewhere is figuring out how to make a bong out of this
I have one for two years now. Interesting looks but not very practical because:
- it needs two hands to operate
- the tube inside that reaches to the bottom bends when the device is pushed down and can fall off
- the steel ball valve inside doesn't work well thus the tubes drain. Needs a lot of pumping after a weekend
- there is quite a volume in the 'tip' which an drip out over time.
I much prefer my porcelain bottles with the normal pump mechanism.
FWIW I like the 'widget' brand items with a soft plastic bottom. No scratching sounds or breakage risk.
OK here you go, a real functional laboratory Nalgene wash bottle for $6 or so
http://www.escience.ca/genSci/RENDER/6/1046/1109/10340.html
Joanne
I'm happy with the (ceramic) ones I have, but I do like the looks of the posted ones better than the real lab ones. (Thomas' points notwithstanding.)
Joanne! A Canadian website! Thank you! :)
You could probably figure out a way to put a normal soap pump mechanism on an Erlenmeyer flask. That would be a cute way to get the lab look without losing any functionality.