FŌM is a product I created in response to a “package within a package” design problem.
I’d recently read about the benefits of good bacteria and the problem that alcohol and triclosan based hand sanitizers might be making us sick because of their scorched earth policy of sanitation; those products kill good and bad bacteria. Washing your hands does a better job of not only cleaning off the bad bacteria and germs from your hands, but also keeping around the good.
I’d recently read about the benefits of good bacteria and the problem that alcohol and triclosan based hand sanitizers might be making us sick because of their scorched earth policy of sanitation; those products kill good and bad bacteria. Washing your hands does a better job of not only cleaning off the bad bacteria and germs from your hands, but also keeping around the good.
FŌM stems from an idea of having readily available and safe hand soap anywhere you may need it. The packages are small, single use soap sachets that a customer could securely carry around. Then when the need arises they could pull it out, rip the tip, and wash their hands. No more cheap soap that most places put in their bathrooms if they actually have soap in the first place.
I decided on the shape of the sachet pretty quickly and once the logo was in place, after several iterations, it was time to build. I used vinyl to build the boxes and printable film normally used for screen printing, for the labels. The sachets are built using vacuum seal bags, my clothes iron, a turkey baster, and some liquid soap.