The reusable Emanui menstrual cup cleaner is designed to supply customers a neater, extra sustainable means of cleansing the product on-the-go with out having to make use of a public sink.
Based on its creators, the Emanui cup cleaner and steriliser makes use of “a minimum of 2,500 per cent much less water” than common cleansing strategies, which regularly simply sees customers wash their cup beneath operating water.
Constituted of the identical medical silicone materials usually used for the menstrual cups themselves, the cleaner weighs simply 115 grams, making it compact and light-weight sufficient to be comfortably carried round in a bag.
The Emanui includes a essential cylindrical physique that barely tapers in in direction of the highest with detachable sections on both finish – one, extra stable, part to carry water and the opposite for the cup to be inserted into.
When the cup requires cleansing, the person merely fills the detachable backside part of the Emanui up with water and screws it again onto the principle physique.
They will then carry this into the bathroom cubicle with them, the place they take away their menstrual cup, empty its contents into the bathroom, and insert the stick-like finish of the cup into the corresponding finish of the Emanui.
These joined gadgets are then secured again onto the cleaner, with the menstrual cup being inserted into the Emanui’s hole physique, which accommodates an inside brush.
Utilizing “pure gestures” similar to rubbing, shaking and squeezing, the comb and water work collectively to completely clear the cup with out the necessity for added chemical substances.
The soiled water can then be poured into the bathroom by a spout on the high of the Emanui, which the designers liken to a chook’s beak.
“Varied social limitations – similar to lack of tolerance, training, taboo, concern of displaying that an individual is menstruating – make the essential cleansing and sterilisation means of the menstrual cup an much more sophisticated job,” mentioned Paul Lequay, who based Emanui along with designer Iga Slowik.
“For instance, when a person has to wash the cup in a typical sink in entrance of everybody, or when boiling the cup in a kitchen pot at residence,” he added. “Due to this fact, we designed this resolution to hygienically deal with the menstrual cup and empower its person, regardless of the context.”
“Cleansing in soiled or ill-equipped locations results in elevated well being dangers, so many customers don’t use their cup outdoors of residence,” Lequay continued.
“We designed Emanui to hygienically deal with the menstrual cup anyplace its person goes. The attachment for the cup allows you to manipulate and clear it with out dirtying your palms or danger dropping the cup.”
On the finish of the menstrual cycle, customers can sterilise the Emanui by heating it in a microwave for 3 minutes utilizing a minimal quantity of water, which comes out as steam from the spout. The person’s cup could be saved contained in the Emanui when not in use.
Whereas the cleaner is at present designed for folks with affordable entry to water, the creators plan to adapt it in order that these with out speedy entry to water can even use it.
The creators gave the Emanui a soft-touch physique to make it versatile when cleansing the cup inside, but in addition to offer consolation by giving it the sensation of “a protecting pores and skin”.
They paired this texture with hues of purple, pink, pink and cream, that are mushy but vibrant, in a bid to set the product other than typical medical designs.
The Emanui is designed to work with normal menstrual cups – it’s suitable with round 70 per cent of these in the marketplace – and suits the three totally different sizes of small, medium and huge.
Different gadgets designed to supply girls with a extra sustainable different to throwaway interval merchandise embrace a reusable, self-cleaning tampon applicator by start-up firm Dame.
Known as D, the product includes two sections and a protecting lid, and is made for use with non-applicator tampons.
In the meantime Central Saint Martins graduate Amelia Kociolkowska designed a spandex pouch known as Carrie to presents these working within the police or armed forces a discreet and hygienic method to retailer their sanitary merchandise.