The dispenser stays. The refill comes by post.

Recharged

We kept the bottle. Only the inside moves on.

Run dry? One pull, straight down.

Next one? It slips through your letterbox.

Ready to go right out of the package.

Same dispenser, fresh inside.

The straw punctures the seal.

It clicks into place.

Easy as a new bottle, made to use less plastic.

The idea

A dispenser that stays on the sink, and a refill sent straight to your home. Thin enough for the letterbox, so reordering feels as simple and familiar as buying a new bottle.

Recharged is a rechargeable dispenser for everyday care: shampoo, conditioner and hand soap.

Designed by Flynn Stout

The refill

Thin enough for
the letterbox.

The refill pack is slim enough to fit through a post slot. It arrives the way a letter does.

The Exotic coconut refill, Repair & Care Shampoo, floating among dry leaves. The Lavender refill, Oil & Care Conditioner, floating among dry leaves. The Aloe Vera refill, hand soap, floating among dry leaves.

Scents

One dispenser.
Three refills.

Each refill carries its own colour and its own name, readable through the window of the dispenser.

On the label: Repair & Care Shampoo

Material

One material.
Nothing more.

A mono-material HDPE dispenser with an integrated pump mechanism and a transparent recharge window.

The set on pedestals: a dispenser with its shell lifted off the refill, the assembled dispenser with Exotic coconut in its window, and the Lavender, Aloe Vera and Exotic coconut refills. Shell Refill Pump Window
MaterialMonoHDPE
01

Mono-material

The dispenser is made from a single plastic: HDPE.

Close-up of the pump on top of the dispenser.
02

Integrated pump

The pump mechanism is integrated into the design, on top where the hand expects it.

Close-up of the transparent recharge window, showing the Exotic coconut refill inside.
03

Recharge window

A transparent window shows the refill inside: its colour, its name.

The brief

Designed under the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation, which by 2030 requires companies to minimise the plastic used in their products and packaging.

Pencil concept sketches of the dispenser, with notes in Dutch.

Designed by Flynn Stout

From pencil
to prototype.

The dispenser began as pencil sketches and a row of physical prototypes, before it was modelled and rendered as you see it here.

A row of physical prototypes: dispenser shells, refill bottles and pump collars.

Physical prototypes: shells, refills and the parts in between.