soulbottles & soulwater - plastikfreie Trinkflaschen und Fundraising

We believe we have found a new antidote to the bottled water craze. Tap water in Europe, the US and the UK is usually as good as bottled water (if not better) while plastic bottled water is a nightmare - ecologically and healthwise (plastifiers leaking into the water, anyone?). Still, bottled water consumption is on the rise.

Now, we want to beat the big corporations with their own weapons. soulbottles and soulwater are making tap water sexier - while giving more people access to clean drinking water.

>> soulbottles are 100% plastic free drinking bottles. They’re made of high-quality Italian glass and have a ceramics- rubber-swing top. Old-school, safe and beautiful. Eternally refillable.

>> They carry countless cool designs, created by many different young artists and chosen by public vote. Burnt in to be dishwasher-proof and produced completely carbon-neutrally.

>> 1€ per soulbottle is donated to projects that give more people access to clean drinking water.

It gets even better: soulwater is where restaurants sell tap water in soulbottles and 100% of the proceeds are used to give more people access to clean drinking water. After all, the fact that almost 800 million people still don’t have access to clean drinking water is anything but sexy, right?

After a 1-year self-funded test phase we partnered with a red-dot-award-winning designer and developed the next generation of soulbottles - the awesomest (and cleanest) drinking bottle of all times. 20.000€ are needed for the first production run. You see how the money is going to be spent below.

1. Goal: Less waste! Less CO2! More Beautiful!
Everytime a soulbottle is refilled and a plastic bottle not bought, we save 1/4 kg CO2 and 25g important grams of plastic. Plastic waste is filling up our oceans and landfills causing problems for the wild life, the environment and us. soulbottle cause no problems (except for making your muscles stronger) and only make the world more beautiful.

2. Goal: Clean Water for everybody!
With soulwater we could - if everything works the way we imagine it - raise about 5 Mio. € in five years for clean water projects in developing countries. With this amount we can give 70.000 people lifelong access to clean drinking water.

3. Goal: Healthy. Aware. Sexy.
Drinking tap water from a soulbottle is a lot healthier than drinking from plastic bottles all the time (plastifiers are sometimes poisonous, you know?). It also shows that you are aware and taking care of yourself and the enviroment. soulbottles show that sustainability can be sexy.

If you want to make sustainability sexier ...
If you want to do your piece in making sure that everyone in this world has access to clean drinking water ...
If you've always looked for a way to get your friends to drink more tap water (without coming off as a judging know-it-all) ...
... then you should definitely back this project! :)

With 20.000€ we will produce and print 12.000 soulbottles of the next generation. This is an outrageously low price and order quantity for the glass industry. Not a surprise then that we spent more than 3 months in intense research until we found our supplier in North Italy.

IMPORTANT: The startnext funded bottles will not look like most of the bottles in the video. Instead, they'll have the shape of the white 3D-printed prototype that you see in the "with their 28mm opening" shot or the pictures in the rewards. This "soulbottle 2G" was designed for us by Talia Radford, Viennese Industrial Designer and winner of the Red-Dot-Design-Award 2012. The soulbottle 2G has a bigger opening (28 mm inside), so that you can easily clean it by putting it into the diswasher, 0,6l holding capacity and is designed for 2 different tops. The porcelain-rubber-swing top (the bigger one of the ones you see in the video), and a cork top.
Height of the soulbottle 2G: 24 cm. Diameter 7,6 cm. Material: transparent, colourless glass, weight around 400g (not definite yet, but max. 50g more or less than that). It has that weight because it needs to be able to withstand the pressure from sparkling water (which, as we found out after seeing a few bottles crack in the development process, is quite substantial).

As backers of the project and thus part of the souljury you will get a vote in which designs will be printed on the soulbottles 2G. 500-1000 bottles will carry the soulwater print (see corresponding reward) and be used mainly for the fundraising in restaurants (though you can also buy the soulwater bottles, of course).

Detailed Expenses:
4.920 € - mould costs for the soulbottles 2G
4.320 € - production of 12.000 soulbottles 2G
4.000 € - custom fitted swing tops (thus leakproof but still not too hard to open)
300 € - cork prototypes
5.500 € - print of 8.000 soulbottles 2G in 12 different designs (the rest is reserved for custom prints in smaller batches)
1.260 € - transport from glass factory (North Italy) to printing (Lower Austria) and warehouse (Berlin)
800€ - Carbon Offset for CO2-emissions from production and transport at www.myclimate.org
The 1€ donation comes after a bottle is sold.