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From the feedback that we have gathered, we improved on it - Table 5 shows our project’s advantages and
disadvantages.

Disadvantages Advantages
It was not appealing to non-coffee lovers An innovative way to use the coffee ground apart from using it as a
compost
Coffee grounds cannot be stored too long and needs to be An attractive gift for coffee lovers
processed into soap within a few days
A fast and easy way to convert the coffee ground into soap

Table 5: Disadvantages and advantages of the soap products.

Review of Eco-Solutions by
SME Management

While we recycle our coffee grounds, we are glad to coffee soap bars with our closest partners as the holiday
explore upcycling solutions since coffee grounds have season approaches. We want to thank the ITE students
great exfoliation qualities, and caffeine brightens skin. for all of their time collecting our coffee grounds,
Coffee soap is a tangible, hands-on solution to the experimenting to find the best combination and ratio of
question of our used coffee grounds. The shea butter ingredients, and delivering this solution to us. Soap is
base was all-natural, and the few ingredients make the a more substantial product than ever to stay safe and
solution relatively easy to implement. Overall, it is an sanitized, so we hope to continue taking this solution
appealing product to consumers. forward. Thank you Iszreen, Yiling, and Nazirah!

We still need to conduct market research to determine
whether we can retail coffee soap, and for next year
(2021), we will include this in our operations planning
for production. Since the production process is quite
simple, we would like to host workshops for coffee soap
making for our clients. We still want to figure out the
best shape for the soap, hence the circular prototypes
and the rectangular ones. We will share these artisanal

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