Two talented Dublin sisters are turning used coffee grounds from cafes into a range of sustainable skincare products.
Dun Laoghaire women Aisling and Sadhbh Wood are making waves with their start-up Bean Around selling handmade exfoliating products. The young duo collect used coffee grounds from local cafes and work canteens and transform them into soap bars and body scrubs that they claim can easily remove old fake tan.
The idea came to Aisling, 19, and Sadhbh, 21, two years ago when their dad bought a coffee machine for the family. Aisling told Dublin Live: "My dad has psoriasis. We got a coffee machine two years ago. He started using the coffee grinds as just a makeshift scrub. One day he decided to mix the grounds with some soap.