Mibalance

MIBALANCE

Oral Cleaning Toolkit (2020)

During the past 12,000 years of human evolution, our lifestyles have changed significantly. For example, we use various hygiene products in cleaning. This has led to the decline of diverse species of microbiome and break balance of microbiome within and on human body and in the environment. This could cause the species to go extinct as we may kill both good and bad bacteria. Without those microbes, we may constantly get sick. Those good bacteria are actually protecting us. Most people do not realize the negative influence of the microbiome’s extinction.

Mibalance is a creative oral cleaning toolkit that aims to find new cleaning methods to help people keep the diversity and balance of microbiome on and within their bodies. It does this by helping people create more saliva and make full use of saliva. With this kit, users can activate a mouth self-cleaning system by using saliva as a cleaning material.

There are three different tools in this kit, which represent different cleaning levels. All these tools are linked to specific behaviours which people are familiar with, such as chewing, tasting and licking. Users can choose to use any one of them depending on how clean they want to be. The cleaner they want to be, the more steps they need to take. The cleaner they want to be, the more steps they need to take.