Dragon’s Den entrepreneur shares how she transformed Covid lockdown idea into eco-friendly business success

Diverting more than 10 tonnes of plastic waste and replacing around 800 000 bottles, Lisa Hicks has turned a lockdown frustration into one of the UK s most promising sustainable household innovations. The founder of SNOAP — a solid soap dispensing system — did not set out to launch a business. Instead, the idea emerged during the Covid 19 lockdown, when daily routines slowed down enough to expose something most households rarely stop to consider: just how much plastic they use