I've always loved Toiletpaper magazine and the work of artist Maurizio Cattelan and photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari. Their image of the soap with a bite out of it has always stuck with me - simple and beautiful but gag inducing.

This project of things you'd rather not put in your mouth evolved from there to the Hairsicle... and from there to many other iterations. This series also includes suggestions from Instagram - boy did they deliver on ideas for this.