Arguably, the X-Paste Toothpaste Dispenser is the most significant development in bathroom efficiency since the launch of the disposable upright toothpaste pump dispenser in 1982 and the introduction of liquid soaps sold in disposable pump dispensers.

This paste dispenser is the brainchild of Scottish entrepreneurial engineer and inventor, Stewart Robertson. For the past three years, he has been researching, developing and perfecting the concept and making it reality. In the past, many products have been marketed which claimed to cut down on clutter and unhygienic mess in the bathroom. In truth, none of them worked very well.

They certainly did nothing to improve the look of a bathroom. Stewart takes up the story: ‘I’ve put three years of my life into this project – and a lot longer thinking about how to solve the irritation of crusty toothpaste tubes or dispensers which you have to chuck away when they’re not completely empty. I knew it was an engineering problem, so the secret was in making a super-efficient pump. But people care about the look of their bathrooms so it had to fit into any setting as well as being so simple a child could use it. As I got closer to the solution, I asked my wife and sons and our friends to try out working models.

Other people began to get excited too.’ Having perfected the design and produced the prototypes in Scotland, the dispensers are manufactured to Stewart’s exacting standards. If you have any comments or questions about the X-Paste, Stewart would very much like to hear your views.  E-mail him:

About the inventor.

Stewart’s previous major success was inventing and marketing a machine which removes all dust from the manufacture of laminated components. The chances are you have used a product which benefited from what he came up with. It reduced wastage so dramatically it was almost universally adopted. For example, before he designed the system around 20% of all new circuit boards were scrapped. Since his design, the fascia of almost every car instrument panel in the world had passed through the kit Stewart invented. Stewart lives near Glasgow in Scotland, with his wife and their three sons.