'I was taking heroin in my school toilets at 12': Former convict whose leg almost rotted off from drug infection reveals how a shower thought turned him into a soap tycoon

When Chris Sylvester was just 12 years old, he was introduced to heroin in a toilet cubicle at school. The next 26 years saw him in active drug addiction, in and out of prison, hospitals and homelessness. Chris Sylvester was first introduced to heroin at aged 12 in a toilet cubicle at school. Producing soap was quite literally a shower thought for Sylvester, ‘I had a shower one day and realised that I could help people get clean with soap.’ Livestreamed on social media platforms like TikTok, the ‘Tubtrap’ is a campaign effort to sell £50,000 of soap.