To provide a solid lubricant which maintains a constant scraped amount even when the manufacturing method and the manufacturing conditions are different or even when lot-to-lot variation of raw materials is caused and can be uniformly fed to an image carrier, and an electrophotographic image-forming apparatus.

The solid lubricant (50) is used in lubricating the surface of an image carrier (1) in an elecrophotographic image-forming apparatus, and the solid lubricant surface is scraped off by a brush roll (51) of a lubricant feed member, and the scraped solid lubricant is fed to the image carrier (1), and the solid lubricant comprises zinc stearate as the major component and a fine powder material.

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