A dispenser for dispensing flowable, for example liquid or paste-like, compounds, includes a storage reservoir for receiving the compound, and a preferably modular dispenser pump having an inlet channel and an outlet channel and a pump chamber delimited on the inlet and the outlet side by valves, and also having a head piece, the head piece having a dispensing opening, and a restoring device formed by a spring is further provided between the head piece and the storage reservoir. The restoring device is formed by a plastic spring having a lower spring washer and an upper spring washer, which are arranged substantially coaxially with one another, a respective plane spanned by each spring washer extending substantially perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the plastic spring, and furthermore the spring washers being compressibly connected to one another by sprung struts extending over more than 90 degrees in the circumferential direction.