Almond Oil & Aloe Pre-Shave Cream
Almond Oil & Aloe Pre-Shave Cream
Antica Barbieria Colla
Antica Barbieria Colla has been Milan's barbershop since 1904, still run today by the Bompieri family.
The pre-shave step at Antica Barbieria Colla is one that most shaving routines skip entirely - a cream applied to the skin before the shaving cream, massaged in with circular movements until absorbed. It softens the beard, prepares the skin, and helps the blade move without resistance.
One detail about this cream is deliberate and worth noting: it has no fragrance. The reason is practical. Applied just before the Almond Oil Shaving Cream, it will inevitably blend with whatever scent that carries. A fragrance of its own would interfere. The absence is a considered choice, not an omission.
Almond oil and aloe - softening and nourishing, cool and fresh. For sensitive skin, particularly.
100ml. Hand-made in Italy.
Exclusive to Australia.
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Ingredients
Aqua [Water], Ethylhexyl Palmitate, Cetearyl Ethylhexanoate, Glycerin, Glyceryl Stearate SE, Zea Mays Starch [Zea Mays (Corn) Starch], Butyrospermum Parkii Butter [Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter], Prunus Amygdalus Dulcis Oil [Prunus Amygdalus Dulcis (Sweet Almond) Oil], Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice, Cetearyl Alcohol, Cetyl Alcohol, Helianthus Annuus Seed Oil [Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil], Hydrolyzed Wheat Protein, Allantoin, Tocopheryl Acetate, Carbomer, Xanthan Gum, Citric Acid, Propylene Glycol, Sodium Hydroxide, Phenoxyethanol, Ethylhexylglycerin.
Use
Before shaving, apply to the skin with a gentle massage, performing circular movements until completely absorbed.
About the barbershop
Antica Barbieria Colla has been on Via Gerolamo Morone in Milan since 1944 - and in the city, without interruption, since 1904. Dino Colla opened the original barbieria near the Duomo that year, modelled on the private gentlemen's clubs of London. The house survived two addresses and a wartime bombing; Francesca Bompieri, whose father Franco ran it from 1975, runs it today. The product line - hair, skin, beard, shaving, and four signature colognes - traces its formulations to Colla himself, each recipe passed down and quietly refined through the generations of ownership that followed. Everything is hand-made in Italy by specialists who work in direct contact with the house.
Exclusive to Australia.
