Almond Oil Hard Shaving Soap
Almond Oil Hard Shaving Soap
Antica Barbieria Colla
Antica Barbieria Colla has been Milan's barbershop since 1904, still run today by the Bompieri family.
The soap is made by saponification - liquid soap poured into moulds and left to solidify. The time that takes varies with the humidity in the air and the season. A hard shaving soap cannot be hurried.
The result is a bar enriched with almond oil, worked into a lather with a brush in a bowl of hot water - the traditional method, the one used at the barbieria itself. Almond oil's high content of unsaturated fats softens the beard hair and protects the skin from the blade, reducing redness even on the most sensitive skin.
125g. Hand-made in Italy.
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Ingredients
Sodium Stearate, Potassium Stearate, Sodium Laurate, Potassium Laurate, Aqua (water), Parfum (Fragrance), Glycerin, Prunus Amygdalus Dulcis (Sweet Almond) Oil, Sodium Palm Kernelate, Palm Kernel Acid, Potassium Palm Kernelate, Tetrasodium Iminodisuccinate, Tetrasodium Etidronate, Benzaldehyde, Terpineol.
Use
Fill a bowl with hot water and let the brush soak for a few minutes to soften the bristles. After this time, take the brush and squeeze it to remove excess water: the bristles must be moist, but not dripping.
Rub the brush into the soap in circular motions until you start getting some foam and apply it to the face by making a series of continuous circular motions so that the foam rises further until it becomes a white, thick and creamy lather.
Alternatively, you can take a fairly abundant flake of soap, place it in the shaving bowl, dip the brush in it and after having carefully wet it apply the product on the face as described above.
Once this is done, proceed with shaving.
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.
