Red Sandalwood Hard Shaving Soap
Red Sandalwood Hard Shaving Soap
Antica Barbieria Colla
Antica Barbieria Colla has been Milan's barbershop since 1904, still run today by the Bompieri family.
Red sandalwood is the drier, more austere cousin of the white sandalwood most people know - less sweet, more resinous, with a warmth that comes from depth rather than richness. It has been used in Ayurvedic practice and as incense across the Indian subcontinent for centuries; as a fragrance in a shaving soap, it carries that history quietly into the morning ritual.
The soap is made by the traditional saponification method - liquid poured into moulds, left to solidify - and performs the same function as all the hard soaps in the house's range: softening the beard, protecting the skin from the blade, reducing redness. For sensitive skin too.
The sandalwood scent lingers after.
125g. Hand-made in Italy.
Exclusive to Australia.
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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, Acetyl Cedrene, Amyl Salicylate, Citronellol, Coumarin, Eugenol, Pogostemon Cablin Oil, 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.
