Antica Barbieria Colla has been Milan's barbershop since 1904, still run today by the Bompieri family. The beard shampoo is not the same problem as the hair shampoo. Facial hair is coarser; the skin beneath it is the skin that a razor meets. The two have different needs, and most formulas don't attend to both. This one does. Magnesium is the ingredient around which the rest of the composition is built. It reduces itch, calms skin rashes, removes excessive sebum, stimulates circulation, and improves elasticity in the skin beneath the beard. White oak bark, aloe, hydrolysed wheat and silk are in the formula, each with a specific role. The fragrance is darkwood - earthy, dry, present without being heavy. A painter associated with the Abstract movement in Italy has been coming to Via Gerolamo Morone since the 1970s. He has never cut his beard. Partly, they suggest, because of this. 150ml. Hand-made in Italy. Exclusive to Australia.
