Vintage Barber Cabinet

Welcome to The Holy Ebony Trading Company, the area for innovative, tiny group grooming items made especially for males. I'm Stefan Vincent, and I also started this business at the beginning of 2013. I have always had a fascination with old-school barbers and barbershops. My grandfather along with his cousin had been barbers in Brooklyn once they relocated here from Italy, so when I was old enough to shave we inherited their particular old straight razors and strops. It took me a number of years to master simple tips to hone all of them and employ them, ultimately We accumulated a significant assortment of classic barber gear and was addicted to the whole notion of wetshaving while the grooming practices of a bygone era.

Shortly my restroom pantry was overloaded with aftershaves, creams, soaps and brushes. Containers of classic right razors appeared to grow on their own, and I also became obsessed with finding older, more unique items. We started rebuilding all of them and going for away as gift ideas and even sold various on a commission basis. We eventually pared my collection down to a manageable number and began experimenting with different shaving soaps, creams and aftershaves in search of the evasive perfect shave. When I attempted every product i possibly could get my on the job, and understood what I liked, I began buying unscented lotions and blending personal scents with essential natural oils and different additives. I discovered that incorporating slightly castor oil to my lather helped to put up it collectively, and finally I took to making my personal products to appeal to my tastes.

Im a bay-rum fanatic, if you ask me, the absolute most classic of all of the barbershop fragrances. A brief history of Bay Rum is fascinating, and I also realized that many classic barbers could have their particular formula. I started right-away by myself batch. I decided i might make use of United states whiskey rather than rum as a nod towards barbers associated with the old western. We ordered pimenta racimosa departs through the west indies, I picked juniper fruits that grew during my lawn and I steeped countless bottles of personal Bay Whiskey concoction. I provided many of them away as gifts but still have several bottles during my personal stash. Fundamentally individuals began running-out and asking easily could sell them some. Regrettably, steeping giant batches of leaves and berries in my own small little store had been unsustainable therefore I purchased over 100 types of fragrance and essential oils and visited work finding the ones that I found to-be the essential pleasing and close to my original formula. I also began to experiment with various other classic scents like sandalwood therefore the initial remedies for stopped or modified classics.

I wanted my aftershave to have the appearance, experience and a lot of significantly odor of one thing might see in a barbershop during the fame times of barbers in 1800's. Every little thing I make is designed to emulate the aesthetic of gold rush barbers, from times as soon as your barber was also your dentist plus physician, whenever barber had been the most important person within the entire city. I started printing my own labels on brown paper and buying emerald apothecary containers. We exposed a tiny webshop and had been pretty amazed as soon as the sales began flooding in. I expanded the merchandise line to four signature scents that I felt embodied the kind of manly stuff you'll find at the time, with a bit of a contemporary twist. I tried the aroma of woodsmoke and gunpowder.

The name, The Holy Ebony, arises from cowboy activity shooting, where everyone else shoots black powder firearms, aided by the development of smokeless dust and pyrodex, people turned towards simpler, cleaner, more modern gunpowder. The true purists though, just shoot real black dust, and in case you may well ask all of them whatever they use within their particular six shooters and lever activities, their answer is invariably, "we only shoot The Holy Black." I experienced never heard that term, and I liked the sound of it.

The production of a great deal item got to become more than I could deal with, and things in the course of time got entirely daunting. Which a tale for the next time, however in the finish, we introduced my brother in as someone so we are currently in the process of revitalizing and relaunching the organization. I really hope you certainly will join us on our journey to help make the Holy Black a family group name, and an internationally brand.