Soap Brands List

Adopted Acres was founded in 2024 by Doug & Cara Layne in Asheville Ohio, where Doug uses tallow from the family farm where they have over 1,000 acres and an Angus beef cattle herd to make his soap. Doug is a wet shaving fanatic who dreamed of making his own soaps and splashes. The fragrances are all original and in addition to Cara the couple's five children help run the show. 

Ariana & Evans was founded by Peter Charkalis, an ecclectic and worldly designer who embraces the ideaology of Kaizen, which in Japanese means "constant improvement". His fragrances are bold, sophisticated, whimsical, non-traditional, and heavily influenced by global culture and cuisine....

Started out of his apartment in Boston Massachusettes in 2013 by Will Carius, a self-taught perfumer, Barrister & Mann has grown into the one of the premium shave brands of the wet shaving community. The brand is famous for creating original fragrances which are complex and multi-layered, with classic fougere properties...

The Castle Forbes brand was started by Lady Jinny Forbes of the Forbes Clan of Scotland in 1996 with her friend Andrew French, a professional fragrance creator. Castle Forbes in Aberdeenshire is the seat of the Forbes Clan and was completed in 1815 by James Ochanar, the 17th Lord Forbes. Today, the 23rd Lord Forbes, Malcom, lives in the castle with Jinny who converted a dairy building at the back of the estate into a perfumery....

D.R. Harris & Co. Ltd was established in 1790 and is one of London's oldest pharmacies, located at No. 11 St. James's Street. Over the past two centuries, this family-owned business has specialized in gentleman's bath and body products, including their renowned shaving soaps..

Elysian Soaps was created by Shannon Constantine who started out in retail sales selling fragrances for L'Occcitane and Acqua di Parma. All of her scents and soaps are her own formulations where she takes inspiration from historical figures and mythology. Elysian embraces the belief that grooming products should use premium ingredients with beneficial properities and leave a conditioined feel to the skin...

Fine Accoutrements is the brain child and passion project of Todd Cerami, who after developing a love for wet shaving left the world of finance in 2005 to start the company. Today the fragrances are primarily homages to well-known designer fragrances...

HC&C shave soaps are known for using high quality ingredients, with most taking their fragrance inspiration from well known men's colognes and perfumes...

Martin de Candre (MdC) is an insitution in the wet shaving world. Its soaps are famous not only for their beautiful scent and best-in-class lathering ability but for their incredibe usability, with each jar packing in enough soap for many more shaves than the average tub...

Mike's Natural Soaps was started by Mike Rytel in Portland, Oregon. In 2009, while still in graduate school pursuing a degree in classical philology Mike started dabbling with making soap for himself as a hobby. After sharing his soaps with family and friends, a business emerged and quickly grew until he opened his online store in 2011 and decided to pursue soapmaking fulltime...

Mondial began life as a brush manufacturer in Florence Italy. The company was started by Attilio Bagnoli in 1908 focusing on industrial brushes and over time expanded to include shaving brushes, for which they became famous...

Noble Otter was founded in 2017 by Cody Wick and his wife who began making bath soaps out of their home. The company aims to create products which tell stories through its fragrance, artwork and narratives, and prides itself on using natural ingredients...

Phoenix Artisan Accoutrements (PAA) is the brainchild of Eric Hodges, who's public persona uses the name Douglas Smythe, and Frances Towle. The brand is one of the most well-known and popular in the wet shaving community, and is known for innovative, quirky, themes and designs which are often based on science fiction...

Proraso is one of the oldest grooming products companies in Italy. In 1948, Ludovico's son, Piero Martelli, introduced Proraso, a pre-shave cream with a Eucalypus and Mint scent infused with Menthol which quickly become popular and today is known as the iconic Proraso Green...

Razorock was founded in Canada by Joseph Abbatangelo, who in 2009 enlisted his uncle, Michael Luorio, to take a trip to Tuscany in search of alum stones for Joseph's father-in-law a retired Italian barber.The brand is known for quality at an affordable price, with many of its products sourced from local Italian artisans...

Saponoficio Varesinowas established in 1945 by Dante Bardelli in the small town of Brebbia (Varese) near the shores of Lago Maggiore in Italy. It is considered a premium brand among shave soaps and reknowned for its luxurious soap base and sophisticated fragrances...

Stando is an online shaving store and producer of razors and brush handles in Poland. The company was started in 2017 by Stanislow Lowicki and began selling razors in 2020. Their razors, brush handles, and stands are reknowned for high quality craftsmanship at affordable prices.

Stirling Soap was started by Roderick and Amanda Lovan in 2012 after a trip to Scotland during which they fell in love with products with natural ingredients and decided to try their hand at making natural soaps. Today, Stirling is one of the most beloved and popular brands among wet shavers due to its reputation for high quality ingredients, reasonable prices, wide variety, and excellent customer service...

Introduced in 1959 by Maurer & Wirtz from Stolberg Germany, today  Tabac is owned by the Dalli Group which also owns Irisch Moos, Tosca, 4711, and many others. 

Taylor of Old Bond Street (TOBS) is as classic an English shave soap as you can find. Founded in 1854 by Jeremiah Taylor who opened his first barbershop on Old Bond Street in London, his first products were botanical-based hair and beard products which quickly became popular among the Victorian gentlemen.

The Goodfellas' Smile has a story similar to many of the superstars of wet shaving. The company was started by Nicola Donghi and his wife Luisa Locatelli during an economic downturn in 2010 when both found themselves out of work...

Westman Shaving was founded by Tiago Sousa in Portugal who performs all of the research, formulation, scent composition, testing, and product design with help from his wife...