English Shaving Shop
Towel in Cape Town

Our products are manufactured to exacting standards set by our fore-bearers in our warehouse in the bustling commercial. The offers of quality hand made shaving brushes, shaving lotions and after shave perfumes to discerning gentlemen the world over.

We hand-make all our products, with a range of hand-crafted shaving brushes, shaving blades and assorted creams, soaps and hair brushes. This is either done with clippers and a pair of scissors, but for the man who requires the ultimate in a beard trim, the face is then shaved shaping the beard into the desired style and all the procedure used in a facial shave is used for the executive beard trim. Is exactly the same as the above, but it gives a unique modern look to men who are thinning on the top and therefore have decided to remove the entirety of the remaining hair on the head. Most of the modern day American famous film-stars use this method as it seems to be the new way men are going for a modern look. Similar to the above, but he either requires a cut that of a small gentleman in a Dickensian style, or a style where the young man can look fairly normal in class and in school and place gell on his hair for going out in the evenings. A layer is placed on the complete face area and is made from papaya and pineapple fruit extracts. These have a tendency to fight each other and therefore as they are left on the skin for between 5 and 7 minutes they appear to the person in the barber’s chair as though a cling film has been pulled over the face. This is not visible, but that is how a customer feels it is working. When completed, it is cleaned off with a hot towel and the customer feels very much fresher and younger. Mr. Cobbs use this as an advertisement and therefore do not profit from it to introduce it to clients wishing to have their skin in a much nicer, better order. World famous for our barbers who give the clients any style they wish from the normal short back and sides and scissor work on top to the most outrages modern styles that are in fashion today. Our most famous shave though out the world as clients come back time and time again from every country in the world for this unique pampering service using two hot towels, facial cleaners, pre-shave treatments and after shave herbal balm to give customers that unique feel of being 10 years younger as they leave the store. We are proud to continue in the traditions of quality and luxury of a different era. Victorian England saw the City of London become less of an industrial centre with the white collared population replacing the working class. This left many craftsmen by trade with limited options of either accepting work in the country as farm labourers or immigrating to greener pastures and the possibility of better work opportunities. A few months later The City Of London Brush Makers opened its doors in South Africa with the English brush making business still operating in Britain. This enabled them to take full advantage of the craftsmen who remained in England while re-establishing themselves in South Africa. The company still remains in the same family today. With the favourable exchange rate and the loyal support from our valued customers and employees, the company is still growing from strength to strength. We now supply people throughout the world with our high quality handcrafted brushes. The African Faux Ivory Company We are extremely privileged to have a close working relationship with The African Faux Ivory Company. After strenuous research and years of teething problems this well known company has finely perfected the ultimate faux ivory (mock/fake ivory). This ivory is used on a whole range of our brushes. All made to the same design as they were over 200 years ago in real ivory.