Objects for use about the person, personal care, hair brushes, combs, bathroom accessories, personal tools
Objects for use about the person, personal care, hair brushes, combs, bathroom accessories, personal tools

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Brush / Comb / Wash

Traditionally made hairbrushes of either oiled pear-wood and eight rows of medium stiff light natural bristle, or waxed beech mounted with ten rows of..

Natural hairbrushes
£14.50 – £15.00
Two gentlemen’s brushes made of pear-wood and moderately stiff black wild-pig bristle. The larger is an oval handleless hairbrush for the shaping and ..

Gentlemen's hair or beard brushes
£7.50 – £15.50
Smaller hairbrushes of either oiled pear-wood mounted with seven rows of soft white goat-hair for smoothing the downy hair and gently massaging babies..

Hairbrushes for babies & children
£9.00 – £11.50
Natural ox-horn combs in three sizes, a small (about 88mm) single broad toothed comb for pockets, wallets, handbags, purses, or travelling, a medium s..

Horn combs
£8.50 – £14.50
Hardwood combs from the Groetsch family of Enzendorf, Germany. Handmade of local timber (pear, whitebeam, wild as well as true service - all of which ..

Groetsch wooden combs
£8.00 – £16.00
A very simple take on the classic dressing table hand mirror made with a waxed beech handle and back around a circular, approximately 11cm diameter mi..

Hand mirror
£21.50
A long handled chrome plated straight cut closed comb safety razor from Merkur of Solingen. Since the 1900s Emil Hermes which eventually took the name..

Merkur longer handled safety razor
£5.50 – £31.50
A compact chrome plated travel safety razor with a leather case from Merkur of Solingen. Since the 1900's the company of Emil Hermes (which eventually..

Compact travel razor
£5.50 – £32.50
A strong yet lightweight double edged safety razor manufactured from marbled red and black Bakelite by Merkur of Solingen, Germany. Since the early 19..

Bakelite safety razor
£5.50 – £27.00
A carbon steel 5/8” (the depth of the blade) full hollow ground razor, with a blond Cellidur handle. Dovo of Solingen have specialised in the manufact..

Straight razor
£67.50
Made in Carnforth, Lancashire by the craftsmen of Great Britain’s last remaining commercial hornworks from the the horn of Nigerian long horned fulani..

Shaving brush no.3 – Ox-horn
£65.50
A maple and badger hair shaving brush, 'soft' concrete cup, and handmade cedar-glycerine soap. Badger is renowned for its excellent lather, and softne..

Shaving set
£10.50 – £45.00
Shaving creams - hot processed shaving soaps made in Florence to a still secret family formula since the 1940s. With a tallow, coconut oil, and eucaly..

Proraso, Italian shaving soaps and lotions
£4.80 – £14.00
A thick black potassium olive and olive husk oil hammam soap produced in Salon-de-Provence using traditional processing methods, simmered and concentr..

Savon noir pour le corps
£12.50
Either green 72% olive oil, or white 72% palm oil soaps from Salon-de-Provence where they have been made using the Marseille method since 1900. Batch ..

Savon de Marseille
£4.00
Approximately 2.5kg of 72% olive oil soap from Salon-de-Provence where it has been made using the Marseille method since 1900. Batch processed in larg..

Large block of savon de Marseille
£31.00
A 150 gram bars of olive and laurel oil soap made to an ancient Aleppo recipe in Salon-de-Provence, France. Traditionally hot processed by long simmer..

Savon d’Alep
£4.00
Handmade vegetable soap from the town of Vaasa on the west coast of Finland, with added pine tar, tea tree oil, or sea buckthorn. The pine tar soap i..

Vaasan soap
£4.50
A rich gentleman’s soap combining oatmeal and glycerine with the classic Agua de Colonia scent, an eau de cologne produced by Alvarez Gómez in Madrid ..

Agua de Colonia soap
£14.50
First registered in 1958 and originally sold as a smokers toothpaste due to its intense mint flavour and cleansing, polishing properties. From the beg..

Marvis toothpaste
£6.50
Borrowing its flavour from the classic strong mint toothpaste as registered by Earl Franco Cella di Rivara in 1958, Marvis ‘Eau de Bouche’ is used dil..

Marvis Eau de Bouche
£18.00
Blue and white stoneware lidded toothbrush holder and beaker. Handmade and decorated at a polish pottery and craft co-operative...

Toothbrush beaker
£12.50
Toothbrushes made of untreated beechwood and sterilised, bleached natural bristle. Medium hard, and fairly densely packed these feel remarkably good i..

Natural toothbrushes
£5.50 – £6.00
The classic 'Lovisa' nail brush, made from oiled oak and tampico fibre, from the Agave Lechugilla a plant native to the highland deserts of northern M..

Nail brushes no.1 & no.3, Lovisa
£11.00 – £12.00
A nailbrush of oiled boreal birch and golden tampico fibre hand-stitched by the crafts people of a Finnish visually impaired workers cooperative. Tamp..

Nail brush No.2, simple
£10.00
A pure horsehair and oiled oak hand pulled bath or shower brush, with a longer handle for harder to reach places. Used instead of a sponge or flannel ..

Lovisa bathing brush
£19.00
A body brush with an oiled birch stock cut from slow growing Fennoscandian boreal forests, and hand stitched with horse hair blend bristles by the cra..

Finnish bath and sauna brush
£18.00
A large soft golden horsehair bath or shower brush, perhaps the most luxurious of the bath brushes. For lathering and massaging the skin. From the Swe..

Big bath brush
£22.50
A natural hand and sustainably harvested sponge from the eastern Mediterranean sea. Approximately 16 to 20 centimetres in diameter. Natural sponge is ..

Bath sponge
£22.50
Natural hand and sustainably harvested sponges from the eastern Mediterranean sea. Natural sponge is generally softer than its synthetic equivalents, ..

Bath sponge with duck
£15.50
Natural white(ish) volcanic pumice stones drilled through and threaded with cotton cord. Used wet to remove calluses and hardened dry skin. Pumice is ..

Pumice stone with cord
£5.00
Hand made face brushes of either soft white goat-hair or golden horse-hair stitched into oiled European oak stocks. The goat-hair brush is for dry use..

Face brushes
£14.50
5" surgical grade stainless steel twin sharp tips for accurate cutting. Made in Sheffield by William Whiteley & Sons, scissor makers since 17..

Nurses scissors
£14.50
6" surgical steel, twin pointed blades. Designed for use in operating theatres, for tough materials and fine work, they are more generally the be..

Dissection scissors
£14.00
6.5" Bright carbon steel, traditional cockade design barber's scissors. Forged and ground in Sheffield by William Whiteley & Sons, scisso..

Barber's scissors
£16.50
4 inch hot forged nickle plated steel moustache scissors with short straight blades for accurate cutting and enlarged rounded tips to prevent accident..

Moustache scissors
£18.50
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Nail Scissors
£14.00
Clothes brushes of waxed pear-wood and strong black natural hog bristle in a standard or pocket format. The pocket brush has two rows of bristle being..

Standard and pocket clothes brushes
£6.00 – £17.50
A longer handled medium hard black and white hog hair clothes brush with seven fine dense rows of bristle set into a waxed pear-wood stock. For the du..

Cashmere and fine clothes brush
£25.50
A hand stitched brush of oiled beech and thick fronds of natural latex rubber which effectively pulls lint, scurf, and animal hair from clothing, soft..

Lint brush
£21.00
Soft shoe polishing brushes made from oiled beech and light or dark horsehair. Best used after the shoes have been allowed to absorb the (sparingly ap..

Shoe brushes in dark or light horsehair
£13.50
Daubing brushes of beech and horsehair. These round daubers are for the application of polish to shoes or carved furniture, but also make ideal small ..

Wax or polish daubers
£9.00
Pairs of natural bone collar stiffeners, or collar bones if you prefer. In two sizes, small measuring approximately 55mm by 7mm, and large 65mm by 8mm..

Collar stiffeners
£6.50
Natural ox-horn shoe horns, hand formed and polished in Carnforth, Lancashire, using techniques and processes that have barely changed for centuries. ..

Shoe horns
£12.50 – £42.50
Lightweight city umbrellas or parasols handmade by the craftsmen of Wakao umbrella studio of Taitō City, Japan - umbrella makers, pedagogues, and rest..

Whangee cane umbrellas
£165.00
Lightweight smaller coloured city umbrellas or parasols handmade by the craftsmen of Wakao umbrella studio of Taitō City, Japan - umbrella makers, ped..

Fit-up umbrellas
£165.00
An unusual beech handled natural crepe cleaning ‘brush’ for suede and nubuck. The folded rubber flaps or ‘bristles’ grip and help lift flattened suede..

Suede cleaning ‘brush’
£6.00
Traditionally vegetable tanned reindeer leather coin purse from northern Scandinavia. Simply squeeze the sides gently to raise the helical flaps. The ..

Reindeer leather coin purse
£15.00
100% spruce resin chewing gum. For millennia the woodsmen of Swedish Lapland have chewed the hardened resin of picea abies, the Norwegian Pine. Initia..

Natural woodsmans gum
£6.00
Family made in the arctic forests of Swedish Lapland from sustainably harvested wild spruce resin and beeswax kåd-salva is a traditional scandinavian ..

Spruce resin ointment
£28.00
A fragrant balm made only of beeswax and pine tar oil harvested and kilned in the boreal forests of Swedish Lapland. Traditionally carried throughout ..

Nordic Summer
£11.00
Woven using raw undyed, unbleached linen for the pile, with a cotton backing, giving a linen content of 66% by weight. Woven in Northern Ireland, by a..

Linen friction towels
£7.50 – £36.00
Raw un-lacquered brass wall mounted soap holders of a type seen since the 1950s throughout France; in public buildings, cafes, restaurants, and campsi..

Porte savon
£8.70 – £34.00
A hand-cast fine 'soft' concrete soap dish embossed with the (Swedish) braille symbols [⠎⠧⠡⠇] which is tvål, the Swedish f..

Braille soap dish
£26.00
A simple two part draining soap dish from Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. Made from hinoki, a type of slow growing cypress native to the central Japanese i..

Hinoki soap dish
£24.00
A beautifully hand-woven and deceptively sturdy water resistant split bamboo basket from Ehime Prefecture in southern Japan of a type traditionally us..

Onsen basket
£60.00
A traditional galvanised steel hot water bottle from Japan. Usually filled with hand (bath?) hot - not boiling - water, wrapped in thick cloth, and pl..

Yutanpo, a Japanese hot water bottle
£35.00
Pairs of traditionally cut dice with weight ground faces - the spots varying in size approximately proportionally to number with the intention of mini..

Pair of bone pocket dice
£14.00