Thread: 1880s-1890s shave?

You are all familiar with Col Conk products. It's not a made up name it was a real person and in the mid to late 1800s he started his business.

The idea was to make available to the general public all the fine products used in barber Shops of the day from shampoos and bathing products to all manner of soaps and after shaves and colognes and associated shaving paraphernalia. He sold things you couldn't find in the the local general store. He hired peddlers and outfitted wagons and they roamed the S.W selling their wares. Conk was based out of Albuquerque and he became a very rich man through his business.

So, this is more evidence most of the stuff we see in modern barber shops was around back then in one form or another.