Irving Barber Company

Irving Barber Company is an American maker of barbering tools and equipment, based in La Habra, California [3]. Founded in 2013, it produces straight razors, workstation mats, barber capes and related accessories aimed at working barbers [1][2]. Its central product is a shavette-style straight razor built to take replaceable blades, which the company launched as a patent-pending design.

The company sells hardware for the barber trade rather than grooming cosmetics, and its operations are US-based. It remains active as a business, though its public news channel has been quiet for several years.

The company was started in 2013 by two cousins who, according to the company, had more than twenty years of combined experience in the barber industry [2]. They came to feel that the market offered little real variety, describing a steady stream of the same products reappearing under different names. Rather than add another such item, they set out to redesign the tools themselves.

After more than three years of development, working with partners that included Axiom Enterprises Inc., Young Design Inc. and the Proven Patents Law Firm, the company launched its first patent-pending razor design [2]. The individual founders' names are not publicly disclosed; the company identifies them only as two cousins.

Irving Barber Company's catalogue centres on barbering equipment: patented razors, workstation mats, barber capes, accessories and replacement parts [1]. The signature item is a replaceable-blade shavette straight razor, offered in variants such as the Black Cerakote Razor and in bundled sets like the All Black Set and the Build Your Kit range [1].

The replaceable-blade razor is the company's main proprietary claim, developed over the multi-year process described above and introduced as a patent-pending product [2]. Products are sold directly through the company's own online store and are also carried by third-party barber-supply retailers.

The company frames itself around rethinking barber tools and how they are used from day to day. Its stated aim is to keep taking a creative look at how tools function in everyday use and to keep widening what it offers the trade. The focus is professional throughout: the products are meant for working barbers, and the company runs a wholesale channel alongside its retail storefront [5].

Irving Barber Company remains active. Its online store is operational, with a live catalogue, current pricing and a 2026 copyright notice [1]. Its news blog, which documented appearances at United States barber trade shows such as BarberCon LA and ISSE Long Beach, has not been updated since October 2021 [4]. The business is run from the United States.