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Francesco's Barber Club / Singapore
Quality styling products formulated in Singapore, for the hairstyles and heat we know best. Starting with our hair styling balm.
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The club
Francesco’s Barber Club is a social initiative, not a barbershop. We’re built around one simple act: giving a good haircut, and the dignity that comes with it, to the people who are most often overlooked.
We’re named after Pope Francis, Papa Francesco, and we live by his words: “Why them and not me?” The skills and blessings placed in our hands are meant to be shared.
About the clubTo change the world we must be good to those who cannot repay us.
— Pope Francis
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Our story
The difference
Ch. 01 — The climate
Thirty-degree afternoons, near-constant humidity, and hair that still needs to look the same at six as it did at ten.
Most styling products are made for cooler, drier cities. Here they melt, flake or flatten by lunch. Francesco’s set out to make one that doesn’t: a balm that holds through the heat and still moves when you want it to.
Ch. 02 — On the chair
One balm, restyled all day.
Ch. 03 — The formula
A full year of R&D went into this one jar: a strong, flexible hold that stays restyleable throughout the day, with a silk matte finish — matte in appearance with a subtle, natural sheen. Finished with a refreshing minty coconut scent.
Francesco’s Barber Club
The scent
A refreshing minty coconut, close to the skin and gone by evening.
How to use
A fingertip for short hair, a thumbnail for longer.
Warm between palms until clear, then work through damp or dry hair.
Shape with fingers or a comb. Reshape any time through the day.
Nº 001 · Hair styling balm · 120g
Quality within reach. Every jar supports the club’s free haircuts.
Francesco’s Barber Club / Singapore
Who we are
Francesco’s Barber Club uses haircuts to bless the last, the lost and the least: the people who are too often overlooked.
We believe everyone deserves to look and feel their best, and a fresh cut is one of the simplest ways to show someone they matter.
The work
We bring haircuts to people who rarely get the chance to sit in a barber’s chair.
A good cut won’t change everything. But it can change how someone sees themselves, and how they walk back out into the world.
What we believe
Francesco is Italian for Francis. We took our name from Pope Francis, who spent his life standing with the people at the margins, and we try to carry the same spirit into every haircut we give.
Our skills, our time and our blessings were given to us to be shared.
Good grooming shouldn’t be a luxury. What we make is built to be affordable and easy to get.
Everyone deserves to look and feel their best, whoever they are and wherever they’re from.
The balm
Our hair styling balm was formulated in Singapore, after a full year of R&D. It brings together everything we’ve loved most in hair products over the years, at a price that keeps it within reach.
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What we live by
To change the world we must be good to those who cannot repay us.
— Pope Francis