Barbasol is an American brand of shaving cream, aftershave, and disposable razors created by MIT Professor Frank Shields in 1919 in Indianapolis.

It is currently owned by Perio, Inc.[1] MIT Professor Frank Shields set out to create a product that would provide for a less irritating shave.

In the mid-1950s, design engineer Robert P. Kaplan of Rochester, NY invented and patented the first aerosol shaving cream can, and the Barbasol Company changed the formula from the thick cream in a tube to the soft, fluffy foam familiar in the aerosol cans today.

They consolidated the Barbasol line to Original, Soothing Aloe, and Skin Conditioner, and added Pacific Rush.

Later, Barbasol released Sensitive Skin, Mountain Blast (a new fragrance), and Arctic Chill (menthol) to its line of shaving creams.

The company also used several famous spokesmen in their print ads through the years, including actors Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Joe Cook, musician Vincent Lopez, baseball players Babe Ruth and Rogers Hornsby, as well as football legend Knute Rockne.

[6] The team got involved as a sponsor in the NASCAR Busch Series in the late 1990s, sponsoring Dick Bown's team and drivers Chuck and Jim Bown, Jim Sauter, and Greg Biffle in eleven races in 1996, then going to Akins Motorsports and drivers Glenn Allen Jr. and Elton Sawyer starting in 1997.

In February 2012, Barbasol signed a five-year agreement with Major League Soccer side Columbus Crew that would see the brand become the club's shirt sponsor.

The tournament is played on the Grand National course of the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail in Opelika, Alabama.

In the 1993 science-fiction film Jurassic Park, an embryo cryopreservation container is hidden in a modified Barbasol can.