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The secret ingredient sheep contribute to our shave cream

Aside from wool and some good lamb steaks to throw on the barby, sheep also contribute a very important skincare product. They secrete lanolin from their backs into their wool to make it waterproof...

Oscar Wilde

famously once quipped 'there's only one thing worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about'

Some advice is shit – so it pays to be your own best coach.

It's important to learn your own game, understand it and be able to judge what advice is good advice and useful to you, and what advice is not.  As we are fast approaching summer in the southern he...

Sharp as a razor - by Mason Feehan

It all started with a meeting, talking to my soon to be boss and him giving me grief about the scruffy, slightly ginger beard I’d been sporting for the better part of a year and a half. Given my ch...

Benjamin Weeks, son of the south to adulthood in Sydney

From the Hebrew name (Binyamin) which means “son of the south”. Read on to see how the Southern boy adapts to Sydney life...

Of Beards and Men

You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion. Perhaps it’s the commitment that growing a beard requires, there is a certain discipline to it. Dion divulges all on the beard experiment...

A Homecoming

I doubt there is a better feeling than the uplift in spirit you get when you give a little something back. Recently Triumph and Disaster was presented with an opportunity to do exactly that, to gi...

The Humble Ponga

Growing up in Aoteoroa the humble Ponga Fern (or for those schooled up on their latin - Cyathea cumingii), belonging to the Cyatheaceae family, was literally everywhere.

Hitting the road with Liam

Forming one half of the dynamic duo who look after Triumph & Disaster’s New Zealand stores, Liam Steel is passionate about his role. Hitting the road with Liam it seems, on the face of it, th...

Introducing our latest soap A+R

Whereas our Shearer’s Soap was designed for washing off a hard day’s work, our newly launched A+R soap is a more gentle experience. A+R is infused with an exotic blend of cedar, juniper, cypress an...