 After the shaving cream sales increased, they outgrew Napco and The Barbasol Company was created.Frank Shields established The Barbasol Company in 1920, which owned the brand for 42 years.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.