We consider the space \(\mathscr {H}_L ^{s,r} (O)\) consisting of all local Sobolev distributions of order s on an open set O whose Sobolev wave front set of order r is contained in the closed conic set \(L\subseteq O\times (\mathbb {R}^m\backslash \{0\})\) . We introduce a locally convex topology on \(\mathscr {H}_L ^{s,r} (O)\) and show that the ordinary product of smooth functions uniquely extends to a continuous bilinear mapping \(\mathscr {H}_{L_1} ^{r_1,r'} (O) \times \mathscr {H}_{L_2} ^{r_2,r''} (O) \rightarrow \mathscr {H}_{L} ^{s,r} (O)\) , for appropriate s and r when \(L_1\) and \(L_2\) are in a favorable position. The key ingredient in our proof is to employ Hörmander’s idea of considering the pullback by the diagonal map \(x\mapsto (x,x)\) of the tensor product of two distributions.