Using Williams since Abbey Road was released. Well water off a dry puck, breaking in a Semogue 1470.
Another Williams thread
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Williams is the soap my father used to teach me how to shave when I was a teen. It is a staple in my den and I have used it for years, it's a very good soap.
I never had a problem with lathering and we do have hard water. Love the clean scent.
Truth be told I liked the old Williams soap better but the modern is still great.
In the last couple of years I have been trying other soaps too as i like variety but always have Williams when I want it!
I buy it at Wegmans grocery store for $0.99 a puck so you can't beat it on price - I have enough pucks to last me for quite a while.
I do experiment a bit with grating Williams with another soap - it's interesting.
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I never had a problem with lathering and we do have hard water. Love the clean scent.
Truth be told I liked the old Williams soap better but the modern is still great.
In the last couple of years I have been trying other soaps too as i like variety but always have Williams when I want it!
I buy it at Wegmans grocery store for $0.99 a puck so you can't beat it on price - I have enough pucks to last me for quite a while.
I do experiment a bit with grating Williams with another soap - it's interesting.
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Williams mug is my go to shave soap, modern or vintage I get great shaves whit it no problems whit it at all. I personally love the soap it’s slamming stuff for me.
I am a fan of Williams, been using it for a while. I switch off from Arko to Williams usually putting the stub of my Arko on top of the puck and have the best of both worlds for a while anyway. Great soap in my book.
I am of the same mind. I have a feeling that Williams and Arko will be my only soaps in a few years after I finish off everything I have. I still sometimes toss back and forth between liking my 7 soap rotation. Then each of these come up in rotation and I wonder why i use anything else.
I use Williams nearly every day, and it works great for me. On the days that I don't use Williams, I use Tabac. When I am traveling, I use Arko shave stick. These three are the only soaps that I now use after some time spent in my early DE shaving days with varieties of van der Hagen, Edwin Jagger, an obscure German soap, and other soap brands that I don't remember.
Williams is an excellent soap and punches above its weight class. It is seriously slick and forgiving. The only real trick is to break it in. I soak new pucks over night and it is good to go. It even improves with daily use as it further hydrates.
I learned how to lather Williams after about a year of having it. The thing is that my skin doesn't like it too much. It dries out too easily so I use it seldomly.
I do something similar: I out a little bit of hot water on the puck and let it sit for a few minutes before each shave. That brings out the slickness and makes it lather more easily.
Williams is pretty much all I use now. Just received 6 more pucks of it in the mail this morning.
So few? I got 24 at the beginning of the year.
I already had some. I usually get it at a local grocery store but I bought all they had a couple weeks ago. Hopefully they will get some more.
175 pucks for my part, I very like the stuff
Yeah, but those have to last you for a decade my friend!
No problem. I only need to get about 140 shaves/puck. I get over 200.
