What is all the rave about Williams Mug Soap?

[Baby Face]

I was just wondering what this rave was all about with this soap. I have used it before and I found it ok, but nothing all that special really. I just bought another puck today to retry it since I now have a better brush to try it with. When I used it before I had a cheap synthetic department store type brush and I now have a Simpson badger hair brush that is way ahead of that one. Maybe it will improve, or at least do the soap the justice it should have done. Well, I guess I'll find out soon enough. The pucks I can get are only $1.99 and in the ingredients it does list tallow and I have seen on here that this is one of the items that makes this soap special.

L8R, Baby Face

 

[sandmountainslim]

Ummmm......
"Special"??

You will find that the people here either love Williams or feel like I do and think that it lathers like dishsoap and smells like bugspray!!

I guess it's saving grace is that it has been around since the 19th Century and people are just used to seeing it.

Wp

 

[David in Boston]

Guess it is a great example of YMMV.

Don't really care for it.

Plus I can get a puck of VDH for the same price.

VDH is a superior soap to Williams.

Of course YMMV.

 

[mmack66]

To sum up the highlights, it is inexpensive and available almost everywhere.

 

[ek.310]

Mem uses from this soap were..well..the aftermath was too much for me to leave the house..my wife felt bad ;-(

 

[michiganlover]

You will find that the people here either love Williams or feel like I do and think that it lathers like dishsoap and smells like bugspray!!

+1

Williams is just about the worst shaving product I have tried (the new formula Erasmic stick is even worse, as it won't even produce anything resembling a usable lather).

It smells like Citronella bug dope, and no matter how hard I try I can't get a usable lasting lather from it.

Plus I can get a puck of VDH for the same price. VDH is a superior soap to Williams.

Fully agree. VDH is one of my favorite products, and is far superior to Williams.

Williams has underwent multiple reformulations; the present difficult to lather product is a shadow of the produce that existed in the 1950's, and 1960's as I understand it. I am convinced, the only reason it continues to sell at all, is because many people are oblivious to the fact that other choices exist.

 

[luvmysuper]

I was just wondering what this rave was all about with this soap. I have used it before and I found it ok, but nothing all that special really. I just bought another puck today to retry it since I now have a better brush to try it with. When I used it before I had a cheap synthetic department store type brush and I now have a Simpson badger hair brush that is way ahead of that one. Maybe it will improve, or at least do the soap the justice it should have done. Well, I guess I'll find out soon enough. The pucks I can get are only $1.99 and in the ingredients it does list tallow and I have seen on here that this is one of the items that makes this soap special.

L8R, Baby Face

If you develop the skill necessary to get a good lather from this soap (and a good lather is VERY possible) it is a really great soap.
It does take work to get a great lather and it is not a soap for the lazy whip it up and slap it on kind of guy.
Some folks hate it for whatever reason they state, but I like it and it is part of my regular rotation with all of the expensive imports that I have (including MWF by the way)

 

[Schwert]

It is a great soap...I much prefer it over VdH....

Load plenty of soap...thick cream...then face lather it into a volume of goodness. The bug spray smell is a man-soap scent.

Letting the puck soak with a half-teaspoon of hot water for a bit before loading your brush is a good idea.

I think most people who cannot lather this are just not loading their brush well. It is absolutely freaking amazing soap for less than two bucks.

 

[TheBigL]

I regularly use my Williams with great results. I think it takes a Week of Williams to really appreciate it.

Also I cannot get a good lather/shave out of VDH soap. I've got the white and pinkish one. Every shave with those are disasters.

 

[sandmountainslim]

Also I cannot get a good lather/shave out of VDH soap. I've got the white and pinkish one. Every shave with those are disasters.

Any more talk like that and I will be sendin' some more Lord blades yer way
Wp

 

[Gray Wolf]

They used the W word, wrote the name that should remain nameless.
They should consider themselves rebuked most severely!

 

[RodneyZuro]

I wish I would have seen this post before starting my other thread. I obviously didn't have very good results. My puck was on sale for 50 cents and I have yet to get my money's worth

 

[azmark]

Wouldn't call it a "rave" but just one of those inexpensive products that work for some folks. I call it the "VW Bug" of shaving. It's a classic for some.

 

[Topgumby]

Pa, why are those city slickers always bashin' Williams?

Well, Ope, some fellers ain't never learned how to use it.

How come, Pa?

Y'see, son, some people are always tryin' to buy happiness. You know, like old Ben Weaver. They just kind of miss the simple, good things in life.

But Pa, I heard that Williams is hard to lather?

No, Opie, it' ain't difficult, but you have to soak it good, and use a mess of water, and make sure you load up your brush real well. Some fellers just give up and then go chasin' after soaps 'n creams that'll do the work by themselves.

Don't it stink, Pa?

No, I don't think so, and even Otis smells clean after a good Williams shave.

But what about Barney, Pa?

Son, not everybody can use Williams. Barney's a good deputy, but I think he's better off just goin' to see Floyd when he wants a good, honest Williams shave. He can barely handle that canned foam, let alone an American tradition that's been around since, well, since before your Aunt Bea was even born.

That long, Pa?

Yes son, that long. You stick with Williams, son, and you'll know how to make a lather that a man can be proud of. You never know about them fancy fellers with them foreign sounding soaps, pretty soon they'll want to do somethin' crazy like reformulate Old Spice or put Aqua Velva in plastic bottles.

I think your just joshin' about that, Pa!

Yeah, Opie, I suppose nobody'd be that much of a durn fool, huh?

 

[TravelingMan82]

Pa, why are those city slickers always bashin' Williams?

Well, Ope, some fellers ain't never learned how to use it.

How come, Pa?

Y'see, son, some people are always tryin' to buy happiness. You know, like old Ben Weaver. They just kind of miss the simple, good things in life.

But Pa, I heard that Williams is hard to lather?

No, Opie, it' ain't difficult, but you have to soak it good, and use a mess of water, and make sure you load up your brush real well. Some fellers just give up and then go chasin' after soaps 'n creams that'll do the work by themselves.

Don't it stink, Pa?

No, I don't think so, and even Otis smells clean after a good Williams shave.

But what about Barney, Pa?

Son, not everybody can use Williams. Barney's a good deputy, but I think he's better off just goin' to see Floyd when he wants a good, honest Williams shave. He can barely handle that canned foam, let alone an American tradition that's been around since, well, since before your Aunt Bea was even born.

That long, Pa?

Yes son, that long. You stick with Williams, son, and you'll know how to make a lather that a man can be proud of. You never know about them fancy fellers with them foreign sounding soaps, pretty soon they'll want to do somethin' crazy like reformulate Old Spice or put Aqua Velva in plastic bottles.

I think your just joshin' about that, Pa!

Yeah, Opie, I suppose nobody'd be that much of a durn fool, huh?

 

[luvmysuper]

There you have it!
If you can't get Williams to lather, you are Barney Fife.
PM me for your one bullet.

 

[Loner16]

Pa, why are those city slickers always bashin' Williams?

Well, Ope, some fellers ain't never learned how to use it.

How come, Pa?

Y'see, son, some people are always tryin' to buy happiness. You know, like old Ben Weaver. They just kind of miss the simple, good things in life.

But Pa, I heard that Williams is hard to lather?

No, Opie, it' ain't difficult, but you have to soak it good, and use a mess of water, and make sure you load up your brush real well. Some fellers just give up and then go chasin' after soaps 'n creams that'll do the work by themselves.

Don't it stink, Pa?

No, I don't think so, and even Otis smells clean after a good Williams shave.

But what about Barney, Pa?

Son, not everybody can use Williams. Barney's a good deputy, but I think he's better off just goin' to see Floyd when he wants a good, honest Williams shave. He can barely handle that canned foam, let alone an American tradition that's been around since, well, since before your Aunt Bea was even born.

That long, Pa?

Yes son, that long. You stick with Williams, son, and you'll know how to make a lather that a man can be proud of. You never know about them fancy fellers with them foreign sounding soaps, pretty soon they'll want to do somethin' crazy like reformulate Old Spice or put Aqua Velva in plastic bottles.

I think your just joshin' about that, Pa!

Yeah, Opie, I suppose nobody'd be that much of a durn fool, huh?

Now, THAT's funny!

And I'm a Williams lover... but I don't take myself too seriously!

 

[sandmountainslim]

While I am a Great Critic of Williams......I gotta say that Topgumby of The Williams Defense Squad cracks me up
Wp

 

[opliko]

In the zen-like relaxing ritual of shaving we partake in here at B&B why would you want to do more work to try and get better lather when you can just use a better product? Sure its cheap but I'm guessing for not much more (or the same, VDH) you can get easier, better lather.

 

[82R100]

In the zen-like relaxing ritual of shaving we partake in here at B&B why would you want to do more work to try and get better lather when you can just use a better product? Sure its cheap but I'm guessing for not much more (or the same, VDH) you can get easier, better lather.

The thrill of the challenge.