When WILLIAMS ruled
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Great stuff. Im more than intrigued by the “exquisite for toilet” claim. I’m gonna go flush a stick of Arko and see what happens.
CzechCzar
Use the Fat, Luke!
The toilet would smell more like toilet
malocchio:
Yeah...I remember those days 'starting off' w/ Williams soap.
"Famous for its lather since 1840". Williams slogan
Yeah...I remember those days 'starting off' w/ Williams soap.
I actually really like the shaving soap 
50 years of buying Willliam's Mug pucks over the counter. Usually the only 'tablet' in stock, once Old Spice disappeared. Heck yeah, I liked it fine.
I love these old advertisements. Never tried Williams Shaving Soap.
Many of my days start with William's. Today was a William's shave in fact. First soap I used and have been using for a long time. Great stuff.
Thanks for the memories!!
Vintage Williams is still as good or better than anything made since. Shame they ruined it. (Best in the world to somewhat usable IS ruined... doesn't mean its the worst in the world).
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I can't believe they don't dig up the 1920's formula and just charge $10 - $12 for it , I'd be happy to pay for the original recipe soap.
Here is a thread from many years ago that has a lot of great information, history and pictures. It really fueled my love of vintage Williams.
www.badgerandblade.com
Identifying Vintage Williams
As myself, and others have said, Vintage Williams was amazing stuff. In this thread, I am going to attempt to collect all of the information we know about Vintage Williams together, so that those of you who wish to locate a puck of this great soap can know what you are looking for. (this...
www.badgerandblade.com
And the building in Glastonbury CT where it was made.
Nabisco truly was "Graham Crackers" for discontinuing this fine soap.
Nabisco truly was "Graham Crackers" for discontinuing this fine soap.
I've been to Glastonbury, CT many times.
Me, too. But that assumes that all of the original ingredients are still available. Think of the disruption Stirling faced with their mutton tallow, or maybe some ingredients were pulled off the market due to health issues.
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Very true ..... Imagine what Lilac Vegetal smelled like when it contained real oil of lilacs and real animal civet oil !
I've had a puck of vintage Williams a long time and decided to give it a try.
As I worked outside yesterday, I used the puck in the shower last night to get the dried outer layer off and then put it in the mug for this morning's shave.
Wow was I surprised! I always had issues using the modern formulation. Not so with this stuff. It lathered easily and I had plenty of it! Nice and slick too.
Great stuff. I'd buy today it if it could be reproduced.
As I worked outside yesterday, I used the puck in the shower last night to get the dried outer layer off and then put it in the mug for this morning's shave.
Wow was I surprised! I always had issues using the modern formulation. Not so with this stuff. It lathered easily and I had plenty of it! Nice and slick too.
Great stuff. I'd buy today it if it could be reproduced.
GeronimoWSB
Multilingual Beer
Does anyone have the ingredient list of the good version ? I haven't found much and wanted to compare to the new version.
