wilkinson sword soap can't lather

[smokeydave]

Hi
All I have just brought this soap

I just seam it can't lather up, have tried the kent bk 8 witch can
Lather mwf with ease no probes, have tried my ej best badger to no avail,Evan tried my horse hair travel brush non can cut it against this soap. It is a shame really as I like the smell,
What can I do to this soap to make Work

Many thanks
Dave

 

[clk]

From what I understand, nothing you can do will make it lather.

 

[dashmaverick]

More product and more water.

 

[malocchio]

horrible stuff...ranks at the bottom with caswell-massey

 

[Geologos]

Just a very nice bowl to put your wilkinson stick inside!

 

[Shaverraver666]

I had the same problem with the new formulation Erasmic shave sticks.... they were terrible and simply would not lather!!!! Never tried any of the Wilkinson Sword soaps ...

 

[finotti]

I've read around here that it is indeed a bad shaving soap... But the stick, on the other hand, is very good. I don't know if the scent is similar, though.

Maybe your best bet is just forget about the tub... (Bath/face soap, maybe?)

 

[creamgravy]

horrible stuff...ranks at the bottom with caswell-massey

+1
It's like spraying cheap deodorant on your face, I used mine for breaking in a new brush then chucked the soap.

Just a very nice bowl to put your wilkinson stick inside!

I went for a nice Palmolive/tea tree oil mix.

I remember it being easy to lather though... use lot's of water.

 

[whereisandy]

I tried my best to use this as a shaving soap but gave up after a few tries. Then I tried using it a soap in the shower and it wouldn't even work for that. Now it siits in some landfill somewhere. Glad it was relatively cheap. I liked the smell, too, but a horrible failure as a soap!

 

[deoxy4]

I did not have great luck with this soap. I used it up in preshave prep. I will not reorder. It has been discussed before here.

http://badgerandblade.com/reviews/showproduct.php?product=5719)

 

[lindyhop66]

What if you popped it out of the bowl and rub it on your whiskers and try to face lather the Wilkinson Sword soap?

 

[smokeydave]

Thank you all thought it as just bad tech. I guess you get what we pay for, however arko was the same price and the just dose not stop lathering.

I agree have had better soaps , not the question Is what dose one do with this soap.

 

[Gustav]

Get Yourself the shave stick, IMO it give the same sort of super creamy lather I get from SIM or Tabac. The Wilko-stick outranks Palmolive in my book.

 

[Luc]

Get Yourself the shave stick, IMO it give the same sort of super creamy lather I get from SIM or Tabac. The Wilko-stick outranks Palmolive in my book.

+1

The shave stick is not the same formula and works way better!

 

[pcumby]

I picked up a tub of this at Wal mart for 3 bucks
I use it to break in my boars
In my experience it's useful for little else

 

[Haggises]

I've tossed two soaps so far. The blue bowl was one of them. I found everything else to be better and ended up using it only to help clean out brushes from funk or old soap.
I also like the smell, but always ended up with runny or bubbly lather. It's ubiquitous in the UK though - so someone must be using it.....

 

[Jeff C]

I got some a couple years ago and had the same problem, one of the worst soaps ever, think I threw it away.

 

[ReAndyMator]

Not easy to lather but I got it to work - it was the first soap I bought, and was also using a Wikinson Sword synthetic brush. Didn't work particularly well. I found the way to get it to work was to gouge out the middle bit, and fill it with water (1tbsp or so). Leave it overnight, and then scoop out pea sized lumps into a bowl, after which you can lather it. Not particularly well, but I tend to take it with me when I'm travelling, as I don't have to worry about tubes of proraso getting punctured, or, to be honest, being at all bothered if I lost it. The Body Shop maca root stuff was about a million times better, and Proraso red is a ton better than that (IMNAAHO)

 

[Renato1]

I've used this soap several times using a boar brush.
It worked fine. I'm not sure why it gets so much criticism, though I'm into making creamy pasty lather.
I also have the shave stick version, and that works fine too.
Regards,
Renato

 

[davros]

Agree this is very much a second or third-tier soap, but I can (with effort) get usable lather from it.
I fill the puck with water for a few minutes, pour it out and work it up with a boar - takes a bit of loading, and you have to be sure to add all the thick proto-lather from the surface. Then face lather with it.
Tbh, I don't think it's really any harder to work with than MWF, but I'm not a huge fan of the latter, and really, life's too short.
I do agree with smokeydave about liking the smell though