Thread: Williams ... so much for so little and All about Latherin.

Summary:
With an inexpensive puck of shave soap.
Practice making a lather, add too much soap, too much water, too little soap too little water.
Add all the soap at the beginning or dribble it it bit by bit. Touch it smell it rub it rinse it.

Soap or shave cream work it play with it so the lather is exactly what you like.
I suspect those that try adding dribbles of water to their current end of shave lather will
find that the amount of water that can be worked into the lather is underestimated and the
thickness of that wetter lather to be a better lather...
Boar or badger brush start light on the water then add dribble by dribble.
Before rinsing all the lather down the drain after shaving try to see just how much
more lather is left in the brush. Add dribble after dribble of water and work it.

I tend to shave with a 'good enough' lather but by playing with the brush and lather
after I shaved my notion of 'good enough' improves.

One more use for Williams... shave mug lift.
I have a monster coffee mug that holds a 'valuable' puck of soap and I lather in it.
I found that the mug was too deep so I popped out the single puck of $18 soap
and put a puck of Williams on the bottom then the fancy pants soap on top so the
brush handle did not bang and clang when lathering. I never run out of shave soap
even if the s'pensive stuff gets used up and so I have time to mail order a refill.

Williams Mug shaving soap goes to 11! Well, sorta, for $1.11 anyways at nearby WinCo (photo taken last week)....

Williams is my standard soap. Face lathering with a warm brush provides a nice, long lasting, slick lather. The subtle lemon verbena aroma is perfect,. My problem is the local drug and department stores have all quit carrying it. I guess I'll have to order it on-line.

The more I play with Williams the more it is obvious how good a shaving soap it is.

I have a puck of triple milled French shave soap an as always MWF that may be better but bang for the buck
Williams is a winner. The single best insight is that whiskers are the fastest way to get a new puck of shave soap started. A factory fresh puck is quite hard and takes a bit of moisture to be badger brush friendly.

Originally Posted by macdiver

Williams is my standard soap. Face lathering with a warm brush provides a nice, long lasting, slick lather. The subtle lemon verbena aroma is perfect,. My problem is the local drug and department stores have all quit carrying it. I guess I'll have to order it on-line.

That is what I had to do... and the box with a dozen pucks was less than a single puck of "better soaps".

I do think it should be included for $1.11 or so on new shave brush orders. People constantly complain that a new brush (boar or badger even synthetic) have a funk smell that vanishes with use.

I have been hoarding some brand name shave stick soaps for travel... I like them a lot but a TSA size shave anything is uncommon. A puck of Williams in a plastic zip lock is now my travel soap along with a Yellow Handled BiC tossable single blade razor. I double zip lock bag the shave soap and keep the label of the box so it is obvious what it is.