Thread: interesting but maybe not new to you all

i was looking at the ingredients of williams mug soap, and mwf, and well was very surprised, aside for the lanolin and a few extra things in the mwf, they both pretty much contain the same things. please tell me in not the first to notice this.

Originally Posted by wvloony

please tell me in not the first to notice this.

You are not the first to notice this.

Lanolin is the big difference between MWF and other soaps.

I think the amount of ingredients is also what seperates williams from other soaps like Tabac, mwf, etc...

I could be wrong though. I dont make soap, I just use it.

A few shared ingredients are where the similarities end. The performance of MWF vs Williams speaks to that...

A BMW and a Yugo are made from the same things too-steel, rubber,glass,plastic,aluminum. But they are not the same.

In another post, I reported my impression that Williams is the American MWF. They perform very similarly for me. That is clearly not the universal experience, however.

Gentlemen:

Williams is a good soap for the money. For some of us it is also a trip down memory lane, since we used a puck or two of it in the early years of wet shaving.

Yet we discovered better soaps and moved on.

I also used Mitchel's Wool Fat. Whether MWF and Williams share the same ingredients equally I don't know. How each performs is what counts. In overall quality, Williams is not in the same class as MWF. Not for me, anyway — I still use MWF whereas Williams is just a memory.

Regards,
Obie

Originally Posted by pcb01

In another post, I reported my impression that Williams is the American MWF. They perform very similarly for me. That is clearly not the universal experience, however.

Originally Posted by Obie

Whether MWF and Williams share the same ingredients equally I don't know. How each performs is what counts. In overall quality, Williams is not in the same class as MWF. Not for me, anyway — I still use MWF whereas Williams is just a memory.

No, Williams is not the American MWF. As our friend Obie pointed out, it is not in the same class. Hell, it's not even in the same solar system. In the end you get what you pay for - and for a soap that costs $1.75 I don't expect much.

Har Har Obie you got that right. Whenever I even think about using Williams (which was the first soap I ever used) I instantly develop severe skin burn and nicks just pop out on my face.

Key seems to be in the amounts of ingredients and process.