Thread: Has anybody used Williams Mug?

Originally Posted by BigJim

I was out running errands this afternoon and spotted this next to the VDH soap in a HyVee grocery store.

I'm a doofus when it comes to lather. There's something of a mystery there that I just haven't been able to figure out. I know some guys have said they use VDH without a problem, so I'm not giving up on it. But this Williams Mug stuff was pretty cheap (cheaper than the VDH on the shelf next to it...but smaller too), so I thought I'd pick some up.

Has anybody used it? Any tips, opinions, love/hate relationships?

Thanks guys!

Yes there is a long love hate relationship with this classic product.
Some say that the old formulation was better (I cannot tell). There
are threads and threads on this soap.

Williams works...

It excels when uberlathered.
It excels in breaking in budget boar bristle brushes.
It excels in teaching "how to lather".
It excels in the cleaning and lathering of strop leather and canvas.

There are better soaps but for the price
it is hard to ignore.

Toss it in a clean empty cottage cheese tub
and use it.