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02-25-2012, 03:26 PM #1
Williams is great IF you know it's secret: use more water than you think you need, and whip the lather longer than normal. If you do, you will get great results.
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02-25-2012, 03:28 PM #2
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Thanked: 194I love how on this forum people don't get blasted for praising Williams...You wouldn't have wanted to post this on B&B lol. I have loved williams ever since I tried it for the first time. It will always have a spot in my den.
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02-27-2012, 07:20 PM #3
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Thanked: 2I have been using Williams for years, never had any problems with it.
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02-27-2012, 07:42 PM #4
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Last edited by CaliforniaCajun; 02-27-2012 at 07:52 PM.
Straight razor shaver and loving it!40-year survivor of electric and multiblade razors
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02-27-2012, 07:48 PM #5
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02-27-2012, 09:43 PM #6
The threads come and go on Williams, but Williams has been trending in positive reviews by some very opinionated people. Shave snobs may riot, but Williams is good AND cheap. Yes it's tricky to lather when you first start, but failure is in the hands of the shaver. It's a testiment to your lathering ability. For a long time the blame was placed on the product (I'm guilty as well).
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03-01-2012, 12:41 PM #7
I want to like Williams, but I don't. No matter what I do, the lather is just middling at best (unless I Superlather it). I just don't see the point when there are better soaps available for just as cheap like Arko and VDH. of coruse my water is rediclously hard, so that may be my issue with it.
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03-01-2012, 04:19 PM #8
Hardness is a major factor, as I've recently noticed. Even though Williams adds chelating agents to sequester hardness, they don't seem to work particularly well.
Getting to the point, I recently traveled to a far away land with soft water. My Williams exploded into lather with that soft water in a way that really surprised me. Since that day I have stopped using tap water, and started using purified water from my reverse osmosis unit. The difference is night and day.
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03-01-2012, 04:37 PM #9
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Thanked: 270That explains why I never had a problem with it. The water is soft where I live.
Straight razor shaver and loving it!40-year survivor of electric and multiblade razors
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03-01-2012, 04:39 PM #10
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Thanked: 4I recast a puck of Williams with a puck of VDH glycerin and get a great lather out of it quite easily