Your vote for the worst soap ever tried

[GencoOliveOilCompany]

I'm still a rookie at this...but I know I did not shave with Colgate toothpaste. I bought it from eBarbershop.com--it was described as a 'collector's item' and a great product. I spent >$5 for the soap puck because I used Colgate canned shaving cream in college ($1/can). Wow, was I wrong on that purchase. Tried it >10x with no success--it was demoted to shower duty thereafter.

[breadstick]

These threads crop up from time to time. Williams comes up a lot, but a lot of guys swear by it. Arko gets mentioned (primarily because of the scent, the lather is foolproof). I've yet to see anyone defend Caswell-Massey. It simply DOES NOT make usable lather. Period.

I'm glad I'm not the only one. I was afraid it was me. This is about the only soap I've tried that I could not get a usable lather no matter what I tried.

[Predict]

Williams mug soap.

[Sir_Eider]

I haven't used really bad soaps, but I can list the ones I liked least:

- Institut Karité: thin, difficult to make lather... with no scent.
- DR Harris Marbororugh: the same than IK but with decent scent... and easily drieness foam (anyway I have heard that has been reformulated)
- Ogallala Bay Rum Limes&Peppercorn stick: expensive to buy in Europe, lovely scent but... any cheap stick soap like Palmolive&Wilkinson&La Toja does better lather by far.
- An artisan spanish soap called "Tati": like many olive oil based soaps, no lather, no way...

Cheers!

-

[RABIDMONKEY]

Williams

[gash]

Ogallala and Lothantique. I wouldn't even wash my car with them.

[Kostas1]

These threads crop up from time to time. Williams comes up a lot, but a lot of guys swear by it. Arko gets mentioned (primarily because of the scent, the lather is foolproof). I've yet to see anyone defend Caswell-Massey. It simply DOES NOT make usable lather. Period.

Funny, never had any luck with Williams before, using my EJ BBB and 22mm TGN 2-band re-knotted Ever-Ready 100. Got my new Semogue 830 yesterday, and I used Williams for test lather #2 (just to break-in the brush a bit). I got ridiculous amounts of slick, creamy lather. Just like some blades work with some razors, and some don't. I guess the same thing goes for brushes and soaps.

[finotti]

AOS Sandalwood soap. Can't get a good lather most of the time, and the 1 time I did it provided virtually no protection. I know some swear by it, but I can get great lather from Arko, Col. Conk and Cella just by looking at them in the bowl, but not the AOS. I was real disappointed, because I had read so much good about it. Guess the high end stuff just isn't for me...

You can get rid of it by sending it to me...

[petr]

Ogallala and Lothantique. I wouldn't even wash my car with them.

+1000

[Sapian]

Wilkinson Sword in the blue bowl. Everything about it angered me.

[brothers]

Durance L'ome. Luckily, no longer made.

[Mad Man]

Given to me in a gift basket with other Burt's Bees men's gear...you guessed it.

Burt's Bees Bay Rum shave soap. The AS & balm were astonishingly good.

The soap....? Relegated to shower duty. Thin, insipid and got me cut-up. The angry, skinny ex-wife of soaps.

[modmlot]

The worst is gotta be "Dirty" Shaving Cream by LUSH. It is so bad I felt bad throwing it in the garbage.....


CHEERS!


--T

[Hyrum]

Burts Bees Bay Rum shaving soap was pretty bad, as I recall from some years back.

[Optometrist]

Ogallala soaps....abysmal lather and scents(YMMV) to match

[Moondancer]

Mitchell's Wool Fat.
I have not managed to get any kind of consistency out of this. Once in a great while, it's great. Most times it's too wet or too dry. Not slick even in the best of times. I actually prefer Col. Conk Bay Rum soap to MWF. And neither are as good as my Tabac or C.O. Bigelow creams.

[Haggises]

I'll give a nod to Wilkinsons blue bowl.
I think it scarred my lathering technique.
The only thing I use it for now is to clean a brush - either of old soap deposits or new-animal-fur-stink.

[Deacon Frank]

Handmade Soap Company Shave Soap for Him

Smells good and it's very moisturizing. But it's pretty worthless as an actual shave soap.

[Dave258]

Col. Conk Lime, something in it almost ate my face off.

Same with me!

[Earfluff]

Wilkinson Sword in the blue bowl. Everything about it angered me.

The most awful soap I have had the misfortune to use. I cannot remember what made me buy it.