To all you Williams haters......

[AJMiami]

Williams is not bad...and once you lather the smell is actually nice (totally transformed).

It is finicky to lather, but once you get the proper technique it is a decent soap.

 

[Seraphim]

Mmmmmmmm MMM!


Tastes great, and less filling!

 

[HoosierTrooper]

I get great shaves from Williams, and find the scent quite pleasing. I was looking at the ingredients on the Palmolive shave stick I've been raving about and found one of the ingredients is citronellol. Copied this from Wikipedia, the highlight was done by me. Wonder if this is in Williams?

Citronellol, or dihydrogeraniol, is a natural acyclic monoterpenoid. Both enantiomers occur in nature. (+)-Citronellol, which is found citronella oils, including Cymbopogon nardus (50%), is the more common isomer. (&#8722-Citronellol is found in the oils of rose (18-55%) and Pelargonium geraniums.[1]

Citronellol is used in perfumes and insect repellents,[2] and as a mite attractant.[3]. It is also a raw material for the production of rose oxide.

The United States FDA considers citronellol as GRAS (Generally Recognized as Safe for food use).[3] Citronellol should be avoided by people with perfume allergy

 

[Royall Lyme]

Sodium Tallowate, Potassium Stearate, Sodium Cocoate, Water, Glycerin, Tetrasodium Etidronate, Pentasodium Pentetate, Fragrance (Parfum), Titanium Dioxide

No Citronellol is listed. Perhaps it is there but as an indredient part to the "Fragrance (Parfum)"???

 

[michiganlover]

I have decided that life is too short to use (current) Williams when I could be using soaps that smell better and work better, faster.

+1

My shave cave is well stocked with boatloads of products that work far better than Williams. Life is too short to suffer with a product you don't 100% adore.

 

[Seraphim]

+1

My shave cave is well stocked with boatloads of products that work far better than Williams. Life is too short to suffer with a product you don't 100% adore.

Too short to shave with products you 100% abhor as well!

 

[W_B_K]

Sodium Tallowate, Potassium Stearate, Sodium Cocoate, Water, Glycerin, Tetrasodium Etidronate, Pentasodium Pentetate, Fragrance (Parfum), Titanium Dioxide

No Citronellol is listed. Perhaps it is there but as an indredient part to the "Fragrance (Parfum)"???

Is that ingredient list in order? If so, looks like you have vintage Williams. Current production the tallow is second.

 

[Topgumby]

Current Williams. Often compared to the frankly better formulations of Williams past. It remains a wet shaving staple, often the first soap that a newly awakened soul encounters when he struggles out of the pit of canned concoctions and multibladed madness.

It isn't the easiest soap to lather. The scent is not met with universal acclaim. It's most oft sited virtue is economy.

Yet, that doesn't explain the venom that exudes when a post praising the lowly Williams appears. There are other soaps that aren't legitimate contenders for the crown of most luxurious, easiest to lather, most effective at providing cushion and glide.

Are these soaps compared to urinal cookies? Do they suffer the slings and arrows of cruel jests and open hostility that Williams does? No.

What is it then, about Williams?

I submit, my fellow tonsorial gourmands, that where there is the brightest light there is also the darkest shadow. While humble Williams provides some with the bright light of good shaves, others are cast into the darkness of weak lather that no amount of honest effort can overcome. In this darkness is born a green monster, and this monster cannot abide the light that created the black shadow of it's birth.

Is this monster an unmitigated evil, and the light of the lucky who have Williams success a pure good? No, for those in darkness gain from the bitter ashes of Williams disappointments the strength to find and appreciate other soaps, and those who are too smug in the arms of a lasting Williams lather will never know the strength that adversity with a brush can bring.

In short, YMMV.

What then, should the unsullied and untried new shaver, who comes to hear the clarion call of truth, and instead finds a cacophony of passionate praise and savage rage directed at this simple soap do?

Try it. Find out for yourself. And if at first you don't find the bliss you were seeking, remember this:

 

[DFrancis]

Current Williams. Often compared to the frankly better formulations of Williams past. It remains a wet shaving staple, often the first soap that a newly awakened soul encounters when he struggles out of the pit of canned concoctions and multibladed madness.

It isn't the easiest soap to lather. The scent is not met with universal acclaim. It's most oft sited virtue is economy.

Yet, that doesn't explain the venom that exudes when a post praising the lowly Williams appears. There are other soaps that aren't legitimate contenders for the crown of most luxurious, easiest to lather, most effective at providing cushion and glide.

Are these soaps compared to urinal cookies? Do they suffer the slings and arrows of cruel jests and open hostility that Williams does? No.

What is it then, about Williams?

I submit, my fellow tonsorial gourmands, that where there is the brightest light there is also the darkest shadow. While humble Williams provides some with the bright light of good shaves, others are cast into the darkness of weak lather that no amount of honest effort can overcome. In this darkness is born a green monster, and this monster cannot abide the light that created the black shadow of it's birth.

Is this monster an unmitigated evil, and the light of the lucky who have Williams success a pure good? No, for those in darkness gain from the bitter ashes of Williams disappointments the strength to find and appreciate other soaps, and those who are too smug in the arms of a lasting Williams lather will never know the strength that adversity with a brush can bring.

In short, YMMV.

What then, should the unsullied and untried new shaver, who comes to hear the clarion call of truth, and instead finds a cacophony of passionate praise and savage rage directed at this simple soap do?

Try it. Find out for yourself. And if at first you don't find the bliss you were seeking, remember this:

Thank you sir, I would give you an ovation if I were not wiping away a tear.

 

[synapticmisfires]

The smell is my biggest problem with Williams too, but it fades as the puck ages. When I first bought it, I took a whiff of the dry puck and thought I made a huge mistake. After a month or so (and a couple of uses) it started to smell kind of nice. Less like citronella and more of a more toned down lemon and wood scent.

So if scent is the only reason holding you back, maybe give it a shot anyway, it could surprise you.

Incidentally, I just used my puck yesterday. Huge, satisfying, billowy lather and smooth razor glide, even against-the-grain.

 

[ramon]

all williams hated united

 

[Topgumby]

all williams hated united

awhu?

 

[goby]

awhu?

No..... AWHU!!!

 

[Greybeard]

All Williams Foes United in Loathing. Or AWFUL in short form.

 

[bradyarz]

All Williams Foes United in Loathing. Or AWFUL in short form.

i was trying to come up with something similar, but i like yours better.