Williams Lathering Video

[etoyoc]

Its not the greatest.. but here it is... just because it can be.

[rocketman]

Excellent vid dood!! You have a great, soothing voice for this type of thing. Good banter too!

I picked up a couple of things from this as well that I would like to share:

The idea of using a higher mug to maintain and utilize the 'pre-lather'. Well I'll be darned! Great concept, obvious and easy! I just hadn't really thought a lot about that. I like the term pre-lather, I sure enough know what it is. And, I have had it spilling around in low bowls and just not paying attention. Food for thought - thnx!

Also, I don't know whether you do that all the time or whether it was just because you were making the vid - but when you completed making lather and squashed out the soap in the brush using your thumb and forefinger you ended up with the soap on a 'palette' - the top your left hand. A great spot to end up with the squashed out soap!! I like it a lot!! I'm not sure I have been paying attention how I do that - and I know I have done it likely more with my forefinger and middle finger. But, I will always do this thumb jobby and end up with the soap resting on my left hand all ready to be applied to the brush. Doh!! Why didn't I pick up on that before either?

Thnx for the Vid!!! Nice to see the Williams in action. (And yer sink!)

[mbwhoosh]

Wonderful video thank you! ;D

I concur that you have a very nice audible voice that comes across very smooth and steady.

I don't like lathering in mugs because I use a cheap tweezerman which has a short handle and I can't get a good grip in mugs. I do however agree that the "pre-lather" is needed in order to get a lather formed fast when using soaps. I use Mantic's tip about holding the bowl/mug upside while lathering this allows the "pre-lather" to fall into the bristles and the base of the knot.

I always forget about the lather in the base of the brush until I am cleaning it I really like the idea of squeezing it out and using it creamy goodness on the last pass. Your video though has given me the idea to do it while mixing the lather so that you get a better over all mix. Will have to give it a try

Again thanks for the video

[wchnu]

VIVA LA WILLIAMS brother..


Thanks a million for that great video.. wonderful to see it all come together like that.

Fuzzy

[tommyers]

Please don't take this as being critical of your method. Certainly everyone has their favorite way of building a lather and whatever works well is a "good" method. Perhaps it is because of your harder water, but it seems to me that, in your video, building the lather took a rather inordinate amount of time.

I use Williams among other soaps and creams, and yes, the Williams does take a little more work than some of the other soaps, but I simply start with a fairly dry brush which picks up the soap better, and then after swirling it over the water softened puck 8 or 10 times, I start building the lather on my face. I add a little water at a time by dipping the brush tips in the bowl of hot water until the lather is the right consistency. The whole process, from the time I put the brush to the soap until I'm ready to shave only takes about a minute and a half at the most.

I keep all my soaps in relatively shallow Old Spice mugs, all of which are different from one another and make a nice display on open shelves in the bathroom. These shallow mugs work fine when you are face lathering.

My feeling is that perhaps you are starting out with a brush that is too wet and consequently won't pick up the soap very well.

By the way, I use a badger brush, but years ago I used a boar brush and I can't say that the process has changed much. Obviously everyone has their own favorite method, but I feel that face lathering is the more expedient method since the time you are building the lather is spent also working that lather into your face and whiskers.

Regards,
Tom

[etoyoc]

no offense taken at all.. This is just what works for me and I don't expect it to work for everyone. If could get a soap to work with just 8-10 swirls, I would be ecstatic.

BTW: I encourage anyone to tell me what they really think. Isn't a forum about an exchange of ideas? Tell me or better yet show me what works for you and I can learn and pick and chose what I want to take from it. I think it interesting that some of the comments about the video are things that I normally wouldn't have written about if I was just explaining what I do,

The video was mostly made in a response to all of those shavers who keep complaining that Williams is terrible stuff and it can't be lathered. Normally, I lather it faster and normally, I don't do the hand lathering thing. But whenever I try out a new soap or break in a brush, this is what I do. The thing with the lather on the palette, I am sure I saw that someplace on another video. I never thought about it much. But when I watched the video, I am using that soap that I put on my hand like that. Can't say that I was aware of doing that.