I do the same with this one , load it twice with plenty of warm water, its a great shave but just takes a little more work, the smell is very refreshing in the summer. I will add that i love shaving this way, it takes longer but the whole process is enjoyable.
Agree. Though I will usually choose other soaps, I value taking my time with the process, with whatever soap I have. I usually end up with a nicer lather... and always a more relaxing shave.
I admire your patience! No way would I spend this much time building a decent lather. You can buy a high quality soap for roughly $15 bucks that will last you 9-12 months and takes 20 seconds to lather. That’s cheap and requires much less effort.
Yeah, there are just way too many soaps that don't take nearly as long to work the lather up. But I'm always glad there are hard soaps out there. And this one, in some parts of the world, could be one of just a few options available locally for some shavers who may not want to order online. And yes, tubs like Stirling and Chiseled Face last me a year, too. I'll never made a dent in my collection!!
I find a lot of the glycerin soaps behave like this when they are new, as if they have a sort of "coating" on top that needs to wear off first. The black Wilkinson sword tub does lather a bit easier than that older sort. With those soaps I tend to have 2-21/4 tsp water to keep them on the creamier side with about a 1/4 tsp or 1- 1.5 grams soap
My last name is Wilkinson. I’ve heard the story 1 million times about how my middle name came from the man who started this company in the 1700s. I thought it would be a cool little gift for myself to get this soap, the Wilkinson razor, and a few blades. For 17 bucks, I actually quite enjoy the razor and blades, but the soap is absolutely miserable 😂. My grandfather is rolling in his coffin. I feel it most when I pick up some artisan blend shave soap, but it’s just so much better.
I use this soap most of the time. I usually leave some hot water on it then shower and by the time I’m ready to shave it’s fine. It’s cheap, but it smells alright and it works well enough and you get a decent lather with a good badger brush. There are better shaving soaps alright but this stuff has been around for decades and it works. And it’s cheap. And it lasts for a long long time. You either get along with it or you don’t I guess.
I had to come back and comment and respond to the lather having bubbles in it as u say micro bubbles as it was too thin. Wat I usually do is go straight to the puck and whip up more soap then add it to the lather that’s thin. Usually thickens up real quick. Creamy and thick is how I like my lather and looking at your lather being whipped up I see no problems taking it to the face. I’d shave with it definitely. Looks good in my opinion
I have the same brush with about 40 shaves on it. You are going to love that brush. It definitely is top tier. It took about 10-15 shaves to really start appreciating it. I have smaller hands than you do and it fits nicely. Enjoy that one!
The soap is so cheap, even here in Germany and for some reason I like the basic smell very much. I have much more expensive soaps but I keep returning to Wilkinson.
I just picked up a new wilkenson sword soap the black one and a new brush from wilkos £2 for the soap and like £3 for the brush not bad price nice smell
Just tried it, and I got pretty much the same lather. The synth may have generated it more quickly, though. I still had to load for 1.5 mins like I did with the boar. That vid will come out in a couple of days.
@@sgrdddyshaves ps I have a zeinth boar on the way. I have seen your zenith during the month when you was using chiseled face midnight stag. It seems to be one of the top performers of your boars, I had to get one for myself. I have the omega pro 48, I think that's the name. It's the bigger of the two. I'm not extremely satisfied with it. At first it was too floppy but had soft split ends, so I had a custom handle made for it and lowered loft but now the scrub is too much and the middle of hairs are rough when splayed.
Yes, the 2 Zeniths I have sure have impressed me. I also didn't like my Omega pro 48. The tips were okay, and interesting feeling, because of so much bristle flex, but the loft was just too long. Well, it was good of you to try to lower the loft. It is an interesting knot. Too bad it didn't work out. I hear that the long loft is because some Italian barbers like to hold on to the bristles by hand instead of just the handle.
@@sgrdddyshaves very interesting. I may have seen a video or two of them holding the knot by the bristles. I could see to fan it out for getting the mustache but not the whole lather like I seen them do. I'm sure they had a reason for it.
I use i every day, you need to soak it hard and you can apply it directly onto your face. Not the best quality, but it is available everywhere in Europe.
Nice vid man! Wilkinson definitely takes a little work but once u achieve it not bad at all. If I can lather Mug soap and we know how hard that is this definitely is a lot easier lol 😂. Once again great vid man 👍👍🪒🪒 shave on !!!
Yeah, it's really not a bad soap. Thanks! Bowl: Roger Quintero 3D Printed Bowl I use the XL version of this bowl. www.thingiverse.com/thing:3392930 If you have a 3D printer, the files above should be all you need to print it up yourself. If you don't, 3 of my viewers have reported working with these 3 vendors to have it printed at a reasonable cost... www.sugardaddyshaves.com/sds/3dPrinting.cfm
Thanks for the suggestion. I have tried that brand. Their stuff does the job pretty well, but I find that there are quite a few better options out there, especially from the US artisans like Stirling, Mammoth, Summer Break, Declaration Grooming, Spearhead, Zingari Man, Noble Otter, Barrister and Mann, Mystic Water, Chiseled Face, and Catie's Bubbles. European makers also have some very good options at similar or better price points. While TOBS creams (still under-performers in my book) are still made in house, TOBS has out-sourced the making of their hard soaps and don't quite have the quality they used to many years ago. Two other UK big brands have done the same unfortunately: Truefitt and Hill, and GF Trumpers. D.R. Harris, I think, is one of the few still making their own hard soap, and it does perform very well. However, I'll give you this, I might rather use TOBS than this Wilkinson Soap! LOL It took forever to whip up a good lather!
Do you then move to your face after that and gradually add water to mix up the lather? If so, then you are a face latherer and that's exactly what you folks do. And that's kind of on the opposite end of the spectrum from us bowl latherers. I don't choose that path because you use up a lot more soap... generally. Also, I like really wet lathers and, as you add water to your face, the best lather starts to fly off when it gets really wet. I find that too frustrating.
@@sgrdddyshaves Well no.. I just add a little water to the brush and mix in the soap pot. I add little by little water till I see thick foam. I don't lather on my face. I'm still using the same pot for a couple of months now. It's not Wilkinson soap but a Dutch brand : Kruidvat" It's a hard soap so not much comes off. I understand when you use shaving cream or soft soap like Proraso you have to mix it in a shaving bowl. I do exactly like this guy does ua-cam.com/video/umNr5COE0sM/v-deo.html He just makes the lather in the bowl with the hard soap and puts it on his face. You explain in your video to take soap with the brush and mix it in a seperate bowl. It depends on the soap I guess?
@@MariusMerchiers ah okay. I need a lot more lather (need 3-4 passes for me) than these tubs could hold, since mine is very wet. I love how our little hobby is fine with all manner of techniques!
Roger Quintero 3D Printed Bowl... design files available here... www.thingiverse.com/thing:3392930 I use the XL version of this bowl. You can find an online service to print it for you if you don't have a 3D printer. I documented some that were reported favorably by some viewers here: www.sugardaddyshaves.com/sds/3dPrinting.cfm
If it takes u 25 minutes or anyone over 5 minutes to build a lather u need to learn to build a lather. People who time loads have issues with diffremces soaps. I learned by just loading till I thought I was good. Eventually u just learn what's right and ur good. I can pick up any soap and use it first try.. But.. Perfecting that lather is diffrent lol not learning by just doing it holds u back cuz ur always leaning on a set time and redoing and adding and subtracting time. I just... Load.. Until I think it's good. U get a feel after a while. Tbh I learned the hardest way possible lol I used diffrent soaps and diffrent types and sizes of brushes to learn on. Some how I learned what's best and I can do any soap. It wasn't easy but I did it. I encourage people to just buy a chea soap and a nice brush and just waste an hour a couple times a week and just learn... Eventually u can figure it out. I basically had to teach myself.. I was also brand new to wetshaving.
1. careful not to judge too quickly. I have almost a thousand shave vids online and you happen to have found one of the few where it took quite a bit to work out. 2. careful not to push your own shave ideas onto others. There are some who take 10 mins, purposefully, to make their lathers. Maybe it's a therapeutic, meditative time, maybe they just like the results. You may enjoy playing it loose and free and always going by the feel. There's nothing wrong with that. But it often is a slower learning process when there is a lot of variation in play. There is also room in shaving for folks who have analytical personalities and like to fuss over details and processes. And they're not wrong for doing so.
@@sgrdddyshaves 1 carefull not to assume i was meaning u. I was meaning in general for someone who it takes 25 minutes or over 5 to build a lather. It was to be taken slightly light but some seriousness. 2 be carefull taking things out context. Not everything is meant to be meant 1 way. It can be meant to be meant other ways. Intentionally taking 10 minutes means nothing to your ability. Taking 10 minutes because u dont know what u are doing and ur messing it up ( not just going slowly to add water) can mean ur ability isnt all that well. There is nor perfect way to build a lather. Timing has its drawbacks and " winging it" has its drawbacks. The way i learned is the mosr complicated but i can go to any soap and get avg results. Timing could inhibit certain results more. At the end of the day there are so many variables that just sticking to one soap one brush x amount of flicks of water out and x amount of water added to soap is the best u can do until u just figure it out. Trial and error is king woth lather lol
C'mon!! Worst soap I've ever tried, and I like the fragance in it for the summer, but really, 15 or more minutes working on the lather, it's not frickin worth it, whatever the price, whatever the fragance, whatever the post, it's just not worth my time. LEA has the same clean and fresh feeling, without the lame leathering of this piece of sheet.
Well, I disagree on two points here. 1. that brush costs twice as much as many synthetics, so if "you get what you pay for" is true in this case, then the synth will be half as good as this one! ;-) 2. I don't think a synth will get better results, but it might get quicker results, and then it won't feel as good on my face during the shave (which is a trade-off I don't think is worth it).
@@sgrdddyshaves My apologies, I've used the wrong phrase... What I meant is you get what y buy. Yr SOC Taj tool is a good one with a pretty handle, but at 1st use not at its real potential. My SOC Taj mixed boar/badger with now more than 20 uses still is not fully 'there'. My personal preference is with natural brushes, boar/badger, not to forget horse, especially as I've spent quite some money on my collection. But in all honesty, I admit that synthetic brushes do squeeze slightly btr results out of mny soaps. I've experienced this especially with lower end, or very standard ones. With a Williams I use synthetyic only, my natural ones fail throughout. But it might be influenced by the water we use in Singapore, spring water fm Malaysia highlands for drinking, cooking, but seawater desalinated for shower, toilet, carwash etc. Cheers+
It was the 1st (only) soap available at local stores and I am glad I have access to better soaps, it's pretty tough to get a good lather. ~cheers 💈
I do the same with this one , load it twice with plenty of warm water, its a great shave but just takes a little more work, the smell is very refreshing in the summer. I will add that i love shaving this way, it takes longer but the whole process is enjoyable.
Agree. Though I will usually choose other soaps, I value taking my time with the process, with whatever soap I have. I usually end up with a nicer lather... and always a more relaxing shave.
Man, it takes too long.
Wow bro. I ordered this Wilkinson sword soap two days ago. Now after watching your video I can’t wait to get it. Beautiful lather
It's a little more work than some soaps, but it's cheap, and definitely performs!
Thanks
I admire your patience! No way would I spend this much time building a decent lather. You can buy a high quality soap for roughly $15 bucks that will last you 9-12 months and takes 20 seconds to lather. That’s cheap and requires much less effort.
Yeah, there are just way too many soaps that don't take nearly as long to work the lather up.
But I'm always glad there are hard soaps out there.
And this one, in some parts of the world, could be one of just a few options available locally for some shavers who may not want to order online.
And yes, tubs like Stirling and Chiseled Face last me a year, too. I'll never made a dent in my collection!!
I find it's hard to make a lather with the Wilkinson Sword soap, but I love the smell of the soap. I bought two tubs on sale to try it out.
That's true. It does have a nice fresh classic shaving scent
I find a lot of the glycerin soaps behave like this when they are new, as if they have a sort of "coating" on top that needs to wear off first. The black Wilkinson sword tub does lather a bit easier than that older sort. With those soaps I tend to have 2-21/4 tsp water to keep them on the creamier side with about a 1/4 tsp or 1- 1.5 grams soap
Thx
Nothing beats wet shaving.
I love shaving with a soap brush and traditional silver razor.
My last name is Wilkinson. I’ve heard the story 1 million times about how my middle name came from the man who started this company in the 1700s. I thought it would be a cool little gift for myself to get this soap, the Wilkinson razor, and a few blades. For 17 bucks, I actually quite enjoy the razor and blades, but the soap is absolutely miserable 😂. My grandfather is rolling in his coffin. I feel it most when I pick up some artisan blend shave soap, but it’s just so much better.
I use this soap most of the time. I usually leave some hot water on it then shower and by the time I’m ready to shave it’s fine. It’s cheap, but it smells alright and it works well enough and you get a decent lather with a good badger brush. There are better shaving soaps alright but this stuff has been around for decades and it works. And it’s cheap. And it lasts for a long long time. You either get along with it or you don’t I guess.
Well said.
100% Kenneth
Back to poraso. Was less load time and foamed super easy. Thanks very helpful and informative video.
Glad it helped!
I had to come back and comment and respond to the lather having bubbles in it as u say micro bubbles as it was too thin. Wat I usually do is go straight to the puck and whip up more soap then add it to the lather that’s thin. Usually thickens up real quick. Creamy and thick is how I like my lather and looking at your lather being whipped up I see no problems taking it to the face. I’d shave with it definitely. Looks good in my opinion
Thanks!
i knock it out of its container and pop it in to a shaving mug and lather it up like that - always turns out decent enough
I have the same brush with about 40 shaves on it. You are going to love that brush. It definitely is top tier. It took about 10-15 shaves to really start appreciating it. I have smaller hands than you do and it fits nicely. Enjoy that one!
Thanks George!
The soap is so cheap, even here in Germany and for some reason I like the basic smell very much. I have much more expensive soaps but I keep returning to Wilkinson.
I like the scent too. A classic one.
I just picked up a new wilkenson sword soap the black one and a new brush from wilkos £2 for the soap and like £3 for the brush not bad price nice smell
It's really a good soap. For me it just took some work to get that great lather. Similar to Williams Mug Soap in the States.
I would like to see you do the same test but with a synthetic brush. I really suspect you will have different results! Please try this. Thanks!!!
Just tried it, and I got pretty much the same lather. The synth may have generated it more quickly, though. I still had to load for 1.5 mins like I did with the boar.
That vid will come out in a couple of days.
@@sgrdddyshaves thanks, I appreciate you trying. I will definitely watch out for the video. Good day Sir'
@@sgrdddyshaves ps I have a zeinth boar on the way. I have seen your zenith during the month when you was using chiseled face midnight stag. It seems to be one of the top performers of your boars, I had to get one for myself. I have the omega pro 48, I think that's the name. It's the bigger of the two. I'm not extremely satisfied with it. At first it was too floppy but had soft split ends, so I had a custom handle made for it and lowered loft but now the scrub is too much and the middle of hairs are rough when splayed.
Yes, the 2 Zeniths I have sure have impressed me.
I also didn't like my Omega pro 48. The tips were okay, and interesting feeling, because of so much bristle flex, but the loft was just too long.
Well, it was good of you to try to lower the loft. It is an interesting knot. Too bad it didn't work out.
I hear that the long loft is because some Italian barbers like to hold on to the bristles by hand instead of just the handle.
@@sgrdddyshaves very interesting. I may have seen a video or two of them holding the knot by the bristles. I could see to fan it out for getting the mustache but not the whole lather like I seen them do. I'm sure they had a reason for it.
this is one of my favorites, its only €1.99 where I live.
I can see why! I really enjoyed my recent lather. Very slick, and a classic scent. And very cheap, too!
I tried the Wilkinson sword soap first time today think I need more practice with it but overall its OK for a cheap shaving soap
Sounds about right. Once you get used to using it, I think enjoyable lathers will come without much drama.
I use i every day, you need to soak it hard and you can apply it directly onto your face. Not the best quality, but it is available everywhere in Europe.
Thanks!
Nice vid man! Wilkinson definitely takes a little work but once u achieve it not bad at all. If I can lather Mug soap and we know how hard that is this definitely is a lot easier lol 😂. Once again great vid man 👍👍🪒🪒 shave on !!!
Also I bloom that whole soap in the sink and it’s a lot easier kinda works out faster especially braking in a new soap like this.
Also awesome lather bowl man ! Where can I find that?
Yeah, it's really not a bad soap. Thanks!
Bowl: Roger Quintero 3D Printed Bowl
I use the XL version of this bowl.
www.thingiverse.com/thing:3392930
If you have a 3D printer, the files above should be all you need to print it up yourself. If you don't, 3 of my viewers have reported working with these 3 vendors to have it printed at a reasonable cost...
www.sugardaddyshaves.com/sds/3dPrinting.cfm
Awesome thanks for the info 🪒🪒👍👍
You seem to like olive green
yeah, it's a nice comfy color
Recently I bought a shaving bowl/cream that's called: Taylor of old Bond Street. I really liked it. Maybe you should try it? Its 15 dollars
Thanks for the suggestion. I have tried that brand.
Their stuff does the job pretty well, but I find that there are quite a few better options out there, especially from the US artisans like Stirling, Mammoth, Summer Break, Declaration Grooming, Spearhead, Zingari Man, Noble Otter, Barrister and Mann, Mystic Water, Chiseled Face, and Catie's Bubbles.
European makers also have some very good options at similar or better price points.
While TOBS creams (still under-performers in my book) are still made in house, TOBS has out-sourced the making of their hard soaps and don't quite have the quality they used to many years ago. Two other UK big brands have done the same unfortunately: Truefitt and Hill, and GF Trumpers. D.R. Harris, I think, is one of the few still making their own hard soap, and it does perform very well.
However, I'll give you this, I might rather use TOBS than this Wilkinson Soap! LOL It took forever to whip up a good lather!
I just make the lather in the in same pot the soap is in
Do you then move to your face after that and gradually add water to mix up the lather? If so, then you are a face latherer and that's exactly what you folks do. And that's kind of on the opposite end of the spectrum from us bowl latherers.
I don't choose that path because you use up a lot more soap... generally.
Also, I like really wet lathers and, as you add water to your face, the best lather starts to fly off when it gets really wet. I find that too frustrating.
@@sgrdddyshaves Well no..
I just add a little water to the brush and mix in the soap pot. I add little by little water till I see thick foam. I don't lather on my face. I'm still using the same pot for a couple of months now. It's not Wilkinson soap but a Dutch brand : Kruidvat" It's a hard soap so not much comes off. I understand when you use shaving cream or soft soap like Proraso you have to mix it in a shaving bowl.
I do exactly like this guy does ua-cam.com/video/umNr5COE0sM/v-deo.html
He just makes the lather in the bowl with the hard soap and puts it on his face. You explain in your video to take soap with the brush and mix it in a seperate bowl. It depends on the soap I guess?
@@MariusMerchiers ah okay. I need a lot more lather (need 3-4 passes for me) than these tubs could hold, since mine is very wet.
I love how our little hobby is fine with all manner of techniques!
Where did you got that lathering mug?
Roger Quintero 3D Printed Bowl... design files available here...
www.thingiverse.com/thing:3392930
I use the XL version of this bowl.
You can find an online service to print it for you if you don't have a 3D printer. I documented some that were reported favorably by some viewers here:
www.sugardaddyshaves.com/sds/3dPrinting.cfm
Should have used a used boar to test this soap
The Semogue owners club IS a boar brush
Nice guy. Nice video. Lousy shaving soap. Used it years ago. Pure garbage IMO. Cheers.
Lol. It sure does require work.
If it takes u 25 minutes or anyone over 5 minutes to build a lather u need to learn to build a lather. People who time loads have issues with diffremces soaps. I learned by just loading till I thought I was good. Eventually u just learn what's right and ur good. I can pick up any soap and use it first try.. But.. Perfecting that lather is diffrent lol not learning by just doing it holds u back cuz ur always leaning on a set time and redoing and adding and subtracting time. I just... Load.. Until I think it's good. U get a feel after a while. Tbh I learned the hardest way possible lol
I used diffrent soaps and diffrent types and sizes of brushes to learn on. Some how I learned what's best and I can do any soap. It wasn't easy but I did it. I encourage people to just buy a chea soap and a nice brush and just waste an hour a couple times a week and just learn... Eventually u can figure it out. I basically had to teach myself.. I was also brand new to wetshaving.
1. careful not to judge too quickly. I have almost a thousand shave vids online and you happen to have found one of the few where it took quite a bit to work out.
2. careful not to push your own shave ideas onto others. There are some who take 10 mins, purposefully, to make their lathers. Maybe it's a therapeutic, meditative time, maybe they just like the results. You may enjoy playing it loose and free and always going by the feel. There's nothing wrong with that. But it often is a slower learning process when there is a lot of variation in play. There is also room in shaving for folks who have analytical personalities and like to fuss over details and processes. And they're not wrong for doing so.
@@sgrdddyshaves 1 carefull not to assume i was meaning u. I was meaning in general for someone who it takes 25 minutes or over 5 to build a lather. It was to be taken slightly light but some seriousness.
2 be carefull taking things out context. Not everything is meant to be meant 1 way. It can be meant to be meant other ways. Intentionally taking 10 minutes means nothing to your ability. Taking 10 minutes because u dont know what u are doing and ur messing it up ( not just going slowly to add water) can mean ur ability isnt all that well. There is nor perfect way to build a lather. Timing has its drawbacks and " winging it" has its drawbacks. The way i learned is the mosr complicated but i can go to any soap and get avg results. Timing could inhibit certain results more. At the end of the day there are so many variables that just sticking to one soap one brush x amount of flicks of water out and x amount of water added to soap is the best u can do until u just figure it out. Trial and error is king woth lather lol
Silikonhaltige Seife ober Creme nie mit einem Naturhaar verarbeiten.
C'mon!! Worst soap I've ever tried, and I like the fragance in it for the summer, but really, 15 or more minutes working on the lather, it's not frickin worth it, whatever the price, whatever the fragance, whatever the post, it's just not worth my time. LEA has the same clean and fresh feeling, without the lame leathering of this piece of sheet.
I generally agree that it's not worth the time it takes to make this soap behave, especially considering all the other options that we have.
With a synthetic brush y get btr results, but y get, what y pay for.
Well, I disagree on two points here.
1. that brush costs twice as much as many synthetics, so if "you get what you pay for" is true in this case, then the synth will be half as good as this one! ;-)
2. I don't think a synth will get better results, but it might get quicker results, and then it won't feel as good on my face during the shave (which is a trade-off I don't think is worth it).
@@sgrdddyshaves My apologies, I've used the wrong phrase... What I meant is you get what y buy. Yr SOC Taj tool is a good one with a pretty handle, but at 1st use not at its real potential. My SOC Taj mixed boar/badger with now more than 20 uses still is not fully 'there'. My personal preference is with natural brushes, boar/badger, not to forget horse, especially as I've spent quite some money on my collection. But in all honesty, I admit that synthetic brushes do squeeze slightly btr results out of mny soaps. I've experienced this especially with lower end, or very standard ones. With a Williams I use synthetyic only, my natural ones fail throughout. But it might be influenced by the water we use in Singapore, spring water fm Malaysia highlands for drinking, cooking, but seawater desalinated for shower, toilet, carwash etc. Cheers+
Been using this for 20 years. You need more water to keep her going.And not a syntechic brush. Use a real brush.
Thanks, but that IS a real brush. It's boar. I also don't like most synthetics.
@@sgrdddyshaves Use badger or badger silver tip instead.Boar is rubbish with hard soap shaving