2- basic groups of car wax
Let me see if I can remove just a little bit of the confusion… There are two basic groups most car waxes and paint sealants fall into, these would be,
• Cleaner/waxes or Cleaner/Sealants
• Finishing waxes or Finishing Sealants
A cleaner/wax or cleaning/sealant would offer some level of cleaning ability using either chemical cleaning agents, solvents and/or some type of abrasives and often times a combination of all three. Cleaner/Waxes are also referred to as One-Step products or All-In-One products. Cleaner/waxes can be used to restore neglected paint to good to excellent condition depending upon how bad of condition the paint is in and the cleaning ability or strength of the cleaning agents in the cleaner/wax.
A finishing wax or finishing sealant would not contain any ingredients with the intended ability to clean or abrade the paint. Products in this category should only be used on paint in excellent or brand new condition or neglected paints that have been previously cleaned and polished and thus restored to new or excellent condition.
Besides dividing products into two groups by whether they have the ability to clean the paint or not, paint protection products are also divided into two other groups or categories and that's
car waxes or
paint sealants.
Car Wax
Contains some kind of naturally occurring waxy type substance, for example Carnauba wax.
Paint Sealant
Made from synthetic or all man-made ingredients.
So from the above, we can have,
[INDENT]
Cleaner/Waxes
A product that cleans, polishes and protects and contains natural protection ingredients like Carnauba
Cleaner/Sealants
A product that cleans, polishes and protects and uses all synthetic protection ingredients
Finishing Waxes
A product that offers no cleaning ability with the focus on maximizing beauty with the protection based upon naturally occurring ingredients.
Finishing Sealants
A product that offers no cleaning ability with the focus on maximizing beauty with the protection based upon synthetic ingredients.
Hybrids
There's one more group into which waxes and sealant fall into and that would be the
hybrid category. Hybrids contain a combination of both natural and synthetic ingredients.
If we use the loose definition above for car waxes and paint sealants, (For the wax group the primary protection ingredients are
naturally occurring waxy substances and for the sealant group the primary protection ingredients are
man-made or synthetic substances), then since
hybrid products use a combination of both it would seem natural to group them and place them into their own category with both words,
wax and
sealant used to describe the category.
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