What is the best Car Wash Soap that you have used?

**AaronC** · 12-26-2013, 08:38 PM

Lusso I was looking for it but no where to be found in ag

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**brianch** · 12-28-2013, 07:33 PM

Duragloss, optimum, CG citrus

**Solomonn** · 01-02-2015, 12:23 PM

Originally Posted by Meticulous-Detail

DG 901 for maintenance
Megs Hyper Wash for maintenance
CG Citrus Wash n Gloss for stripping wax and squeaky clean
Want to get Auto Finesse Avalanche for the winter crud

Bump!

What dilution do you use for the CGW&G for stripping wax and for it to not strip wax but be "squeaky clean"?

**Badboyztn** · 01-02-2015, 10:15 PM

Optimum
Griots

**custmsprty** · 01-02-2015, 10:53 PM

I like CG Honeydew in my foamer.

**Toxix** · 01-02-2015, 11:18 PM

Duragloss 901/Ultima Car Wash for maint and regular washes
Chemical Guys Citrus Wash and Gloss for stripping + heavy cleaning

**BMW435** · 01-17-2015, 12:34 AM

Optimum

**Sicoupe** · 01-17-2015, 12:53 AM

DP extreme soap.

**PiPUK** · 01-17-2015, 06:50 AM

I clearly missed this the first time around! A few thoughts for you:

1) There is no magic 'wax safe' option. I'll be blunt - I know of nothing water soluble which will definitely strip wax (or have even the slightest chance against a polymer sealant), when diluted down beyond 20%. Those things which do have that chance will be sufficient to strip the paint, were you to use them neat. These products which claim to strip wax are misleading you. I have demonstrated this again and again - they leave a film of surfactants which make it look like the wax has been stripped. If you know about this, you can get that film off and 'recover' the water repellency of the previous LSP. As a corollary to this, if I (as a chemical manufacturer and access to almost everything chemical cleaning) am unable to strip the LSP products which I have tried, and you are convinced that you can, then the difference must be the LSP and you cannot avoid the conclusion that your choice of LSP is just rubbish.

2) General cleaning - I am a bit stumped by people jumping up and down about shampoos. We see reviews where people talk about the cleaning power of shampoo. How is this so? Every single shampoo I have used has succeeded in getting the car squeaky clean. The cleaning in this process is done by your wash media (sponge/mitt/etc). The shampoo solution is mainly a lubricant to the process. I am just perplexed by how someone has found that one particular shampoo is much better than the other for cleaning. The best thought that I would have is that they have used insufficient shampoo to get the lubrication required which then results in the user failing to do enough work with the wash mitt.