Car wash soap

for using Simple Green as a car wash. @LTDSC Can you believe this?

I have some of the Chemical Guys Honeydew for my foam cannon. I usually use Adam's Car Shampoo the additional lubricity is a big plus.

 

i cant even with these people

Citrus gloss scares me as its supposed to be a soap yet is a stripper if you get too much of it. No thanks.

 

Same here. Not saying it's a bad product but that throws up a red flag for me.

 

Even dish soap can strip the wax or sealant off

If you can read the instructions on the back then you should be fine or two cap fulls into a 5 gallon bucket. Using a degreaser like simple green is a lot worse than using a soap made for automotive use.

 

im aware, thats why it has no business in a wash bucket.

 

Dish soap won't strip waxes/sealers. Any time you wash/wipe the surface, yes, it has the potential to abrade last step products. But it won't "strip" it, as many have been led to believe. Soaps leave surfactants on the surface that affect beading characteristics of waxes/sealers, but if you then do an isopropyl wipe down to remove the surfactants, the beading properties of the wax/sealer will return. There are good photos and evidence of this over on the Autogeek forum.

If you do a few dish soap washes, sure, it'll decrease the longevity of your wax/sealer. If you truly want to "strip" a last step product, polishing is the sure-fire way to go. Even some of the dedicated "wax removal" products can't get completely through some of the synthetic polymer last step products on the market today. Synthetic wax technology has come a long way in the last few years. And most of the "waxes" on the market now days have a significant synthetic component to them.

Just thought I'd share some things I've picked up on in my research.

 

Using dish soap regardless if it will strip wax or not is a bad idea for several reasons. It dries out plastics. It does not have the lubricity dedicated car soaps have (not talking big box junk either). No lubricity hello swirls.

An isopropyl wipe down will strip wax and polishing oils as well.

 

I agree- dish soap on cars is just bad. If you want your vehicle to look good for as long as it can, use dedicated car soaps, folks.

Here's a discussion about stripping with dawn. It didn't even put a dent in Powerlock.
http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/auto-detailing-101/60869-menzerna-powerlock-little-test.html