The Alpha Details Car Care Chemistry Handbook: What's Actually In The Bottle
Every bottle in this industry is sold to you on a number, a colour or a smell. pH 2. pH 12. Cherry. Purple. Almost none of it is sold to you on what is actually inside — which is the only thing...
Foam Cannons Compared: The Number That Decides Whether Yours Will Foam At All
Two foam cannons on our shelf, compared on published specs and real cost — including what the MTM kit actually costs once you price the litre of Koch Chemie inside it. Plus the flow-rate minimum th...
Four Neutral Shampoos, One Car: How to Actually Choose a Brand
We stock more than twenty pH-neutral car shampoos, and a customer told us that was a wall, not a range. So we compared what each brand actually costs per wash using the manufacturers' own dilution ...
What a Detail Actually Costs You: A Chemist's Cost-Per-Car Breakdown
A working Melbourne studio opens its books: what a three-pH wash costs in chemicals, how four brands compare per litre of working solution, and why the cheapest bottle is often the dearest product ...
Is Your Ceramic Coating Actually On Your Car? A Chemist's Guide to Checking
A Tesla came into the studio today, six months into a ceramic coating, with no water behaviour at all. The owner was certain he'd been ripped off. We didn't answer him straight away — we washed...
Best Snow Foam in Australia 2026: A Chemist Compares Six, pH 3 to 13
Which snow foam is best? A chemist compares six pre-wash foams sold in Australia — from pH <3 to 13.1 — using the manufacturers' own data sheets, and explains which one to buy for your car.