Eco Touch WCW24 Waterless Car Wash 24 oz
category: Going Green
- Easy spray + wipe application with no risk of scratching
- Great for city dwellers, water-restrictions or people looking for a simple cleaning solution
- Non-toxic, biodegradable and free of any VOCs, fragrances or dyes
- 4 – 6 washes per bottle, saves up to 800 gallons of water
- Effective on dirt, dust, pollen, bird droppings and more
Product Description
No more hose, bucket, or soapy mess. How? Simply spray your car with waterless car wash formula, wipe clean and admire away. Eco Touch will leave your car — and your conscience — clean. Directions: 1. Shake bottle well. 2. Spray on a microfiber towel and cool car surface. 3. Gently wipe and lift to pick up grime. 4. Quickly use a second dry towel and buff to shine. For excessively soiled surfaces (mud or sand) pre-rinse first with water. All ingredients: filtered water, plant-derived surfactants (for cleaning: alkyl polyglycosides), polymer emulsion (for shine: dimethicone), soda ash, preservative (less than .05%). Packaging: bottles from #2 polyethylene. Sprayer from blend of polyethylene/polypropylene. Both are 100% recyclable. ”
I needed to order a waterless wash overnight, as I had a detailing client coming in 2 days. Rather than order from some other site at over 100 dollars shipping to get it overnight, I decided to look on amazon for anything similar to Optimum No Rinse, and is qualified for Amazon Prime.
I found this product and placed my order.
It comes in a non-descript white bottle, with a nice sprayer. It could easily be refilled.
I followed the directions on the back of the bottle, spraying a cobra microfiber and then spraying my car’s body panels. I found that it left a lot of streaking, even when immediately following up with a super plush towel to wipe it down.
Even worse, when I pulled my car into the sun to look at it afterwards, I saw swirl marks. Lots of them. This does not happen with optimum no rinse, nor does it typically happen with Quick and Easy Wash.
This product leaves streaks, and doesn’t encapsulate dirt enough to safely wash my car. Don’t buy it unless maybe you want to clean your door jambs with the stuff.
Rating: 2 / 5
Pro’s – Good lubricity, good sprayer, no toxic chemicals or smells, don’t need a bucket of water or hose. Works great on standard finish wheels.
Con’s – Haze required too much effort and pushing on the paint in order to remove. Left major streaking that required a mist of water or quick detailer to remove. Due to the streaking, it took more elbow grease and time compared to a traditional wash or “rinse-less” wash. Bottle is really good for 3-4 washes as you need more product if you don’t want to scratch the paint.
Verdict – If you’re doing a road-trip car show event, this would be a good product to keep in the trunk based on convenience.
Rating: 3 / 5
I was excited to try this product because it’s green and seemed to be more convenient.
I tried using this both ways, pre-rinsing the car and not pre-rinsing the car. With both ways, this still requires a lot of elbow grease and doesn’t work that well. It does not take the dirt off well at all even on areas that were not really dirty.
Also, you can only do a small area at once like when you wax a car.
In my opinion, washing a car with soap and a bucket of water is more efficient and less time-consuming. Maybe if this product was not a spray an instead a soap that could be diluted in water, then it would work better.
Rating: 3 / 5
So I got the Vine packaging for this item, which was just one bottle of the stuff. It says that you need two microfiber cloths to use it properly. I didn’t have any so I had to go to the drugstore and spend another $12 for those. If the retail packaging doesn’t include microfiber cloths, I would take off even another star, but I’ll give it the benefit of the doubt. It was more the time-wasting factor that bothered me.
Car’s in the garage, dry; I tested this on an area of the trunk that had been very spotty and dirty. The first microfiber cloth came away filthy; the second one (to dry the product) came away somewhat dirty as well. Basically both microfiber cloths were dirty after working on a section of trunk about 1′ square. So I had to stop and go launder the microfiber cloths.
You see where I’m going with this, I hope. “Good for the environment,” they say. First I had to burn gas to go to the drugstore for the microfiber cloths. Sure, I could have ordered them from Amazon or somewhere else, but that gets UPS back on the street burning gas. Second, unless you have a microfiber cloth the size of your car, you’re never going to finish cleaning it with just two microfiber cloths. By the time I got mine laundered, the clean section was dirty again. Third, the water & energy spent to launder the cloths is not good for the environment.
I’m not much of a car-washing person anyway, but when I need to, I will continue doing it the old-fashioned way…which only requires water & soap and a sponge that washes clean pretty easily.
Rating: 3 / 5
Using this product may help get the car’s finish clean but it will absolutely lead to swirls and fine scratches in your clear coat. In fact, there is no claim anywhere on the bottle that backs up the “no risk of scratching” statement on the website. It actually warns you right on the label (in tiny print) to pre-rinse with water if there is “excessive soil” on the surface of the vehicle.
I am quite happy using it to clean non-painted surfaces. It works very well on wheels, exhaust tips and even windows. You won’t catch me using it anywhere near my car’s paint.
Rating: 2 / 5