Your Ideal Product Line-Up for My Small Budget Please

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Why Woolite for leather? I have Lexol leather cleaner the spray kind. I heard to stay away from bars because they have glycerine, I guess I should check and see if the spray has it too. Thanks for all the advice guys, keep it coming! What`s a good "one stop shop" website where I can get my line-up and only pay shipping once?



If you have the Lexol I`d just use that, never found anything wrong with it myself. Woolite is just something that usually works quite well and is cheap and available.



One-stop shopping: Top of the Line Auto Detailing Supplies (http://www.topoftheline.com/index.html) and/or Aloha & Welcome to Our Oasis for All Your Auto Detailing Supplies & Accessories (http://www.pakshak.com/index.html) but I`m overlooking *so* many others that I really hate to post (only) those two (see also http://www.danase.com/ and Welcome to Excel! (http://www.exceldetail.com/) and "sorry" to everyone I didn`t mention).



I`d spend some money on stuff that many take for granted: wash suplies including a foamgun (Danase again) and some very good MF towels.



And I agree with Firegate, you can get by with 1Z polish and some LSP like Collinite if you work by hand. Polishers are nice (hey, I have five of `em) but they aren`t essential (look at how long ScottWax did everything by hand and MirrorFinishMan still does...and those guys are making their living at this stuff).

[Scottwax]

Well, if budget is your main goal then Optimum.



PoliSeal

Protectant Plus

Optimum Tire Shine-Armor All-Bold&Bright for tires.







I`d add Optimum No Rinse for washing, plus at QD strength, it works great on paint and glass.

[peterp]

Gliptone (not sure UK Gliptone brand is the same as the US Gliptone) Liquid Leather Cleaner and Conditioner



I contacted Gliptone to ask this question for the following reasons:



a) it seems to be regarded as a high-end product in the UK and as a "as seen on TV" low-end brand in the US

b) the instructions for the conditioner is different for the UK/Europe 250ml bottle vs the US 8oz version -- the UK bottle says no wiping is required after applying the conditioner because it is fully absorbed -- the US version says some wiping may be required



This was the response verbatim from Gliptone:


Almost Identical. You would not notice any difference. As I mentioned in my

email, we ship the concentrate over in bulk. In the final processing of the

product, you may detect the slightest difference in viscosity. The labeling

is different for the different to better suit the UK market.



I had purchased both versions prior to asking and they look about the same. The write-up on the UK site (gliptone.com) is pretty compelling and what convinced me to try was that it was the first product I`ve seen where the conditioner is fully absorbed and doesn`t require wiping. I`ve only used it so far in a spot test on an area treated previously with Leatherique and Lexol and I think it compares favorably -- seemed to soften the leather. Supposedly there was an independent test in the UK that found Gliptone superior to Leatherique and UK, but I haven`t been able to find it (just heard about it on a web forum and that`s what made take a look at it). Unfortunately, I haven`t tried it enough yet to make a strong statement about how effective it is.