Your LSP performance is none of your beeswax.

[WaxAddict]

I love to see those beautiful photographs of tight water beads on a newly waxed surface. No harm, it’s fun, and it’s beautiful. Trouble is: it means basically nothing. If you use a natural carnauba-based wax and it doesn’t bead, you’ve done something wrong. Just as the banana tree leaves in my back yard bead water, so should carnauba.

A month later? Now we’re talking about real data.
Six months and still tight beads? Now THAT picture is worthy of the refrigerator. Maybe.

Trouble is, if you’ve been using a car wash with wax, then take pictures of your “awesome tight beads”, it’s still misleading data. Often, products contain very soft waxes that bead well – beeswax, candelilla – but offer very little protection. These waxes do no harm, and they look good. Nothing wrong with them.

Point is, the next time you see a review of waxes recently applied to the deck of a car, and the reviewer is using beading as a judgment factor, just know that the winning wax likely had an extra 49 cents of beeswax in it. Nothing wrong with that. Just sayin’.

If you want to test the longevity of waxes, DO use beading as a factor, just don’t use car washes and QD’s with wax in them during your test.

If you want to review waxes based on beading, DO take pretty photographs and post them, just don’t say it’s the best because it beaded better than Brand-X.

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Now, regarding beeswax specifically, nothing looks better on cars IMO. Protection for hours, assuming it`s not hot outside.

[The Driver]

I don`t use wax anymore

[WaxAddict]

I don`t use wax anymore

You are probably in the majority these days. I`m a wax holdout. Wax is more funner.

[JVD]

People still use nubas?

Lol.

[Swanicyouth]

I do know one thing. No beading usually = no wax. So, since we can`t "see" the wax on paint, we make the assumption the better that wax beads, the more it "remains".

It seems like a logical conclusion to me.

I`m not sure if you differentiate wether a wax has beeswax, carnauba, candilla wax - or all 3 by the size or "tightness" of the beads. That`s a new one to me.