Perfectly Safe Brush

[Bunky]

DIY Detail is now selling a "Perfectly Safe Brush".

Born from the need for a reliable alternative to the Legacy Sponge on a stick, the Perfectly Safe Brush is expertly crafted to reach and clean those tricky spots without harming your vehicle’s paint. Featuring flagged tip bristles, it gently lifts away dirt and grime while protecting every finish. This brush makes detailing simpler and more effective, delivering precision cleaning with complete peace of mind.

And I was supposed to feel guilty using a noodle style wash mitt.

 

[Setec Astronomy]

Whatever is old is new again.

It's like with the MF towels, or ties, they cycle through the styles, hoping you'll throw out your old ones and then have to buy them all over again when they change the styles.

 

[DFB]

Got to laugh, this brush comes from a company whose spokesman insists using a pressure washer to rinse your car before foaming will scratch your paint, as in the high-pressure water is blasting dirt against your paint. And yet, a scrubbing your paint with a brush is perfectly fine?

I mean, I know he comes from a high-volume professional detailing background, so efficiency is his priority. But that is at odds with the whole DIY brand, which is aimed at the enthusiast pro0sumer market, not high-volume detail shops. Ultimate efficiency is not always a key priority for the pro-sumer/enthusiast, so why on earth would attacking your paint with a brush like that appeal?

 

[DFB]

Further to that, I recently heard someone say that using microfiber on leather is a big no-no because its effectively plastic, which therefore abrades the surface and causes premature wear. Apparently, we should all be using 100% pure cotton for leather cleaning.

I love detailing, but sometimes it all becomes so ridiculous that you end up always doing something "wrong".

 

[Setec Astronomy]

Apparently, we should all be using 100% pure cotton for leather cleaning.

This seems like a marketing angle that TRC should explore. As I alluded to earlier, first "you have to have waffle weave towels to dry your car" then once the market was saturated with that, "you really have to dry your car with a plush terry towel" and then once people stopped buying them, came the combination of the two (the "Pluffle"), then twist weave, then thicker twist weave, and now it's "you have to try our new thin drying towel!".

So "forget artificial towels made of plastic! Try our new 100% pure cotton for safe, natural cleaning!" could be a next step.

 

[DFB]

This seems like a marketing angle that TRC should explore. As I alluded to earlier, first "you have to have waffle weave towels to dry your car" then once the market was saturated with that, "you really have to dry your car with a plush terry towel" and then once people stopped buying them, came the combination of the two (the "Pluffle"), then twist weave, then thicker twist weave, and now it's "you have to try our new thin drying towel!".

So "forget artificial towels made of plastic! Try our new 100% pure cotton for safe, natural cleaning!" could be a next step.

For the record, the company in question who made this claim was a leather care company that doesn't actually sell towels, but their recommendation was to avoid "plastic" microfiber towels.

Now, please excuse me, I'm going to go and throw my entire collection of microfiber towels in the bin...............you know, better safe than sorry.

 

[Bunky]

The new is likely due to market saturation. Towels have a long life so need to make them obsolete
Detailers from 25 years likely had them for glass use although I used on my when I started but I did have lambs wool wash mitt.

 

[BLM]

Further to that, I recently heard someone say that using microfiber on leather is a big no-no because its effectively plastic, which therefore abrades the surface and causes premature wear. Apparently, we should all be using 100% pure cotton for leather cleaning.

I love detailing, but sometimes it all becomes so ridiculous that you end up always doing something "wrong".

Sounds like that came from someone with too much time on their hands and has allowed their mind to wander.

 

[Texchappy]

Further to that, I recently heard someone say that using microfiber on leather is a big no-no because its effectively plastic, which therefore abrades the surface and causes premature wear. Apparently, we should all be using 100% pure cotton for leather cleaning.

I love detailing, but sometimes it all becomes so ridiculous that you end up always doing something "wrong".

I have some cotton surgical huck towels (in the bottom of my kit and long unused) for just this reason. It was something I was told when I started out a couple of decades ago.

 

[chilly]

I have some cotton surgical huck towels (in the bottom of my kit and long unused) for just this reason. It was something I was told when I started out a couple of decades ago.

Yeah, and those huck towels became popular again a few years back although the fad didn’t seem to last long

It looks to me that a lot of these fads occur when a manufacturer or wholesaler or someone finds a stash of stuff that stopped selling years ago and they are hoping they can find a new market of either newbies or people with short memories


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[chilly]

DIY Detail is now selling a "Perfectly Safe Brush".

Born from the need for a reliable alternative to the Legacy Sponge on a stick, the Perfectly Safe Brush is expertly crafted to reach and clean those tricky spots without harming your vehicle’s paint. Featuring flagged tip bristles, it gently lifts away dirt and grime while protecting every finish. This brush makes detailing simpler and more effective, delivering precision cleaning with complete peace of mind.

And I was supposed to feel guilty using a noodle style wash mitt.


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The brush might actually be safe

IF (big if)

The person using it adopts safe washing methods like foaming and prerinsing, 2 buckets, sloped grit guard, blast with PW between sections

BUT (big but)

Most people who are handed a brush on a stick are going to pour Dawn into a mop bucket and go nuts

I watched people with million dollar plus RVs do that for years and all I could do was shake my head

 

[Optimus Grime]

The brush might actually be safe

IF (big if)

The person using it adopts safe washing methods like foaming and prerinsing, 2 buckets, sloped grit guard, blast with PW between sections

BUT (big but)

Most people who are handed a brush on a stick are going to pour Dawn into a mop bucket and go nuts

I watched people with million dollar plus RVs do that for years and all I could do was shake my head

It seems perfectly fine for soft tops and truck beds but I’d never put that on paint. I’d much prefer a MF mitt on a stick than any kind of brush like that on my paint.

 

[chilly]

It seems perfectly fine for soft tops and truck beds but I’d never put that on paint. I’d much prefer a MF mitt on a stick than any kind of brush like that on my paint.

This kind of goes back to the makeup brush discussion of a couple days ago

I would NEVER use that brush on a stick on a car or truck that I cared about, yet, I will happily use a quality fine boar's hair brush to clean emblems, window trim, cracks and crevices, etc

I think a LOT of that comes down to mindset

You grab a brush on a stick and you don't think "finesse, care, delicacy", you think "lets knock this mud off my 4x4"

When I grab a fine handheld boar's hair "pencil brush" I am thinking man I gotta flood this with heavy soap and use it like I am tickling a baby

IDK

Edited to add: I am in NO WAY endorsing that brush, I guess the point I am trying to make is anyone can scratch paint with the softest and safest wash media in the world, if they have the mindset and the lack of skill

Conversely a brush can be safe in the right hands

 

[Bunky]

The force you apply would be hard to control on a pole on the side and to top. I think that is the jump the shark product for them.

 

[Tasmania]

Bit early for an April fools joke DIY

 

[chilly]

Bit early for an April fools joke DIY

It's Yvan, so you got the fool part right anyway

 

[chilly]

I will add this to the discussion

20 years ago this OXO brush was advertised as being body paint safe

I used it for grilles and steps and stuff but I never would have used it on paint

It lives in my wheel bucket now

It is super soft and flagged and used with care it’s fine on my gloss black and charcoal Lexus rims

 

[Big DaveBig Dave is verified member.]

Well I'm just glad I kept my Meguiar's Soft Brush, with the removable, flippable head. I think I've had this 20 years. From memory I used it once on the roof of my Pathfinder, it kept wanting to spin in my hand, I then tried it on wheels, but the handle is too long, and when you take it off the handle you lose leverage. I'll say this though, the bristles are still incredibly soft.

 

[DFB]

This reminds me of a brush my grandfather had in the shed with his car cleaning stuff. I'm talking late 90's here, so it would have been from the 80's. Not the same as below, his was bright orange, but the concept was the same, as in plugging it into a garden hose. Maybe DIY should go all in with something like this, that would truly make it a "Perfectly Safe Brush". (Severe sarcasm intended)

 

[Tasmania]

Well I'm just glad I kept my Meguiar's Soft Brush, with the removable, flippable head. I think I've had this 20 years. From memory I used it once on the roof of my Pathfinder, it kept wanting to spin in my hand, I then tried it on wheels, but the handle is too long, and when you take it off the handle you lose leverage. I'll say this though, the bristles are still incredibly soft.

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Sexy Refection Dave! Are you wearing a night gown?