Sea sponge question

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detaildoc

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I just got a sea sponge, but I have a question before using it. For those of you who use this product, do you use all sides of the sponge on your car or only the flat side? The flat side is a lot smoother, but the round side feels softer. Man, this thing smells like a dirty fish tank :D



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Mine didn't come with instructions or anything like that, but I hold mine by the side that's cut from the factory and use the actual sea sponge side of it to do my washing. Despite many rinses, my sea sponges still has that salt water smell to it so I know what you mean about smelling like a fish tank. :)



If you really like the sea sponge, pick up a grout sponge one of these days and see how you like it... about $2 wasted if it turns out you don't like it. I haven't used my sea sponges in months. I really like how gentle the sponge is, but IMO it's TOO gentle, so I found myself having to "scrub" harder than I wanted to.
 
BlackElantraGT said:
Mine didn't come with instructions or anything like that, but I hold mine by the side that's cut from the factory and use the actual sea sponge side of it to do my washing. Despite many rinses, my sea sponges still has that salt water smell to it so I know what you mean about smelling like a fish tank. :)



If you really like the sea sponge, pick up a grout sponge one of these days and see how you like it... about $2 wasted if it turns out you don't like it. I haven't used my sea sponges in months. I really like how gentle the sponge is, but IMO it's TOO gentle, so I found myself having to "scrub" harder than I wanted to.
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I do have a grout sponge and I think it does an awesome job, I just don't like the feel of it (as opposed to the nice feel of the wool mitten) or the fact that it does no spread the suds as well. I wanted to try the sea sponge because I have read here that it is a lot softer. I plan to use it mostly on the hood, which is the part that is more likely to swirl. I have a Lexus ES350, and the clearcoat on those are as soft as it gets, I mean, you look at it and it swirls. So basically, you grab it by the flat side?
 
I could be wrong, but IMO it seems to make more sense to use the sea sponge side as that's the side with a lot of pores that the grit should be "pulled" into. Plus it's the side that usually has more cleaning surface area.
 
I love sea sponges and collect them from nearly every place I can get a genuine Rock Island sea wool sponge. I just got an 11" sponge made by Acme Sea Sponge for only $20.00!



I use all sides of the sponge. The cut end is the softest, but all sides work well.



For those people talk about marring; read again what BlackElantraGT said: "I really like how gentle the sponge is, but IMO it's TOO gentle, so I found myself having to "scrub" harder than I wanted to."



Can you say that about any other washing implement? Too soft? These things feel like slippery silk when wet with shampoo, rinse cleaner than anything else, hold a million times its weight in water, flush out as you wash and can fold up into a size of a golf ball.



These things get NO LOVE anywhere except among us silent users.
 
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