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Idrops

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I know this has been beat to death, but I still can't find any 100% cotton mitts locally. I've resorted to just use the Viking ones that don't say 100% cotton any more. Does anyone know what evil can become of this? Will my car melt? Will I flunk Autopia?



Hopeless in Orlando.
 
Join the club. I'm still swiping small samples of chenille mitts I come across and haven't found a good one (or one I liked) yet. Next up tomorrow is a chenille pad, rather than a mitt. This is OK since I sometimes like to hold it on the outside.



Nothing wrong with my sheepskin mitt, but white is easier to see dirt in. I know you can mail order, but I'm not going to go to those lengths!



"100% cotton" ISN'T! :(
 
..I purchased 5 cotton chenille wash mitts (made by "Turtle Wax") at Walmart. They were $2.50 each. They are compact which I really like but their best feature is that they are not disintegrating in the wash machine. In fact, after numerous washes (gentle wash cycle), they still appear virtually new and have shed only minimal fibres.



I have tried many different cotton chenille wash mitts and never found any that lasted. These Turtle Wax mitts seem to be an excellent value.



:xyxthumbs
 
I purchased on from Walmart as well. You might want to prewash the mitt first. All the weatherstriping around the windows was covered with white lint from the mint on the first use.
 
tom p. said:
..I purchased 5 cotton chenille wash mitts (made by "Turtle Wax") at Walmart. They were $2.50 each. They are compact which I really like but their best feature is that they are not disintegrating in the wash machine. In fact, after numerous washes (gentle wash cycle), they still appear virtually new and have shed only minimal fibres.



I have tried many different cotton chenille wash mitts and never found any that lasted. These Turtle Wax mitts seem to be an excellent value.



:xyxthumbs
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Have you (or anyone) tested these mitts for true 100% cotton content?



I've had pretty good experiences with Turtle Wax accessories so far, so I feel they probably really are cotton, but....
 
I was starting to wonder the same thing. They do seem to be almost, well, too durable.



Not quite sure how to verify it and I doubt the packaging label is required to state it since you don't eat these things.



Any thoughts?



I 'spose we could send a quik note to Turtle Wax for verification.
 
Heh heh sorry, I forgot to ever mention it: it's a burn test. You just snip off a bit of chenille from the inside or something and burn it on a piece of tinfoil to see if it leaves any funny residues or hard melted stuff. Pure cotton shouldn't leave much but ash.



This explains my behavior of taking small samples from mitts I come across. :)
 
Sorry to hijack your thread, but i couldn't sse the need to open a new one... doh! :o



Why are you using cotton as oppposed to natural wool?

I've heard natural wool is very, very good, if not better than cotton... someone please reassure my newly purchased wool mitt! Oh... and I bought it at Wal-Mart, that place reeks of right wing fanaticism. :D



Colin
 
I found some chenille mits at target about 3 months back. They also had some lamb's wool wash mits as well.



Im not sure if they are 100% cotton or what, but ill test them tommorow and report back!
 
masterofreality said:


Why are you using cotton as oppposed to natural wool?

I've heard natural wool is very, very good, if not better than cotton... someone please reassure my newly purchased wool mitt! Oh... and I bought it at Wal-Mart, that place reeks of right wing fanaticism. :D



Colin
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lol! I want a chenille mitt because, as I stated eariler, it's white so any dirt and grime I pick up will be easier to find/see.



I also currently use a sheepskin mitt and so do lots of other people. They're just fine and really soft. If you can't get chenille, get sheepskin. :)
 
Oh, OK thanks Brian!:up

One thing I just noticed about my wool mitt... it's hard to pick out the dirt & crap, it all gets embedded in there! And I only used it a few times! I find myself spraying it with the hose and picking/rinsing the crap out of it, but it does work good. I'll see if they have any decent chennille mitts at Wally-World. :D
 
CMA's MF mitts are the best, i love them. The backing on cotton chenille mitts tend to swirl the paint on our cars so i never use them. rims only!
 
Don did his CD scratch test with a variety of wash mitts? I don't know if this thread could be found in the archives but he found, after much rubbing, that cotton chenille did the least amount of damage to a new CD, IIRC.
 
AlBoston said:
CMA's MF mitts are the best, i love them. The backing on cotton chenille mitts tend to swirl the paint on our cars so i never use them. rims only!
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I'll cast my vote for the CMA mf mitts :up. A while back I added one to the list of stuff in my purchase at CMA and it has held up perfectly. It's very soft, fits on the hand nicely and cleans up easily. If I had one complaint it would be that it's not really thick like a lambswool or even chenille mitt would be. Therefore it doesn't hold onto suds really well but it is a very minor complaint. Actually the fact that it's not super thick makes it easy to pick out any hard crud that may get embedded in the mf fibers.
 
CMA's MF mitts are the best, i love them. The backing on cotton chenille mitts tend to swirl the paint on our cars so i never use them. rims only!
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The backing material of the mitt should not be touching the paint Ali. Perhaps you have a bad mitt. I had a couple like that, as soon as you got them wet they really thinned out. Been using Viking 100% Cotton as of late, and no thinning. :up
 
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