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Foam Cannons Compared: The Number That Decides Whether Yours Will Foam At All

Two foam cannons on our shelf, compared on published specs and real cost — including what the MTM kit actually costs once you price the litre of Koch Chemie inside it. Plus the flow-rate minimum th...

Buying AdviceFoamed Porsche 911 mid pre-wash at Alpha Details Melbourne with the Labocosmetica lineup and labelled dilution bottles

Four Neutral Shampoos, One Car: How to Actually Choose a Brand

We stock more than twenty pH-neutral car shampoos, and a customer told us that was a wall, not a range. So we compared what each brand actually costs per wash using the manufacturers' own dilution ...

What a Detail Actually Costs You: A Chemist's Cost-Per-Car Breakdown

A working Melbourne studio opens its books: what a three-pH wash costs in chemicals, how four brands compare per litre of working solution, and why the cheapest bottle is often the dearest product ...

Ceramic CoatingCeramic coating being applied by hand at the Alpha Details studio in Heidelberg West Melbourne

Is Your Ceramic Coating Actually On Your Car? A Chemist's Guide to Checking

A Tesla came into the studio today, six months into a ceramic coating, with no water behaviour at all. The owner was certain he'd been ripped off. We didn't answer him straight away — we washed...

Bilt HamberBilt Hamber Touch-Less sugar-based snow foam pre-wash

Bilt Hamber Touch-Less Dilution: The Chart, the Calculator & How to Read Your Foam

Exact Touch-Less doses for the most popular pressure washers — bigboi, AR630 V2, Active 2.0, Kärcher — plus a PIR calculator, the V1 vs V2 formula correction, and how to read your foam.

Best Snow Foam in Australia 2026: A Chemist Compares Six, pH 3 to 13

Which snow foam is best? A chemist compares six pre-wash foams sold in Australia — from pH <3 to 13.1 — using the manufacturers' own data sheets, and explains which one to buy for your car.