Category Archives: Professional Detailing

Lovebug residue covering a car's front end during Florida lovebug season
18
Sep
Guides & Tips, Matte Car Detailing Basics, Matte Car Washing, Professional Detailing

Lovebug Season in Florida: What Bugs Actually Do to Your Paint

Posted on by Jim Lafeber

If you’ve driven through Florida during lovebug season, you already know the drill. A few miles on the highway and the front of a clean car turns into a mess of black insect remains across the bumper, mirrors, hood, grille and windshield. During a heavy season it can feel pointless to even bother, because they’re […]

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urfactant Chemistry: How the Right Cleaner Matches the Soil
10
Sep
Guides & Tips, Interior Detailing, Professional Detailing

Lab Notes: Surfactant Class Alone Doesn’t Tell You What a Cleaner Is Good At

Posted on by Jim Lafeber

In the piece on why one interior cleaner can’t clean every stain, I made the case that strength is the wrong axis to think about. The real variable is chemistry matched to soil. That piece stayed at the practical level on purpose. This one goes underneath it, into the formulation chemistry that actually explains why […]

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Back-to-school car messes and the right cleaners for each
10
Sep
Guides & Tips, Interior Detailing, Professional Detailing

Back to School: 3 Messes That Need 3 Specific Cleaners

Posted on by Jim Lafeber

Early in the days of Simon’s Shine Shop, a detailer brought me a car that was almost finished. The interior looked immaculate except for one stain on the headliner that the team could not get out. They had already tried the strongest cleaner in the shop, and it hadn’t touched it. Their next move was […]

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Blue sports car hood with black racing stripes
20
Aug
Ceramic Coatings, Exterior Detailing, Featured, Guides & Tips, Interior Detailing, Professional Detailing

August Sun: Does Ceramic Technology Really Protect Against UV?

Posted on by Jim Lafeber

Park a vehicle outside on a sunny August afternoon and you can feel what the sun is doing before you ever see it. The paint becomes almost too hot to touch. The dashboard heats up. Leather, vinyl, plastics, rubber and exterior trim spend hours exposed to sunlight and elevated temperatures. Do that occasionally and very […]

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17
Jul
Exterior Detailing, Featured, Guides & Tips, Interior Detailing, Professional Detailing

When Does Cleaning Chemistry Actually Stop?

Posted on by Jim Lafeber

The Science Behind Dr. Beasley’s Adaptive Buffer Technology™  Every product we retire teaches us something.  Sometimes it means the product wasn’t good enough, and sometimes it means we’ve found a better way to solve a problem an existing product already solved well. pH Neutralizer falls firmly into the  second category: it worked exactly as intended, […]

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Detailing Business, Improvement, Matte Vehicles
14
Feb
Behind the Detail, Professional Detailing

Improve your Detailing Business by Offering Matte Services

Posted on by Will MacNeil

This isn’t going to be a blog on how to operate a detailing business, but it will tell you how to step up your game and rise above your competition. You got it, matte finishes is the trade to know to improve your detailing business. This is the part where you say, “Why? Hardly anyone […]

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Audi Headquarters Logo
28
Jul
Behind the Detail, Dr. Beasley's News, Featured, Matte Car Care, Professional Detailing, The Future of Detailing, Videos & Media

Audi’s S8 Plus and Soothing Their Fear of Matte Paint

Posted on by Jim Lafeber

Journey Into the World of Matte One of our very first blog posts, many years ago, was about matte vehicles. We were surprised that so many people commented on it, and at the amount of questions about matte car care that came through. With so much uncertainty out there, we realized that products for matte […]

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Close-up of Mercedes-Benz alloy wheel and tire
22
Dec
Behind the Detail, Featured, Matte Car Care, Professional Detailing

Road Salt & Matte Paint Protection

Posted on by Celine Witherell

Road salt is incredibly useful after a snow storm. It’s cheap and it melts snow and ice to make driving and walking safer during winter. Winter Wonderland While it’s great that the city salts the streets for you, road salt isn’t all good. It’s one of the best ways to make any car absolutely filthy […]

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