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What Are The Best Microfiber Towels for Polish & Compound Removal? | FAQ

What Are The Best Microfiber Towels for Polish & Compound Removal? | FAQ

A person scrubbing the hood of a red car with an ice grey Edgeless towel.

Microfiber towels are incredibly useful and versatile tools. You can use a microfiber towel for any part of a detail: exterior washing, drying, interior cleaning, adding or buffing polish, or wiping away compounds or protectants. 

That being said, each towel has its strengths and weaknesses. If you tried to wash your car using a full-size Liquid8r, it would be very heavy and unwieldy. Conversely, if you tried to dry your car with the All-Purpose Terry Towel, you would have to use a whole pack to dry one car.

So, which microfiber towels in The Rag Company's lineup do we consider the best for polish & compound removal? Anthony explains in this FAQ video. The list is below.

The Rag Company's picks for polish & compound removal towels

Edgeless 365

  • 70/30 blend
  • Edgeless design
  • Scratchless workhorse
  • Universal uses (Interior, exterior, wheels, polishes, sealants, general cleaning)
  • Excellent performance on soft and black paint.
  • Great "bite" and pressure

Creature Edgeless 420

  • 70/30 blend
  • Heavier and denser pile than the 365 and higher GSM
  • Edgeless design
  • Dual pile design.
  • Spreads pressure better.

Eagle Edgeless 350

  • 70/30 blend.
  • Edgeless circular-knit weave like all Eagle Edgeless towels.
  • Shine in polish removal, less effective with compounds due to being so soft and unable to apply as much pressure.

Other great options

 

What makes a good compound and polish removal towel?

Part of it depends on what type of polish or compound you use, what pad, you use, working conditions, and more nitty gritty rabbit hole factors. Our goal here is to use a simple approach that is a very good catch-all microfiber towel that works with today's modern polishes and compounds.

Other things to note:

  • Edgeless 365’s or Creature Edgeless are probably our most popular “do-it-all” towels. They’re not going to clean windows as well as a dedicated glass towel or dry a car as fast as a dedicated drying towel, but they’re versatile and great for wiping sealants, waxes, polishes, etc.
  • If you're concerned about pressure, you can go with the 365, Pearl, or even the Ultra Rip N' Rag XL. You'll get a good amount of bite from both the 300 and 365, but folding in fourths always helps.