About ChemCX

What is ChemCX?

ChemCX helps you understand why you love the products you love—and how to find the best product for what you need at any given moment.

No marketing fluff. Just chemistry.

Why we exist

Every detailing product promises to be the best. But when you actually use them, some just work better than others.

I kept coming back to the same products—Griot's Garage Speed Shine, Carbon Collective Detailer, P&S Brake Buster—without really understanding why they felt better than the alternatives. The marketing all sounded the same. I wanted to know if there was something objectively different, or if it was just in my head.

Turns out, the answers are in the Safety Data Sheets. The chemistry explains what marketing won't tell you.

How we analyze

We dig into Safety Data Sheets (SDS) to understand what's actually in each product—pH levels, surfactants, active ingredients, chelating agents. Where available, we use ingredient disclosures to fill out the picture.

Everything on ChemCX is based on publicly available information. We make the best possible assessment of each product's formulation based on what brands disclose.

We're doing our best to analyze the chemistry with what we have—and understand why we love the products we love.

Where we are

We started with wheel cleaners as our first category. Now we're expanding into iron removers, bug removers, and beyond.

We're adding new categories and new products every day. If there's a specific product you'd like us to analyze, we're open to requests and suggestions.

Who's behind this

I'm Dean—an obsessive weekend warrior who found himself tracking product usage in ever-growing spreadsheets.

One day I was comparing microfiber washes and realized that hot water and chelating agents mattered for hard water. That one discovery meant I'd been getting worse results than I could have. It made me wonder what else I was missing.

ChemCX is the tool I wanted but couldn't find.

What we don't do

No sponsored rankings. No paid placements. Everything is objective based on disclosed chemistry.

Nothing is gamed.