Does Turtle Wax’s Zip Wax Car Wash & Wax actually have wax in it?

Here’s proof showing if that giant bottle of soap actually has wax in it or not.

Strolling down the car care section at WalMart for a car wash soap and you’ll eventually come across this gallon-sized bottle from Turtle Wax. At 128 OZ’s and less than $6, the bottle of Zip Wax Car Wash & Wax is clearly the value king among all the other car wash soaps. And, it even has wax?

Here’s how I found out this affordable bottle of car wash soap does, in fact, have wax.

Earlier last month I washed our family’s car, as I do on the weekend. Then, later on in the day, it started to rain.

Mind you, it’d been a good three months since I gave this car a proper wax so any water from rain or an errant blast of the garden hose immediately sheeted off.

When I was taking out the trash after it stopped raining, I noticed the rain water was beading on the car’s paint instead of drying.

How can this be?

I haven’t waxed the car in a long time!

Then, I remembered that I used Turtle Wax’s Zip Wax Car Wash & Wax soap and concluded that, indeed, there was some kind of layer of wax left after I dried the car.

Motivated to now turn this newfound info into a blog post (that you’re reading) I looked up the ingredients in Zip Wax’s Car Wash & Wax available thanks to California’s Ingredients Disclosure laws and this is what I found.

There it is, listed under waxes, Peg-4 Montanate and Carnauba.

According to Wax Direct, “Montan wax is fossilized, 25- to 50-million-year-old carnauba wax.Montan has a higher melting point than carnauba, therefore giving you better product durability.“

And anyone at all familiar with car care knows what Carnauba Wax is, a mainstay ingredient in waxes for decades.

Extracted from the Carnauba Palm, it’s a natural vegatable-based wax known for boosting a paint’s warmth when properly applied.

It’s worth noting that the layer of wax left using this Zip Wax Car Wash & Wax soap is probably super thin and is no substitute for a real liquid or paste wax job post car wash.

It is, however, leaving a layer of protection that might last for a week and is better than nothing.

Using Zip Wax Car Wash & Wax once a week or every two weeks is also probably a good way to maintain your wax job’s protection, adding another sacrificial layer of wax on top of whatever wax is left over.

All in all, I’m now more of a fan of this cheap gallon-sized bottle of car wash soap now more than ever.

If you’re shopping for a car wash soap, don’t hesitate buying this one.

If you do, it would behoove you to pour some of it into a smaller bottle because, when full, you’re more likely to pour more than you need.

But yes, this Zip Wax Car Wash & Wax does have actual wax.