Don't Glo There.. (Orange Glo Wood Cleaner & Polish)

Member Name: mike0910

Product:	Orange Glo Wood Cleaner & Polish
Date:	22/02/03 (4473 review reads)
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Advantages: Dissolves waxy grime

Disadvantages: Leaves sticky film, Not really a polish, Expensive

I just don't get this product. I bought a bottle partly to remove a wax polish haze from a varnished wooden table, and partly out of curiosity. (It did help the table, but only after several applications and a lot of elbow grease. And I would guess that drop of white spirit would have done a similar job, at a fraction of the cost.)

Orange Glo is a thinnish orange liquid which smells of oranges and petrochemicals. It is quite good at cleaning oily or waxy grime from a non-porous surface, but is it really valid to describe it as a polish? Initially the surface it is applied to looks very shiny, but that is just a film of liquid. If you wipe off the excess, you are left with a thin, rather sticky film, which dries slowly without any shine. And I'm not convinced that the protective qualities claimed on the label really amount to much. It certainly isn't as water repellent as wax polish.

You need to be careful applying Orange Glo to worn surfaces which have varying porosity, as it has a very low solids content and just soaks into the most porous areas. This can result in uneven darkening of the wood, although this is largely a temporary effect.

The best I can say for this product is that it does freshen up compatible surfaces, but overall I would prefer to stick with more mainstream products such as Pledge Clean and Dust, which works well and costs a lot less.

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