Snow Foam

Our Avalanche Snow Foam, a professional snow foam, works by creating a thick, citrus-infused foam that clings to your car’s surfaces, pulling traffic film, grit, and grime off at a molecular level. Road grime, pollutants, and obstinate filth are broken down and encapsulated by this potent foam. It safely lifts these particles away, allowing them to be rinsed off before any physical contact, ensuring a much safer and more effective pre-wash for your vehicle.

Snow foam is safe and effective on all exterior surfaces, including glass, rubber trim, vinyl wrap, and even wheels. Our Avalanche Snow Foam is pH balanced and formulated to protect waxes and coatings while cleaning tough grime. We recommend using a soft brush for crevices or window rubbers to ensure full coverage, but otherwise you can spray, dwell, and rinse—and trust that our snow foam has done the heavy lifting.

Lavish Ceramic Snow Foam offers outstanding benefits, combining cleaning with ceramic protection. It applies an ultra-hydrophobic SiO2 layer, providing extreme water beading, sheeting, and a glass-like shine. We love that Lavish creates a glass-like barrier that beads water, reduces grime adhesion, and enhances shine—all without extra effort. Simply apply the foam to a wet car, then rinse it off and dry the surface: this provides protection and a finish in one step.

Our Avalanche Snow Foam is safe for matte and satin finishes, as it’s wax-, sealant-, and coating-friendly and won’t strip or gloss up those sensitive surfaces. We recommend using Avalanche gently and always rinsing before the foam fully dries. For added protection, following up with Lavish Ceramic Snow Foam helps maintain finish integrity and hydrophobic performance.

Our Avalanche Snow Foam is designed to create a thick, clinging foam that lingers on your car’s surfaces, allowing ample time for it to work. While we don’t specify an exact ideal dwell time in minutes, the key is to let the snow foam visibly break down and lift the dirt before rinsing thoroughly. This guarantees minimal effort and optimum cleaning efficiency.

For the thickest, most effective foam with our professional snow foam products like Avalanche and Lavish Ceramic, we recommend using a pressure washer with a snow foam lance. However, if you don’t have a pressure washer, our Foaming Pump Sprayer allows you to use our snow foams effectively without one, making it convenient for everyone. Our Foaming Pump Sprayer produces rich, even foam for full-vehicle pre-wash and ceramic application.

Absolutely! Our Avalanche Snow Foam is specifically formulated to be safe on all exterior vehicle surfaces, including those with existing wax, sealant, or ceramic coatings. This snow foam effectively cleans without stripping or compromising your vehicle’s protection, ensuring your finish remains intact and protected after the pre-wash. In fact, using Avalanche as a pre-wash prepares the surface for subsequent maintenance steps, like adding foam protection or topping up with Lavish Ceramic Snow Foam to refresh the SiO₂ layer.

The key difference lies in their primary function. Our Avalanche Snow Foam focuses solely on delivering a powerful pre-wash, lifting dirt and grime effectively. In contrast, Lavish Ceramic Snow Foam, widely regarded as the best snow foam, applys an SiO2 ceramic protective layer, adding hydrophobicity and shine but does NOT clean. We recommend using Avalanche first for cleaning, followed by Lavish for protection and shine.

Snow foam, like our Avalanche and Lavish Ceramic, significantly reduces swirl marks by loosening and lifting dirt and abrasive contaminants from your vehicle’s paintwork without physical contact. This crucial pre-wash step means that when you proceed to the contact wash, there’s considerably less abrasive material present, drastically lowering the risk of inflicting scratches.

It takes perfecting of application techniques to improve the outcomes of snow foam before a car wash. Experts recommend pre-rinsing your vehicle to remove excess dirt and loose debris. Also, they advise on layering foam evenly, leaving no exterior surface behind. It’s best to apply all over the wheels, grilles, and arches. Lastly, apply from the bottom of the ride and move upwards gradually.

The ideal thickness is usually achieved using a 3:1 water to snow foam ratio. When using Avalanche, 1-2 inches of the solution mixed with fresh water in a 1-litre snow foam pump sprayer ensures a swirl-free pre-wash.

Ceramic snow foams offer up to 6 months of protection when the ride is maintained with pH-neutral products, including car wash shampoos.

Absolutely! Designed to leverage air pressure for mixing the cleaning solution with water, it produces a light layer of snow foam. At Auto Finesse, ours are incrementally marked to allow for accurate dilutions. Plus, there is an added advantage—you can switch between spray patterns and enjoy a quick shine on your car.

Chances are, you have diluted the snow foam incorrectly. The outcome is watery when too little concentrate is used. Conversely, too much can result in a thick foamy layer. Our advice is to check the fine print on your bottle for the correct solution.