If you picked up the System 4000 Pad Washer, this is the other half of the equation. Snappy Clean Boost is the cleaning powder Lake Country designed the washer around, and it's what actually breaks the dead compound and polish out of your pads while the machine does the agitating.
Here's the thing about pad cleaning that most people get wrong: water alone doesn't cut it. Polish and compound oils bond into the foam structure, and if you just rinse and squeeze, you're leaving spent abrasives and carrier oils buried in the pad. Next time you polish, that contamination comes back out onto your paint. Snappy Clean Boost is a concentrated powder that chemically releases wax, polish, and compound buildup from foam, wool, and microfiber pads in just a few minutes of soaking. The pad comes out clean, soft, and supple instead of stiff and crusty.
Using it with the System 4000 is dead simple: fill the pail with water, dump in one packet, and run your pads through per the washer's instructions. No pad washer? It still works. Fill a bucket with water, add the powder, drop your dirty pads in to soak for a few minutes, then agitate with a pad brush and rinse. Either way, the formula rinses out completely with no residue left behind to interfere with your next polishing session.
It's biodegradable and non-flammable, so you're not dealing with harsh solvents in your garage or dumping anything nasty down the drain.
Clean pads cut correctly, finish better, and last dramatically longer. If you're going to reuse pads at all, use this.
With the System 4000 Pad Washer:
Bucket soak method: