About Adam's Polishes
Adam's Polishes was started by Adam Pitale, who began polishing bicycles at age nine and moved on to washing and waxing cars in his neighborhood by age ten -- an early obsession with shine that grew into a full car-care brand carrying his name. Pitale remains active with the company today as its Chief Detailer and public face. Adam's corporate office, production facility, and retail showroom are based at 8225 N. Valley Hwy in Thornton, Colorado, where the company blends its chemicals in-house from raw materials sourced globally and hand-packages every product at the warehouse. Adam's became a subsidiary of Recochem in 2020, joining the company's family of car-care brands while continuing to operate under the Adam's name and Pitale's direction.
The brand's catalog spans car shampoos, cleaners, protectants, polishes, and ceramic coatings for the exterior and interior surfaces of cars, trucks, RVs, and boats, sold direct-to-consumer through its own site and through Amazon. On RevRated, Adam's Polishes products are independently featured across five separate roundups: the 9mm Swirl Killer Polisher Kit pairs a 1,000-watt DA polisher with the brand's own correcting compound and finishing polish, the Graphene Shampoo and Advanced Graphene Ceramic Coating both use graphene-infused chemistry to build hydrophobic protection, the Clay Mitt is a reusable synthetic decontamination format, and the Wheel & Tire Cleaner carries Amazon's Choice status backed by thousands of verified ratings.
Brand website: adamspolishes.com
What Adam's Polishes makes
Adam's Polishes's range runs wider than the products we review. The lines we know best from our own testing are marked with a star:
Graphene coatings & shampoos
graphene-infused ceramic coating and wash chemistry -- featured on RevRated — featured on RevRated
9mm Swirl Killer polisher kits
complete DA polisher kits bundled with Adam's own compound and finishing polish -- featured on RevRated — featured on RevRated
Clay mitts & decon tools
reusable synthetic clay-infused microfiber mitts for paint decontamination -- featured on RevRated — featured on RevRated
Wheel & tire cleaners
non-acid, all-in-one wheel, tire, and wheel-well cleaning sprays -- featured on RevRated — featured on RevRated
Interior care
leather, vinyl, and upholstery cleaners and protectants
Waxes & sealants
traditional carnauba wax and polymer sealant lines
Why we recognized Adam's Polishes
The RevRated Top Brand recognition isn't paid for and can't be applied for. We award it to the brands whose products consistently stand out in our hands-on category reviews. Adam's Polishes earned it on the strength of the products below, evaluated the same way every product on this site is: bought, run on real vehicles, and judged on merit.
Adam's Polishes products we rated highly
Adam's Polishes 9mm Swirl Killer Polisher Kit
A 1,000-watt motor matched to a 9mm throw delivers genuinely capable enthusiast-tier cutting speed, and the kit arrives complete with Adam's own correcting compound and finishing polish -- the same formulations Adam's sells separately to detailing pros, not a watered-down kit-only chemistry. The 16-foot cord is the longest in our test group, and it's one of our top picks among the complete-kit polishers we tested.
Read the 7 Best Car Polishers of 2026 guide →
Adam's Polishes Graphene Shampoo — 1 Gallon
Graphene polymer technology infused directly into the wash formula deposits a thin layer of hydrophobic protection with every wash, actively building on rather than just maintaining a graphene or ceramic base coat. The thick, cling-on foam and the post-wash shine reviewers describe as noticeably deeper stood out in our testing, and the extreme in-wash lubrication is the correct way to protect paint during contact washing.
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Adam's Polishes Advanced Graphene Ceramic Coating
Patented UV tracing technology lets you see exactly where the coating has been applied under a UV flashlight, eliminating the missed-spot guesswork that trips up first-time users of clear liquid coatings on dark or metallic paint. A 10H hardness rating with 50 percent more coating resin than the previous Adam's formula, plus graphene oxide that reduces water spotting, makes this one of our top picks among the true ceramic coatings we tested.
Read the 8 Best Ceramic Coatings for Cars of 2026 guide →
Adam's Polishes Clay Mitt - Medium Grade
The fastest decontamination format we tested -- a full hood goes from contaminated to glass-smooth in seconds rather than the minutes a traditional clay bar requires, cutting a full vehicle decon from roughly 45 minutes down to about 15. Reusable and washable across many sessions, with a medium grade that handles paint overspray and brake-dust contamination a fine-grade bar can't fully clear.
Read the 7 Best Clay Bar Kits of 2026 guide →
Adam's Polishes Wheel & Tire Cleaner, 16 oz
A genuine all-in-one that cleans wheels, tires, and wheel wells with a single non-acid spray, cutting a step out of the wash routine. Amazon's Choice with 5,744 ratings at a 4.5-star average is a deep, well-validated track record, and the broad finish compatibility across most rim types means one bottle covers a daily driver, a project car, and a truck alike.
Read the 11 Best Wheel Cleaners of 2026 guide →What earned Adam's Polishes the recognition
- Featured across five separate RevRated detailing roundups: car polishers, car wash soaps, ceramic coatings, clay bar kits, and wheel cleaners.
- The Advanced Graphene Ceramic Coating is one of the products we rated highest in our ceramic coating testing, combining a 10H hardness rating with patented UV tracing technology that shows exactly where the coating has been applied.
- The Graphene Shampoo's graphene-infused chemistry builds hydrophobic protection with every wash rather than simply cleaning, a genuine step forward from standard shampoo formulas in our testing.
- The Wheel & Tire Cleaner carries Amazon's Choice status backed by 5,744 ratings at a 4.5-star average, one of the deeper review bases in our wheel-cleaner coverage.
- Founded by Adam Pitale, who chemicals-blends and hand-packages every product at the company's own Thornton, Colorado facility, and who remains the brand's Chief Detailer and public face today.