Cleaning Wax & Polishing bonnets

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When polishing my van, I get 1 use of a Terry Cloth application bonnet and 1 use of a fake sheep's wool polishing bonnet before they're loaded with old polish (Meguiar's #29). I use a random orbiter style machine.
Is there a detergent that will clean these well enough for reuse?
 
I appreciate that recommendation skyactiv. I will see if it's available in my area. Is this for a machine wash or a manual soak and hand wash? I'll need to go to a laundromat if it's intended for a machine wash. Those bonnets aren't going into my home machine!
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The Super Clean de-greaser is good for de-grucking oily engines, transmissions, and parts; it probably works on getting wax, etc. out of your polishing bonnets, but I wouldn't be sure it won't substantially damage the wool polishing bonnets in the process.

I wouldn't handle that cleaning task in a washing machine to start with. A pair of rubber gloves and and a utility sink with a hot water supply are where I do mine. Dawn dish-washing soap rubbed into the sponges and bonnets with a bit of water will take out a lot of stuff. Once you have a pretty good suds rubbed into them, rinse well, and repeat as necessary. It's a 10-minute task after using an applicator sponge for me. If you want to throw them into a washing machine with some Woolite after you've gotten the biggest load of wax and dirt out of them (I wouldn't skip the Dawn hand-washing step, particularly if you're not the primary oversee-er of the washing machine---she who is will not be pleased to see a ring of waxy, oily residue decorating the high-water mark on the machine's agitator and wash drum), I suppose that's do-able. Set them out/hang them to dry, and they're good-to-go again in a couple of days.
 
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