Reacta Gloss utilized a harder diminishing abrasive for consistency across different pressures and times. The abrasive was structurally smaller than Step 1 or Step 2 Compounds and was also less concentrated which required more time to bring to a higher finish when using a ball spinner.
It’s essential for bowling ball polish to use higher quality ingredients free of slip agents like glycerin, wax, or silicone. Power Edge is free of any slip agents but utilizes a new kind of abrasive never used before called an agglomerate. Imagine a cluster of grapes. These clusters will start out cutting the surface and removing the high points created by initially sanding the ball in the process, then the abrasive will break apart into smaller ball bearing like particles the more it’s used. When it breaks down into these particles, it will be more like a polishing abrasive, and it will smooth out the surface rather than “cut”. This is how Storm achieved the cutting and then the polishing action.
Usually, with “diminishing” abrasives, you start out with a big abrasive that slowly breaks down the more you use it. The advantage is that with a hard abrasive, you can get a lot of cut before it breaks down. The disadvantage is that a lot of times, the abrasive doesn’t break down enough to be a good finishing polish. By using the agglomerate type of abrasive, the initial cut still happens by removing the high points, but when it breaks down into the smaller clusters the polishing effect takes place quicker and preserves the underlying surface texture by taking less time to bring to a luster. This makes Power Edge the most effective polishing compound Storm has ever produced.