Is it safe to use wash and wax on a fabric hood?
Sunday, September 3rd, 2006
Yep!
Wash and wax isn’t the very best of products to use to protect a fabric hood and it’s no substitute for having the hood properly treated on a fairly regular basis, but the shampoo part of the product is fine for day-to-day cleaning, and the wax part will certainly do no harm. In fact, it will help protect it from the elements.
Reproofing is the best thing for a hood and this needs doing once every 12-18 months, but before reproofing the hood should be properly cleaned and this will remove any of the wax residue.

