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Disclaimer: I found this on YouTube, in a car model-making video. I did not discover this on my own...

The secret ingredient of the infamous, Magic Wash formula, was Future/Pledge Floor Shine, until they stopped making it, around 2021?

I learned of a replacement for it: Quick Shine Floor Polish, available at Wal-Mart stores, and online.

Cost?

$6.87, for a 27 ounce bottle, or 25.4 ¢/fluid ounce, in US money.

Is it the same product? Will it work the same? Can I add any acrylic polymer paint to it, to make custom colored washes for my miniatures?

Take a look at the ingredient list, from Wal-Mart's site:

Filtered Water, Zinc Free Polymer, Polymer Emulsion, Plasticizer, Mild Solvent, Leveling Surfactant, Biodegradable Preservative, Antifoam.

The Polymer indicates it is acrylic, like paint; the Surfactant is the chemical which breaks surface tension, allowing it to flow into nooks, crannies, and recesses, through capillary action, drawing the diluted pigment particulates into the folds of the models. This is precisely what Future/Pledge Floor Shine did. It is the same basic formula, it performs the same way.

Hallelujah, Baby! I am a dyed-in-the-wool Dip'er, and I love the Magic Wash as my go-to when I need a non-brown/black. custom colored wash, like blue, or white, on an otherwise all black painted figure (see below). I used a Magic Wash -- Blue, on my Anubis army figures, which started out all black; the blue paint in the recesses brings out the details in their sculpting. Magic Wash is an incredibly useful tool in my painting kit techniques.

My last bottle of Pledge Floor Shine is 10+ years old, and it is slowly drying out, thickening, inside the bottle. Not sure I can add water to it, to revive it. Now I don't have to experiment, I have found a replacement product -- inexpensive, and essentially the same thing! Cheers!