Life Hack: Six clever ways to clean almost anything with sugar soap

From shining your shoes to riding your drivewy of oil, sugar soap is a useful product to keep in the cupboard

Sugar soap can be a very useful item to keep in your home. Traditionally used to prepare and clean surfaces ahead of painting, it has a myriad of uses beyond DIY. It can be bought easily in hardware stores and is a powerful cleaning agent. Despite the name, it’s unlikely you’ll find any sugar in the one you buy off the shelf. Instead, the name refers to the granular consistency of the soap – it simply looks like there’s sugar mixed into it.

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