What is the composition of sugar soap?

Question

My chemistry class was doing Hydrophobic and Hydrophylic substances (as in soap molecules). Someone asked the teacher the above question and he had no idea of the answer. Does anyone know the composition?

Answer 1

Sugar soap is an industrial cleaning material, with a variable composition and supplied in either powdered or liquid form. The powdered form looks like granulated white sugar, which explains the first half of the name, although sugar soap contains neither sugar nor soap. It is a mixture of basic salts, such as sodium carbonate and sodium phosphate, dissolved in water to form an alkaline solution. It sometimes contains an abrasive such as sodium silicate.

Sugar soap is commonly used for cleaning paintwork in preparation for repainting.

The term appears to be used mainly in Commonwealth countries. In the United States, it refers to a cosmetic product.

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Answer 2

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I have personally used sugar soap for preparing walls when decorating and also cleaned up the patio furniture with it. Worked great for me. The info below should tell you everything you need to know anyway. Sugar soap is a generic name used to describe a popular chemical cleanser and paint priming solution, available in powder and liquid forms. Homemade versions are common, and are a popular alternative to commercial preparations. Uses 1. Sugar soap is used to clean and prepare walls for painting or wallpapering, and is very useful in cleaning nicotine stains, grease, pet odors, germs and bacteria, and sanitizing interior walls and floorboards. Geography 2. In the U.K., Australia, Canada and New Zealand, sugar soap describes a cleanser composed of sodium carbonate, sodium phosphate and at times sodium silicate as an abrasive, but homemade versions may differ in composition. In the United States, the comparable product is TSP, but because of environmental concerns about pollution of natural water systems, the tri-phosphate composition is not used. Home Preparations 3. One homemade version of sugar soap uses a combination of washing soda and yellow soap, and is used in the same manner as commercial sugar soaps. Misconceptions 4. The name "sugar soap" is often confused in the United States for skin care and beauty products, with ingredients used in sugar-glow skin treatments. Warning 5. Sugar soap should not be used on the skin, and precautions should be taken to keep the skin and eyes protected from contact with the chemicals.

Answer 3

Lard can be used in making soap. When soap was make by colonists and pioneers it was a matter of saving all your old cooking fat that was left from cooking meats. This stuff was saved an barrels for many months until enough was collected to mix it together with lye, which was made by letting water seep through ashes from the fireplace. If you have ever tried it, it takes a long time to save enough pan drippings from your cooking to accumulate any decent amout of fat. Lard is a fast and easy manufactured equivalent, but if you have a fireplace and cook on a stove you create all the raw materials to make your own soap using things that would normally just be thrown away. In colonial days this stuff was a valuable resource; today it is waste and thrown out with the trash.