Hi There,
Is anyone aware if Sugar Soap is sold in Switzerland.
I tried to find it in Jumbo, but no luck. Could you also let me know what it is called in French or German - no luck with literal translation when I asked the storeperson.
Thanks again for your help
Hi,
it is called Laugenpulver in German and Lessive décapante in French. The make is called Rico. Jumbo should sell it. Make sure that you wash it off very well.
Misterbrush
I have been decorating this last week and used this - it is wonderful and makes such a difference!!
Thanks Misterbrush - greatly appreciated
Thanks for this, been looking for sugar soap without luck. Will locate Jumbo store and get some as it is a cleaning product par excellence
Comes in powder form BTW as opposed to the liquid form back home.
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Misterbrush
thanks to you both, just what I am looking for, bit of shame when post so old, one can not thank. Hope all is well with you both.
Sorry to ask guys, but what is Sugar Soap?
it's a cleaning product to get grease and grime off paintwork before repainting.
Just cleaned all the upstairs corridor with it. In French it's called 'lessive de St Marc'.
Is also really useful for helping get gummed backing paper off a wall before painting. Our French house was almost completely decorated with 70s style hessian wallpaper, on top of a backing paper that seemed to have been stuck wroth some sort of rubberised glue. Using a 'lessive' was the only way to remove it without much hacking and scraping, followed by much repeatedly.
I'm in search of something to get grimy fingerprint stains off walls: I'm sure my kids will add their own but I'd prefer them to start with a clean slate!
Would this stuff be safe to use with babies in the house (I'd put them into a playpen or another room so they couldn't touch any soap) or better not?
Got the packet in front of me and it says to keep out of reach of children, that it can cause allergic reactions in a few, and can irritate eyes if some contact with eyes is made. Different concentration used for different purposes. Very cheap and contains pitch (résine de pin) strangely enough. No idea what it is in German. so should be fine if little ones are in the playpen until it is dry.
From memory, the main risk of sugar soap is that it is a mild alkali, so will 'irritate' the skin if you use a lot of it or touch the powder, or get it in your eyes or mouth, You can wash the walls down with a decent a amount of clean warm water to remove the residue, and make sure it's well-ventilated to avoid fumes. I would't do it with small babies around, but no problem once it's clean and dry... You can also choose to dilute it more so it's less potent... I don't think it's particularly toxic after it's been rinsed off...
How do people keep their wooden floors dry if they are using sugar-soap and rinsing it off?
Any tips?
I'd probably just put lots of cloths or old sheets at the bottom of the walls to soak up the water.
I'd try with rubbing alcohol ( brenspirit I think it's called in German) first before resorting to sugar soap. Try a little patch in an out if the way place first though. I just soaked some cotton wool in it and cleaned all the affected areas.
It's what I used to get all the marks and muck off the walls in the house we rented and it worked brilliantly.
If the walls are white, those white sponges (fleckenradierer) work pretty well.
(You wet them and rub them on the marks)
This one? You can get it from Migros. There's another brand in Jumbo for 8 bucks. I've tried it and it really works. Also good to use when moving out of an apartment.
Some of the walls and doors I need to clean are white, others are pale blue, pale yellow, etc.
And I've seen those sponge thingies all over the place, thought they were just a different kind of sponge though so I never bothered. I've got one now, will try it on the white walls first, then maybe behind a door or something on one of the nonwhite walls.
If that doesn't work, I think we do have a bottle of Brennsprit somewhere around here. Silly literal-minded creature that I am, it would never have occurred to me to use it for anything but brenn -ing.
very grateful to have found this thread and a local name for my beloved Sugar Soap - I used tons of this back home and it really makes a difference for a spring clean. Obi here we come!