Sugar soap soap made from terpene. The ingredients listed in the safety data sheet include >30% sodium carbonate. Sugar soap Sugar soap, as typically found in Commonwealth countries, is a cleaning material of variable composition sold for use on surfaces affected by greasy or tarry deposits which are not easily removed with routine domestic cleaning materials. Its name arises from the fact that, when in dry powder form, it resembles table sugar. The solution is alkaline and its uses include cleaning paintwork in preparation for repainting. The precise ingredients and their proportions (and consequentially what hazards, if any, are associated) vary between
Proper adjective Proper adjective In English orthography, the term proper adjective is sometimes applied to adjectives that take initial capital letters, and the term common adjective to those that do not. For example, a person from Boston is Bostonian. "Bostonian" is a proper adjective. These terms are used informally only; they are not used by grammarians or linguists. The term "proper noun" denotes a noun that, grammatically speaking, identifies a specific unique entity; for example, "England" is a proper noun, because it is a name for a specific country, whereas "dog" is not a proper noun; it is, rather, a "common noun"