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If you’ve ever painted your nails at home, you’ll know how messy nail polish can be, even if you have steady hands. Not only can it make a mess of your fingers if you slip while applying it, but if you happen to knock the bottle over accidentally, it can spell disaster for your table or your floor.
The product is quick to dry and can be once it’s hardened, especially if you spill it on a wooden surface. Products like nail varnish remover can lift the product from unwanted parts of your skin, but you don’t usually want to use them on wooden tables or floors as they can strip the protective wood varnish too.
So if you’ve made a mistake with your nail polish and you’re looking for a way to clean it up – you’ve come to the right place.
One fan has gone after sharing a video in which she reveals you can use a common cooking ingredient to clean up nail polish mess in no time at all.
Mum and user Jenny claimed in her video that you can actually use sugar to clean up nail polish spills.
In her video, the woman demonstrated the hack on some bright pink polish that she had spilt on her laminate wooden flooring. She poured granulated white sugar over the stain until it was completely covered and then began moving the sugar around the stain with her fingers.
She patted the sugar down and pushed it into the nail polish until the polish began to mix with the sugar and create solid lumps that could easily be moved around the floor. Then all she needed to do was clean up the sugar with a dustpan and brush, and her floor looked as good as new.
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The sugar Jenny used in her video is the same product most of us have at home already for adding to teas and coffee.
The trick blew away commenters on the video, although some did joke that they wouldn’t want to “waste sugar” on cleaning up a mess when they could use it for a sweet treat instead.
One person said: ” That is amazing. I broke a bottle in a hotel room! Awful mess! Thanks for sharing.”
As another added: “Used to work at a store that sold tons of OPI and people dropped and broke them regularly. This hack is a life saver!”