1. Cleaning, polishing, scouring and abrasive preparations, oven cleaners, furniture polish, shoe polish, waxes, household detergents

2. It is used as a minor (1–2%) ingredient in shoe polish and also in some inks and dyes.

3. Daily Chemicals Face cream, shampoo, detergent, hand sanitizer, skin gel, detergent, cosmetics, skin cream, toothpaste, hair dye, soap, shoe polish, glycerol, fatty alcohol , hair gel[Sentencedict.com ], ETC.

4. In the shoe polish market as a whole, some 26% of turnover is accounted for by pastes, 24% by creams, 23% by aerosols, and 13% by liquids.

5. The portrayal of Blackface–when people darken their skin with shoe polish, greasepaint or burnt cork and paint on enlarged lips and other exaggerated features, is steeped in centuries of racism.

6. Blackening someone's face with soot or shoe polish is a grave insult in India and The Raza Academy, that offered the reward, also organised a protest in which 100 hardline Muslims carried banners calling for the Indian-born author to be killed.