Abstract: A scrub-tool holder for steel wool comprising an elongated handle, a frame support means at one end of the handle and clamping means. The frame support means is adapted to support a steel wool pad having a slit through the center thereof and to extend through the slit in the pad so as to engage the edge walls of the slit, thereby leaving substantial overlying interior portions of the upper and lower reaches of the pad in contact with one another. The clamping means comprises rigid plate means adapted to engage the upper reach of the pad for holding the pad between the clamping means and frame support means and for urging the overlying interior portion of the upper reach of the pad against the contacting interior portion of the lower reach of the pad so as to provide added cushioning for the interior portion of such lower reach and to position the interior portion of the lower reach closer to the surface to be scrubbed.