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They are the same thing, just with differing names.
Soaps are detergents and detergents are soaps. The names have become associated with their different uses. Soaps are now primarily used to refer to soaps/detergents used on the body, while detergents have comes to mean soaps/detergents used for things other than cleansing the body, such as dish detergents.
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What types of products does Caldrea create?
Caldrea's products consist of home care solutions and body care formulas. Their products include dish soaps, body soaps, laundry detergents, and the like.
What kind of cleaning products have a base?
For example soaps and detergents.
What is the pH level of a laundry soap?
Laundry soap, like many other soaps and detergents, is basic, meaning that it has a pH over 7.
When doing laundry why is detergent better than soap?
Detergent is better for laundry than soap because it is specifically designed to clean fabrics in washing machines. Detergents contain surfactants that help lift dirt and stains from clothing more effectively than soaps, which can leave residue on clothing and may not rinse out completely in a machine. Additionally, detergents work well in both hard and soft water, whereas soap can leave a scum or film on clothes in hard water.
Can you use soaps and synthetic detergents to check the hardness of water?
Soaps get precipitated as insoluble calcium and magnesium soaps in hard water but detergents do not. Therefore, soaps but not synthetic detergents can be used to check the hardness of water.
What are soaps and detergents?
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What detergents are invert soaps?
soaps having a chiral nitrogen are invert soaps
What are the Problems of soaps and detergent industry?
look on wikipedia soaps and detergents
Advantage of soaps over synthetic detergents?
Soaps and detergents act differently in hard water and soft water respectively..over use of detergents causes water pollution wich can be avoided by using soaps...........wich causes much less pollution.
What is isocetyl myristate?
Isocetyl myristate is a skin conditioning agent. It is used in makeup, hair care products, and skin care products as well as in some detergents and soaps.
A melodramatic serial drama on television or radio is called a?
It's called a "soap opera", or nowadays, simply a "soap". That label comes from the days when their audiences consisted almost entirely of house-wives, who were of course responsible for the family laundry, and so the melodramatic serial dramas on radio were heavily sponsored by "washday products", i.e. laundry soaps and detergents.
What are the advantages of synthetic detergents over soap?
The advantages of synthetic detergents over soaps are :Synthetic detergents can be used even in case of hard water whereas soaps fail to do so. Unlike soaps, detergents do not form insoluble calcium and magnesium salts in hard water. They give lather in hard water also.Synthetic detergents can be used in the acidic medium while soaps fail to do so because of their hydrolysis to free acids.Synthetic detergents are soluble in water and hence form more lather than soaps.Synthetic detergents have a better cleansing action than soaps.Detergents do not cause irritation to the skin while soaps have this problem.
