Question

define soap and detergent

Answer 1

A detergent is a chemical compound or mixture of compounds used as a cleaning agent. A soap is a cleaning agent that is composed of one or more salts of fatty acids. Thus, by its broad definition, detergent is an umbrella term that includes soaps and other cleaning agents with various chemical compositions.

Answer 2

Soap: soap is the sodium or potassium salt of a long of carbon acid which gives the cleaning property in water.

Detergent :detergent is known as soap. Because they act like a soap but it does not contain the usual soap like sodium salt and potassium salt