Question

different between soap and detergent

Answer 1

The Fundamental difference between soap and detergent is that soaps are producing from natural ingredients, which detergents are made by synthetic.

Answer 2

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Difference between Soaps and Detergent are :-

☢Soaps are the sodium salts of long chain carboxylic acid.

☢Detergents are sodium salts of long chain benzene sulphonic acids.

☢Soaps are not useful when the water is hard.

☢Detergents can be used for washing purpose even when water is hard.

☢The ionic group in soaps is

-COO-Na+

☢The ionic group in detergents is

SO3-Na+ or SO4-Na+

☢Soaps are biodegradable.

☢Some of the detergents are non- biodegradable.

☢Soaps have relatively weak cleansing action.

☢Detergents have strong cleansing action.

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