what is difference between soap qnd ditergent
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Soaps are sodium or potassium salts of long chain carboxylic acids.
Soaps have lesser cleansing action or quality as compared to detergents.
Soaps are made from animal or plant fats.
Soaps are more biodegradable.
Detergents :
Detergents are ammonium or solphonate salts of long chain carboxylic acids.
Detergents have better cleansing action as compared to soaps.
Detergents are made from petrochemicals. Detergents are less biodegradable.
(b) Hard water contains ions of calcium and magnesium which react with soap molecules to form insoluble precipitates called soap scum.
Soaps have lesser cleansing action or quality as compared to detergents.
Soaps are made from animal or plant fats.
Soaps are more biodegradable.
Detergents :
Detergents are ammonium or solphonate salts of long chain carboxylic acids.
Detergents have better cleansing action as compared to soaps.
Detergents are made from petrochemicals. Detergents are less biodegradable.
(b) Hard water contains ions of calcium and magnesium which react with soap molecules to form insoluble precipitates called soap scum.
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Soap is made from natural oils and fats and detergents normally are made from synthetic surfactants although there is an increasing number of detergents from natural derived ingredients
The fats and oils used in soapmaking come from animal or plant sources. Each fat or oil is made up of a distinctive mixture of several different triglycerides.
Saponification of fats and oils is the most widely used soapmaking process. This method involves heating fats and oils and reacting them with a liquid alkali to produce soap and water (neat soap) plus glycerine.
A detergent is an effective cleaning product because it contains one or more surfactants. Because of their chemical makeup, the surfactants used in detergents can be engineered to perform well under a variety of conditions. Such surfactants are less sensitive than soap to the hardness minerals in water and most will not form a film.
Detergent surfactants were developed in response to a shortage of animal and vegetable fats and oils during World War I and World War II. In addition, a substance that was resistant to hard water was needed to make cleaning more effective. At that time, petroleum was found to be a plentiful source for the manufacture of these surfactants. Today, detergent surfactants are made from a variety of petrochemicals (derived from petroleum) and/or oleochemicals (derived from fats and oils).
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