differentiate between soaps and detergents

Following are the difference between Soap and detergents:

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soaps are long sodium and potassium salt chains whereas the detergents are artificial cleaners made up by long hydrocarbon chains 

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Soap is sodium or potassium salts of fatty acids, and these days is usually used only for cleaning human skin, but in the past was used for many other cleaning purposes.

Detergent is a substance used for cleaning, so soap is a type of detergent. Detergents are often surfactants (as is soap), which help to dissolve oils in water, useful in cleaning dirty dishes or greasy skin.

Both detergent and soap can be harmful to skin (but are not always), and neither form kill or remove 100% of bacteria.

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Soaps are long chains of sodium and potassium fatty acids. it has many disadvantages as it cannot be used in hard water as it reacts with the Ca and Mg salts in the hard water to form insoluble substance known as scum. it is made up od the animal fat and hence, creates a shortage of animal fat. on the other hand it is biodegradable and hence does not cause pollution.

detergents are ammonium and sulphonate salts of long chain carboxylic acid. detergents can be used in hard water as it does react with Ca and Mg salts to form Scum. Detergents are made up of petroleum products and hence, decreases the shortage of animal fat. but detergents are non-biodegradable and hence cause pollution.

 

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