Sweetners || Cleaning Agents || Types od Soaps || Detergents

Soap And Detergents|VIP

VIP|Soap And Detergents

Drugs || Chemical used in Food || Soaps and Detergents

Antifertility Drugs |Chemicals In Food |Artificial Sweetening Agents |Food Preservatives |Antioxidants In Food |Soaps |Synthetic Detergents |Summary

Why detergents are better cleansing agents than soaps ? Explain.

Soap the detergents are used as cleansing agents . Soaps are sodium or potassium salts of higher fatty acids which contain more than 12 carbon atoms . Detergents are sodium salts of alkyl hydrogen sulphates or alkyl benzene sulphonic acids . Ther detergenta may be anionic , cationic cationic , or non - ionic detergents depending upon the anion , cation or non - ionic detergent depending upon the anion , cation or hydrogen bonding group at the soluble end of the chain . Soaps and detergents form emulsified oil droplets with only or greasy part of teh cloth and these oil droplets are then washed aways by stream of wate r. Why are synthetic detergents called soapless soaps ?