what are the difference between a detergent and a soap?
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I'm sure you mean, "What is the difference between a detergent and a soap?"\n\nA detergent is a general term that can mean any non-water solvent that one uses to clean. A soap is technically a specific kind of chemical compound that is usually the potassium or sodium salt of a fatty acid (can be an organic derivative, or can be synthesized). \n\nSoaps are kinds of detergents, but not all detergents are soaps.
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A soap or detergent is made up of molecules that contain both a charged part, and a large uncharged part.  The non-charged part attaches to things like grease, which are non-polar, while the charged part is soluble in water, which is polar.  When it does this, it carries the non-polar molecules into solution with it.
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in terms of concentration a base is worse than acid.  eg a 2M HCl solution will bearly nip heathly skin on contact, 2M sodium hydroxide will start turning your skin into soap within a matter of seconds.
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Soap is a surfactant cleaning compound used for personal or minor cleaning. It usually comes in solid moulded form, termed bars. In somewhat recent years, the use of thick liquid soap has become increasingly widespread, especially from dispensers in public washrooms. Soap is used in conjunction with water for washing and cleaning. The wet soap residue and the dirt or soil are rinsed off with clean water afterwards. In the developed world, synthetic detergents have superseded soap as a laundry aid.\n\nMany soaps are mixtures of sodium or potassium salts of fatty acids which can be derived from oils or fats by reacting them with an alkali (such as sodium or potassium hydroxide) at 80°–100 °C in a process known as saponification. The fats are hydrolyzed by the base, yielding glycerol and crude soap. Historically, the alkali used was potash made from the deliberate burning of vegetation such as bracken, or from wood ashes.\n\nSoap is derived from either oils or fats. Sodium Tallowate, a common ingredient in many soaps, is in fact derived from rendered animal fat. Soap that is made of vegetable oils, such as olive oil, are generally termed castile soap.
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Actually it is the soap in combination with the warm water with the friction that makes you clean.  At least that is what they taught me at work in our little class on how to wash your hands.
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A lotion is just what bacteria like. Any soap is antimicrobial. Clean dry skin is anti microbial.
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baby oil\nrubbing alcohol\nsoap\nlaundry detergent...
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Soap can be made from so many different oils, each one affecting the overall quality.\n\nBasically oils (hard and soft) are carefully weighed and melted together.  Meanwhile lye is added to water, which will cause it to go to almost boiling temperatures.  The amount of lye varies with the type of oils, each oil having a 'saponification factor' - the amount of lye needed to turn that oil into soap.  Good soap is lye shorted to create a superfatted bar (5-7%) to give it emolience.\n\nBoth lye and oils are cooled to about 100F.  The lye water is slowly added to the oils while stirring.  Modern soapmakers make use of a hand held blender (stick blender).  Depending on the method used "trace" will soon occur (5 minutes for stick blender / hours for hand mixing).  Scents, herbs are added.\n\nAt this point the mixture is now liquid, raw soap with the chemical reaction having taken place, and is poured into molds.  These molds are covered, insulated and left approximately 24 hours.  During this time the "gel" phase occurs whereupon the soap heats up and processes.\n\nAfter unmolding the soap is cut.  It's then left to cure about 6 weeks to give a luxurious bar loaded with natural glycerin.
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detergents are long Hydrocarbon chains with a polar head on one end.  These long chains (the polar heads) are attracted to the polar side of the fatty acids that make up stains.  The dirt will bond to the detergent instead of the clothes and is washed away in the water.
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Most hand sanitizers use alcohol as a sterilant, so unless there's something in them to make them more alkaline, the pH should be pretty close to neutral -- 7.  That would mean that soaps have the higher pH.
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You could have eczema or possibly an allergy from foods, the type of laundry detergent you use, or maybe certain soaps and lotions.
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If by suds you mean bubbles, then you aught to consider that suds/bubbles are not important when washing dishes. All that really matters is that you use enough of the liquid detergent to be effective - and you might be surprised to find by experimenting how little you need.\nBrands differ in the concentration of the detergent (cheaper brands are usually more dilute). The more concentrated liquids need only a FEW DROPS to be effective (unless the dishes are very greasy when you'll need a few drops more).\nA detergent works by allowing fat/grease/oil to break up into tiny droplets and mix with water. Without detergent the fat would form a layer on the surface and everything you pulled out through it would be covered in fat.\nWithout lots of annoying suds you can see what you are doing!
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They are chemical cousins but not identical  Baking soda is sodium acid carbonate, NaHCO3, while washing soda is sodium carbonate, Na2CO3.  Whether you can get away with the substitution depends on the nature of the project.
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Detergents are a certain type of cleaner. By including Enzymatic, I interpert it to mean that enzymes are used as a basis for the cleaning process to digest the particular contaminant.
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can u invent a detergent?? if you can try to use thinks that you have heard to take out stains, like: milk, lemon, calcium also gets rid of stains (try crushing some TUMS theyve got calcium in it), make a mixture with these things then stain pices of white cloths with ketchup or something like that then wahs them with your new detergent and compare it with the regular detergent u got in ur house.\nif u need more help u can contact me.
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Soap is the sodium - Na - salt of a fatty acid, that is a salt obtained when a high carboxylic acid like palmitic acid etc. reacts with NaOH(caustic soda)&#92; or sodium hydroxide)\n\nIts chemical formula in its general form is R-COO-Na\nwhere R is an alkyl group of the form C(n)H(2n+1)-\n\nfor eg.- C(17)-H(33)-COO-Na\n\nwhere the H atom of the acid is replaced by the Na atom in a process called Saponification or salting of soap
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Sounds like you are talking about an anionic surfacant(a substance that allows things to get wet) There is a very popular material that does this it is called soap.