Soap
1. Soaps are sodium or potassium salt of long chain fatty acid.
2. Soaps are made from animal (or) plant fats and oils.
3. Soaps have lesser cleansing action.
4. Soaps are bio degradable.
5. Soaps are less effective in hard water.
6. They have a tendency to form a scum in hard water.
7. Example: Sodium palmitate.
Detergent
1. Detergent is sodium salt of alkyl hydrogen sulphate or alkyl benzene suiphonic acid.
2. Detergents are made from petrochemicals.
3. Detergents have more cleansing action.
4. Detergents are non – bio degradable.
5. Detergents are more effective even in hard water.
6. They do not form scum with hard water.
7. Example: Sodium lauryl sulphate.
