How do we clean ourselves our clothes etc., it is with soap and detergents. Hence they are used in our everyday life. What we use for our bath we call soap and what we wash clothes, floors, dishes we call as detergents. Soap is in the form of cake or bar and detergents are in the form of grains of granules, liquid, bar. Detergents have certain advantages what soap doesn’t have. Like detergents have the ability to clean in all kinds of water. Soaps react with minerals in hard water form a substsance and don’t dissolve. Detergents do not leave deposits. We have to be hygienic and to avoid body ;odours and be fresh have a bath twice or thrice a day and this is with soap. They have chemical which destroy the germs which cause disease. Soap is used to polish jewelry, and to soften leather shoes and handbags. They shampoo their hair too with soap. In soap making the main ingredients are fats and alkalis. The fats are coconut oil or vegetable oil and the alkali is caustic soda. These days we get medicated soap where they use neem oil and soaps that contain glycerine which suits lots of skin types. Having a bath keeps us fresh
