Cleansing action of soap occurs because ........

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Cleansing action of soap occurs because

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Oil and grease can be absorbed into the hydrophobic centres of soap micelles and washed away.

Oil and grease can be absorbed into hydrophilic centres of soap micelles and washed away

Oil and grease can be absorbed into both hydrophilic and hydrophobic centres but not washed away.

Cleansing action is not related to micelles.

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Explanation:

When the clusters of molecules are formed then hydrophobic tail comes at the interior of the cluster and the ionic end comes at the surface of the cluster and this formation is called micelle. When the soap is in the form of micelles then it has the ability to clean the oily dirt which gets accumulated at the centre.