Explain why soaps and detergents are considered to be degerming agents rather than antimicrobial agents?

Answer 1

Soaps and detergent do not kill microbes like disinfectants do. Soaps and detergents decrease water's surface tension so the microbes and other particles wash off better.

Answer 2

I don't know the term "degerming agent", but soaps and detergents tend to disrupt membranes, so they can indeed kill bacteria by rupturing their cell membranes...but they would also kill, say, cells in your respiratory tract if you inhaled a bunch of strong detergent (don't try this). I'm guessing that antimicrobial agents are more specific for killing microbes, i.e. they target particular features of bacteria that are different than mammalian cells and exploit those to kill the microbes without harming your own cells.

Answer 3

Due to their surface tension effect of suds, they remove germs from an artical rather than attack to destroy microbes.