cleansing agent

Questions about cleansing agent

What does cleansing agent mean?

cleansing agent means "a preparation used in cleaning something".

What is another word for cleansing agent?

Close synonyms include cleanser, cleaner. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cleansing agent a common word?

cleansing agent is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.