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Using very little soap while washing clothes, does not serve the purpose of cleaning of clothes, because:

Option: 1

soap particles remain floating in water as ions.


Option: 2

the hydrophobic part of soap is not able to take away grease.


Option: 3

the micelles are not formed due to concentration of soap, below its CMC value.


Option: 4

colloidal structure of soap in water is completely disturbed.


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Cleansing action of Soap is due to micelle formation. If the concentration of Soap is very little, the micelles will not be formed as there is a requirement of a minimum concentration of soap for micelle formation called as the critical micelle concentration(CMC).

Hence, the answer is Option (3)

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