Wasch-Synthet
English translation: (synthetic) detergent/cleanser, wash/cleansing syndet (less common - in patents, for example)
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| 13:02 Mar 2, 2007 |
| German to English translations [PRO] Cosmetics, Beauty / cleansing items | |||||||
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|  Selected response from: MMUlr Germany Local time: 21:55 | ||||||
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| 4 | cleansing syndet |
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| 3 | wash syndet |
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| 3 | detergents |
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| 3 | cleansers |
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17 mins confidence: 
wash syndet Explanation: or syndet bar (if in form of a bar) (Google) I think Syndet is meant, not Synthet... (Wikipedia, pls see link) Reference: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syndet |
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22 mins confidence:
cleansing syndet Explanation: Here's a good explanation: http://www.answers.com/topic/detergent I chose this variant over wash syndet as - in a Google battle (http://www.googlebattle.com) - it receives more hits: 14,000 as opposed to 11,000. |
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10 mins confidence:
detergents Explanation: The German term is Wasch-Synets or Waschsyndets: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syndet English translation is syndets (or laundry syndets ... etc.). -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 11 mins (2007-03-02 13:14:45 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- sorry, Wasch-Syn*d*ets. Maybe for your translation also --> cleaning detergents http://catalogs.indiamart.com/products/cleaning-detergents.h... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 38 mins (2007-03-02 13:41:22 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Just talking about Google results - @Marcus, pls. allow this special exception to show the problems with Googlebattle! :-)) http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&as_qdr=all&q="wash syndets... http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&as_qdr=all&q="cleansing sy... http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&as_qdr=all&q="cleaning syn... These are searches in the whole WWW, no limits. IMO not such a convincing result. OK, syndets is a sort of acronym for "synthetical detergents", but you may also omit the synthetic IMO. I also compared both terms at the FDA homepage. Just go there and enter each term in the search box --> www.fda.gov -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 42 mins (2007-03-02 13:45:08 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- I have to add that searching for the singular forms (see searches above) gives you more documents, but not that many as with the term detergent. |
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20 hrs confidence:
cleansers Explanation: various different forms of soap, eg gels, lotions, bars. I asked my German friend who works in large store selling these items (similar to Boots, Superdrug etc in the UK) |
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