Are surfactants added to water for cleaning clothes to:?

enable the water to soak the clothes better or enable the water to interact with the soap better?

Answer:
surfactants are added to break surface tension of water
this allows water to wet clothes better
Actually the soap used is a surfactant. Surfactants are characterized as having a polar head group and a lipophilic tail.

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