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How do all-purpose cleaners work?

I have a bottle here that lists several ingredients including: decyl glucoside, sodium citrate, glycerin, and a lot of natural oils. How do these ingredients actually clean a surface?
gpt
Molecular magnets!

Some things have an electrostatic charge, some do not.

Charged things like to mix with charged things.

Uncharged things like to mix with uncharged things.

Water is charged, so it can dissolve and wash away material that is also charged.

The problem is with uncharged things, since water can't wash them away.

Oils are uncharged, which is why you can't wash away grease with a little water.

Cleaners contain molecules that are long and have a charged end and an uncharged end.

The uncharged end mixes into the oil, while the charged end allows the water to pick it up and wash the cleaner/oil mixture away.