cleaner vs detergent

cleaner

noun
  • A substance used for cleaning, a cleaning agent. 

  • A professional laundry or dry cleaner (business). (This form is now interpreted as plural and usually spelled without an apostrophe, even in official usage, to justify the removal of the apostrophe. It was traditionally spelled cleaner's with an apostrophe because this is grammatically correct, as can be seen with forms such as go to the doctor's, which cannot be reinterpreted as plural.) 

  • A person whose occupation is to clean floors, windows and other things. 

  • A device that cleans, such as the vacuum cleaner. 

detergent

noun
  • Any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant. 

adj
  • Synonym of cleansing. 

How often have the words cleaner and detergent occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )