I use detergents on my wooden guinea-pig hutches with no problems. I either use just dilute washing-up liquid or something like Ark-Klens, designed for cleaning animal cages, for regular cleans. I do leave them to dry out before putting back in woodshavings and beddings etc.
The wooden bits in my hamster cages (they have some log tunnels and flexible log rolls etc) don't get cleaned normally, they don't need it. If they did need it, like Candace said you could just scrub the dirt off with plain water if you were worried. Personally I'd be happy using something like Ark-Klens to clean wooden items but I would dry them out before putting them back - I'd do that just leaving them on the side, I'd feel a bit wary putting wooden items in the oven, but I guess that'd be a way.
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