Possible Clues:

• Cleansing starch is an unnamed variation
• Purification — is rash act (anag)
• Heretical sect is providing emotional relief
• Emotional release is beyond heretical group
• Accountants embrace his art, oddly, for relief of tensions
• Rash act is upsetting an emotional event
• Poorly archaists get purge
• Tom has set about computer user's affliction in purging process
• Release pet - one's being kept in is almost cruel
• Cleansing, hoovering up cat's hairs