Personal cleansing composition

A personal cleansing composition having an aqueous continuous phase including cleansing surfactant and a solubilised hydrocarbon oil;

• the hydrocarbon oil being selected from saturated, non-polar straight or branched-chain aliphatic or alicyclic hydrocarbons having from about 10 to about 50 carbon atoms, and mixtures thereof;
• and the hydrocarbon oil having a kinematic viscosity of 1 to 35 cS (mm2·s−1) at 40° C. and a specific gravity of 0.76 to 0.87 at 25° C.;
• in which the hydrocarbon oil is solubilised in micelles in the aqueous continuous phase via the incorporation of at least one inorganic electrolyte and at least one linker molecule which is selected from compounds of general formula (I):
• R(X)n (I)
• in which R is an aromatic hydrocarbyl ring having from 6 to 10 carbon atoms or a mono-, di- or trivalent saturated aliphatic hydrocarbyl chain having from 3 to 14 carbon atoms;
• n is 1 to 3 and each X is independently selected from —OH and —COOH;
• and in which the level of hydrocarbon oil in the composition ranges from 0.9 to 1.1% by weight based on the total weight of the composition;
• and in which the composition also includes emulsified droplets of silicone having a mean droplet diameter (D3,2) of 0.25 micrometre or less, in an amount ranging from 0.2 to 8% by total weight silicone based on the total weight of the composition.