Mild antibacterial liquid dish cleaning compositions having improved stability

A mild antibacterial liquid dish cleaning composition which comprises approximately by weight:

• (a) 1% to 9% of a sodium salt of a C8-C16 linear alkyl benzene sulfonate surfactant;
• (b) 4% to 16% of a magnesium salt of a C8-C16 linear alkyl benzene sulfonate surfactant;
• (c) 4% to 16% of an ammonium or sodium salt of an ethoxylated C8-C18 alkyl ether sulfate surfactant;
• (d) 0.1% to 5% of a zwitterionic surfactant;
• (e) 0.5% to 5% of a hydroxy containing organic acid;
• (f) 5% to 15% of an alkyl polyglucoside surfactant;
• (g) 0.1% to 10% of at least one solubilizer;
• (h) 0.005% to 3.0% of a preservative;
• and
• (i) the balance being color, perfume, UV absorber and water, wherein the composition has a pH of 3 to 4 and has a viscosity of 100 to 1,000 cps at 25° C. using a #21 spindle at 20 rpm as measured on a Brookfield RVTDV-II viscometer, wherein the composition does not contain any choline chloride ammonium or alkaline earth carbonate, amine oxide surfactants, guanidine derivates, alkoxylalkyl amines and alkyleneamines C3-C7 alkyl and alkenyl monobasic and dibasic acids such as C4-C7 aliphatic carboxylic diacids which do not contain a hydroxy group, boric acid, phosphoric acid, ethoxylated nonionic surfactants, and amino alkylene phosphonic acid and the composition is pourable and not a gel has a complex viscosity at 1 rads−1 of less than 0.4 Pascal seconds.