Mild, foaming liquid cleansers comprising low levels of fatty isethionate product and low total fatty acid and/or fatty acid soap content

A personal liquid cleansing composition comprising:

• (a) 0.3 to less than 4% by wt. fatty acyl isethionate product comprising 40 to 80% fatty acyl isethionate and 15% to 50% free fatty acid and/or soap wherein greater than 20% of the fatty acyl isethionate are of chain length greater than or equal to C16 and greater than 50% of the free fatty acid/soap is of chain length greater than or equal to C16 to C24;
• (b) 3 to 15% by wt. of a co-surfactant selected from the soap consisting of anionic surfactant (excluding fatty acyl isethionate component of fatty acid isethionate product of (a)), amphoteric surfactant, nonionic surfactant, and mixtures thereof;
• (c) 0.1 to less than 4% C8 to C20 total linear free fatty acids/fatty soap (comprising both free fatty acids/fatty soaps of fatty acid product (a) as well as those added separately in composition), wherein total amount of linear C16 to C20 fatty acids is less than 2%, but is at least 0.1% by wt.