Facial cleansing compositions

A cleansing composition for removing make-up in the form of an oil-in-water emulsion comprising:

• a. from about 0.5% to about 10% of a surfactant with an HLB greater than about 10 selected from the group consisting of anionic, nonionic, zwitterionic, amphoteric and ampholytic surfactants and mixtures thereof;
• b. from about 2% to 30% of polyalphaolefin of the formula:
• R.sub.1 --C.dbd.C--R.sub.2
• wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are independently from about C.sub.20 to about C.sub.30 alkyl, wherein said polyalphaolefin has a viscosity of from about 2 to about 4 centistokes at 100.degree. C.;
• and
• c. from about 0.025% to about 0.75% of a carboxylic copolymer comprising polymers of a monomeric mixture containing 95.9 to 98.8 weight percent of an olefinically unsaturated carboxylic monomer selected from the group consisting of acrylic, methacrylic and ethacrylic acids, about 1 to about 3.5 weight percent of an acrylate ester of the formula:
• ##STR7## wherein R is an alkyl radical containing 10 to 30 carbon atoms and R.sub.1 is hydrogen, methyl or ethyl, and 0.1 to 0.6 weight percent of a polymerizable cross-linking polyalkenyl polyether of a polyhydric alcohol containing more than one alkenyl ether group per molecule wherein the parent polyhydric alcohol contains at least 3 carbon atoms and at least 3 hydroxyl groups.