Fabric softening laundry detergents with good stability

An aqueous laundry detergent composition in the form of a liquid or gel, having a pH of from about 6 to about 11 in a 1% water solution, said composition comprising:

• a) from about 5% to about 15%, by weight of the composition, of a non-soap anionic surfactant;
• b) from about 1% to about 15%, by weight of the composition, of soap;
• c) from about 0.5% to about 30%, by weight of the composition, of a nonionic surfactant;
• d) from 0.5% to about 5%, by weight of the composition, of a hydrotrope;
• e) from about 0.5% to about 5%, by weight of the composition, of a fabric softening cationic co surfactant selected from dodecyltrimethylammonium chloride;
• f) from about 0.05% to about 1%, by weight of the composition, of a fabric softening quaternized polymer having a molecular weight of at least 400,000;
• g) from about 0.05% to about 0.5%, by weight of the composition, of a non-quaternized, non polyamine thickener selected from hydroxypropylmethylcellulose, methylcellulose and mixtures thereof;
• and
• h) from 0.001% to about 0.5%, by weight of the composition, of perfume microcapsules;
• and wherein the ratio by weight of nonionic surfactant to anionic surfactant is greater than 1 and the total percentage, by weight of the composition, of the total of anionic surfactant, nonionic surfactant and soap is from 10% to 30%.