A cleansing composition comprising the following components (A), (B), and (C): (A) from 1 to 20% by weight of a polyoxyethylene alkyl ether carboxylate in which the average addition mole number of the polyoxyethylene is 3.5 or less and the number of carbons in the alkyl group is from 10 to 18, (B) from 0.02 to 10% by weight of cationized hydroxypropyl cellulose represented by the following formula (1), wherein R 1 , R 2 and R 3 each independently represent a substituent group having a cationized ethyleneoxy group and a propyleneoxy group, n represents a number of from 20 to 5000 which is a number representing the average polymerization degree of anhydroglucose, and the substitution degree of the cationized ethyleneoxy group is from 0.01 to 3 and the substitution degree of the propyleneoxy group is from 0.01 to 5, and (C) water.
