A conditioning cleansing composition comprising at least one detersive surfactant, a silicone conditioning agent and a crosslinked acrylic copolymer stabilizer/thickener that mitigates the loss silicone deposition on keratinous substrates is disclosed. The crosslinked acrylic copolymer is prepared by polymerizing a monomer composition comprising: a) from about 5 to about 50 wt. % of carboxyethyl acrylate and/or oligomers thereof b) from about 30 to about 95 wt. % of a monomer selected from ethyl acrylate, vinyl acetate, or mixtures thereof c) from about 0 to about 50 wt. % of (meth)acrylic acid and d) from about 0.001 to about 5 wt. % of a polyunsaturated crosslinking monomer containing at least two polymerizable ethylenically unsaturated moieties.
