The invention provides personal care or hair liquid cleansing compositions comprising fatty acyl isethionate products having more than 5% by wt. free fatty acid/fatty soaps which are stabilized using specific mixture of long chain and short chain fatty acids/fatty soaps as well as by using proper ratio of total linear fatty acid/fatty soap to total synthetic surfactants (the total synthetic is the sum of (1) fatty acyl surfactant component of (a)&mdashthat is, the &ldquopure&rdquo fatty acyl isethionate which does not include free fatty acids and/or fatty acid soaps in the fatty acyl surfactant &ldquoproduct&rdquo&mdashand (2) the synthetic co-surfactant of (b)).
