There is provided a cleansing composition which has creamy foaming and excellent cleansing power, provides no stretched feeling of skin after rinsing and a refreshed feeling of skin, is excellent in storage stability and exhibits no reduction in physical properties, formation of precipitates and yellowing during a long-term storage period by combining N-acyl-aspartic acid or a salt thereof and N-acyl-diaspartic acid or a salt thereof, which have the same molecular structure of the N-acyl group, with a higher fatty acid or a salt thereof which has the same alkyl group as that of the above described N-acyl residue.
