The present application relates to a process for preparing a personal care composition by combining a fatty amphiphile above its melt temperature and a surfactant in a weight ratio from 0.1:1 to 0.99:1 to form a gel network premix contacting the gel network premix with a shearing device cooling the gel network premix to a temperature below the melt temperature of the fatty amphiphile and adding the cooled premix to personal care components to form the personal care composition.