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 stabilised 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) - that is, the "pure" fatty acyl isethionate which does not include free fatty acids and/or fatty acid soaps in the fatty acyl surfactant "product" - and (2) the synthetic co-surfactant of (b)).
