Improved facial cleansing compositions

Claim 1

A cleansing composition for removing make-up and the like in the form of an oil-in-water emulsion comprising: a. from about 0.5% to about 10% of a surfactant with an HLB greater than about 10 selected from the group consisting of anionic, nonionic, zwitterionic, amphoteric and ampholytic surfactants and mixtures thereof; b. from about 2% to 30% of polyalphaolefin of the formula: R₁-C=C-R₂ wherein R₁ and R₂ are independently from about C₂₀ to about C₃₀ alkyl, wherein said polyalphaolefin has a viscosity of from about 2 to about 4 centistokes at 100°C; and c. from about 0.025% to about 0.75% of a carboxylic copolymer comprising polymers of a monomeric mixture containing 95.9 to 98.8 weight percent of an olefinically unsaturated carboxylic monomer selected from the group consisting of acrylic, methacrylic and ethacrylic acids, about 1 to about 3.5 weight percent of an acrylate ester of the formula: wherein R is an alkyl radical containing 10 to 30 carbon atoms and R₁ is hydrogen, methyl or ethyl, and 0.1 to 0.6 weight percent of a polymerizable cross-linking polyalkenyl polyether of a polyhydric alcohol containing more than one alkenyl ether group per molecule wherein the parent polyhy­dric alcohol contains at least 3 carbon atoms and at least 3 hydroxyl groups.