A clear skin cleansing composition comprising: a. water; b. a potassium acrylates copolymer, having a number average molecular weight of 100,000 or less, in an amount comprising from 0.03 weight percent to 1.6 weight percent of the skin cleansing composition; c. at least two different amphoteric surfactants selected from the group consisting of: an ampholytic synthetic surfactant comprising a derivative of an aliphatic amine having from 8 to 18 carbon atoms and an anionic water-solubilizing group and zwitterionic surfactants comprising internally neutralized derivatives of aliphatic quaternary ammonium, phosphonium and tertiary sulfonium compounds, in which the aliphatic radical is straight chain or branched and wherein one of the aliphatic substituents has from 8 to 18 carbon atoms and one contains an anionic water- solubilizing group; wherein one of such amphoteric surfactants comprises coco-betaine in a concentration of less than 0.065 weight percent or greater than 3.5 weight percent; said remaining surfactants being present in a concentration of between 0.0015 to 15 weight percent of the skin cleansing composition and the total surfactant load of such composition is less than 20 weight percent; wherein said skin cleansing composition has a pH of between 4 and 6 and is substantially free of anionic surfactant, said skin cleansing composition having an absorbance of less than 0.2 as determined by the following Clarity Absorbance Test: solutions were created in 96-well plates using a serial dilution method with a Hamilton Microlab Starlet high throughput liquid handler, the well plate with the 96 different solutions was then transferred to the Molecular Devices Spectra Max 340 PC spectrophotometer and any bubbles removed to avoid possibly interfering with the measurements, then the absorbance at a wavelength of 410nm was measured for each solution within 5 minutes of completion of each plate; and wherein said amphoteric surfactants are chosen from the group consisting of sodium lauroamphoacetate, cocamidopropyl betaine, cocamidopropyl hydroxysultaine and coco-betaine. a. water; b. a potassium acrylates copolymer, having a number average molecular weight of 100,000 or less, in an amount comprising from 0.03 weight percent to 1.6 weight percent of the skin cleansing composition; c. at least two different amphoteric surfactants selected from the group consisting of: an ampholytic synthetic surfactant comprising a derivative of an aliphatic amine having from 8 to 18 carbon atoms and an anionic water-solubilizing group and zwitterionic surfactants comprising internally neutralized derivatives of aliphatic quaternary ammonium, phosphonium and tertiary sulfonium compounds, in which the aliphatic radical is straight chain or branched and wherein one of the aliphatic substituents has from 8 to 18 carbon atoms and one contains an anionic water- solubilizing group; wherein one of such amphoteric surfactants comprises coco-betaine in a concentration of less than 0.065 weight percent or greater than 3.5 weight percent; said remaining surfactants being present in a concentration of between 0.0015 to 15 weight percent of the skin cleansing composition and the total surfactant load of such composition is less than 20 weight percent; solutions were created in 96-well plates using a serial dilution method with a Hamilton Microlab Starlet high throughput liquid handler, the well plate with the 96 different solutions was then transferred to the Molecular Devices Spectra Max 340 PC spectrophotometer and any bubbles removed to avoid possibly interfering with the measurements, then the absorbance at a wavelength of 410nm was measured for each solution within 5 minutes of completion of each plate; and wherein said amphoteric surfactants are chosen from the group consisting of sodium lauroamphoacetate, cocamidopropyl betaine, cocamidopropyl hydroxysultaine and coco-betaine.