A process of preparing a personal care composition comprising at least an oil phase, the process comprising: a) reacting (i) an oxirane-functionalized ionic silicone compound, (ii) an oxirane ring-opening polymerization catalyst, (iii) a carrier solvent; and (iv), optionally, one or more silicon hydride activators to obtain an ionically-modified cross-linked silicone network by the ring-opening polymerization of oxirane moiety with hydride; b) shearing the ionically-modified cross-linked silicone network of step a) during and/or after polymerization of step a) with at least an carrier solvent to form an ionically-modified cross-linked silicone network gel; and c) adding the ionically-modified cross-linked silicone network gel of step b) to an oil phase of a personal care composition, wherein at least (i), (iii) or (iv) comprises the ionically modified silicone of general formula (I): M 1 a M 2 b M 3 c D 1 d D 2 e D 3 f T 1 g T 2 h T 3 i Q j (I) wherein: M 1 = R 1 R 2 R 3 SiO 1/2 M 2 = R 4 R 5 R 6 SiO 1/2 M 3 = R 7 R 8 R 9 SiO 1/2 D 1 = R 10 R 11 SiO 2/2 D 2 = R 12 R 13 SiO 2/2 D 3 = R 14 R 15 SiO 2/2 T 1 = R 16 SiO 3/2 T 2 = R 17 SiO 3/2 T 3 = R 18 SiO 3/2 Q = SiO 4/2 where R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , R 5 , R 6 , R 8 , R 9 , R 10 , R 11 , R 13 , R 15 , R 16 are aliphatic, aromatic or fluoro containing monovalent hydrocarbon radicals containing from 1 to 60 carbon atoms; where R 4 , R 12 , R 17 are monovalent or multivalent radical bearing ionic group(s); where R 7 , R 14 and R 18 are independently selected from hydrogen, -OR 20 or hydrosilylation effective unsaturated monovalent radicals, wherein R 20 is selected from hydrogen, monovalent hydrocarbon radicals of from 1 to 60 carbon atoms; where the subscript a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j are zero or positive subject to the following limitations: the sum a+b+c+d+e+f+g+h+i+j is greater than or equal to 2 and less than or equal to 6000, b+e+h is greater than 0; subject to the limitation that (iv) is present if neither of (i) and (iii) comprises hydride moiety. a) reacting (i) an oxirane-functionalized ionic silicone compound, (ii) an oxirane ring-opening polymerization catalyst, (iii) a carrier solvent; and (iv), optionally, one or more silicon hydride activators to obtain an ionically-modified cross-linked silicone network by the ring-opening polymerization of oxirane moiety with hydride; b) shearing the ionically-modified cross-linked silicone network of step a) during and/or after polymerization of step a) with at least an carrier solvent to form an ionically-modified cross-linked silicone network gel; and c) adding the ionically-modified cross-linked silicone network gel of step b) to an oil phase of a personal care composition, M 1 = R 1 R 2 R 3 SiO 1/2 M 2 = R 4 R 5 R 6 SiO 1/2 M 3 = R 7 R 8 R 9 SiO 1/2 D 1 = R 10 R 11 SiO 2/2 D 2 = R 12 R 13 SiO 2/2 D 3 = R 14 R 15 SiO 2/2 T 1 = R 16 SiO 3/2 T 2 = R 17 SiO 3/2 T 3 = R 18 SiO 3/2 Q = SiO 4/2 where R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , R 5 , R 6 , R 8 , R 9 , R 10 , R 11 , R 13 , R 15 , R 16 are aliphatic, aromatic or fluoro containing monovalent hydrocarbon radicals containing from 1 to 60 carbon atoms; where R 4 , R 12 , R 17 are monovalent or multivalent radical bearing ionic group(s); where R 7 , R 14 and R 18 are independently selected from hydrogen, -OR 20 or hydrosilylation effective unsaturated monovalent radicals, wherein R 20 is selected from hydrogen, monovalent hydrocarbon radicals of from 1 to 60 carbon atoms; where the subscript a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j are zero or positive subject to the following limitations: the sum a+b+c+d+e+f+g+h+i+j is greater than or equal to 2 and less than or equal to 6000, b+e+h is greater than 0; subject to the limitation that (iv) is present if neither of (i) and (iii) comprises hydride moiety. <EOS>