Patent ID: 8506939

Claim:
A personal care composition comprising: a water-insoluble active ingredient, and a cationically modified hydroxyethyl cellulose, wherein the hydroxyethyl cellulose comprises from 1.5 to 2.5 moles of an hydroxyethyl substituent per mole of anhydroglucose repeat unit, and the hydroxyethyl cellulose is further substituted with a cationic substituent of the formula I wherein R 1 , R 2 and R 3 each independently are CH 3 or C 2 H 5 , R 4 is CH 2 —CHOH—CH 2 — or CH 2 CH 2 —, A z− is an anion, and z is 1, 2 or 3, and the hydroxyethyl cellulose comprises from 1.15 to 1.44 percent of cationic nitrogen, based on the total weight of the hydroxyethyl cellulose, and wherein the hydroxyethyl cellulose has 6,000 to 15,000 anhydroglucose repeat units and is not substituted with hydrophobic alkyl or arylalkyl group having 8 to 24 carbon atoms.