Patent ID: 8349301

Claim:
A shampoo composition comprising: a) from about 5% to about 50% of one or more anionic detersive surfactants, by weight of said shampoo composition; b) from about 5% to about 40% by weight of said shampoo composition of a preformed solid crystalline gel network phase consisting of: i) from about 0.05% to about 14% by weight of said shampoo composition of one or more fatty amides, fatty alkanolamides, and fatty alkoxylated amides selected from the group consisting of Cocamide, Cocamide Methyl MEA, Cocoyl Glutamic Acid, Erucamide, Lauramide, Oleamide, Palmitamide, Stearamide, Stearyl Erucamide, Behenamide DEA, Behenamide MEA, Cocamide DEA, Cocamide MEA, Cocamide MIPA, Hydroxyethyl Stearamide-MIPA, Hydroxypropyl Bisisostearamide MEA, Hydroxypropyl Bislauramide MEA, Hydroxystearamide MEA, Isostearamide DEA, Isostearamide MEA, Isostearamide MIPA, Lauramide DEA, Lauramide MEA, Lauramide MIPA, Myristamide DEA, Myristamide MEA, Myristamide MIPA, Palmamide DEA, Palmamide MEA, Palmamide MIPA, Palmitamide DEA, Palmitamide MEA, PEG-20 Cocamide MEA, Stearamide AMP, Stearamide DEA, Stearamide DEA-Distearate, Stearamide DIBA-Stearate, Stearamide MEA, Stearamide MEA-Stearate, Stearamide MIPA, PEG-2 Cocamide, PEG-3 Cocamide, PEG-4 Cocamide, PEG-5 Cocamide, PEG-6 Cocamide, PEG-7 Cocamide, PEG-3 Lauramide, PEG-5 Lauramide, PEG-3 Oleamide, PEG-9 Oleamide, PEG-4 Stearamide, PEG-10 Stearamide, PPG-2 Cocamide, PPG-2 Hydroxyethyl Cocamide, PPG-2 Hydroxyethyl Coco/Isostearamide, Ceramide 1, Ceramide 2, Ceramide 3, Ceramide 4, Ceramide 5, and mixtures thereof; ii) from about 0.3 to about 5% by weight of said shampoo composition of one or more cationic surfactants selected from the group consisting of cetrimonium chloride, stearimonium chloride, behentrimonium chloride, behentrimonium methosulfate, behenamidopropyltrimonium methosulfate, stearamidopropyltrimonium chloride, arachidtrimonium chloride, distearyldimonium chloride, iii) water; wherein said one or more fatty amides, fatty alkanolamides, and fatty alkoxylated amides selected from group (i) are present relative to said cationic surfactant at a weight ratio of from about 2:1 to about 10:1, c) from about 20% to about 95% of an aqueous carrier, by weight of said shampoo composition.