Patent ID: 8652450

Claim:
A liquid soap composition comprising: (a) 25-50% by weight of a fatty acid blend consisting essentially of C 12 -C 18 fatty acids; (b) wherein degrees of neutralization of fatty acid blend is between 70% and 90%; (c) 10-40% by weight of a co-solvent system; (d) less than about 18% by weight water; (e) 3 to 20% by weight emollient or occlusive oil; (f) 0.01 to 15% by wt. skin appearance and/or optical enhancing agent; and (g) wherein (e) and (f) are modified by treatment with multivalent soap and/or hydrophobic agent selected from the group consisting of hydrophobically modified cationic polymer, hydrophobically modified non-ionic polymer and mixtures thereof; wherein ratio of co-solvent (c) to water (d) is from 0.56 to 10 wherein said cosolvent system comprises (i) dipropylene glycol, and (ii) glycerol; wherein said dipropylene glycol comprises >30% of the cosolvent system.