Patent ID: 8470305

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 pre-formed solid crystalline gel network phase consisting of: i) a fatty acid or alkoxylated fatty acid having a structure of wherein R1 is C10-40 and R 2 is a C 1 -C 5 carbon chain which can be branched or hydroxy substituted; and k is a number ranging from 0 to 5; ii) from about 0.05% to about 14% of one or more fatty amphiphiles by weight of said shampoo composition, wherein said fatty amphiphile is a fatty alcohol comprising a hydrophobic tail group selected from an alkyl group of C 12 -C 70 length; iii) water; and wherein the weight ratio of said fatty acid or said alkoxylated fatty acid to said fatty alcohol is from about 10:1 to about 1:5 to form said pre-formed solid crystalline gel network phase; and c) from about 20% to about 95% of an aqueous carrier, by weight of said shampoo composition.