ANTIMICROBIAL PERSONAL CLEANSING COMPOSITIONS

The invention provides an antimicrobial personal cleansing composition comprising: (i) an aqueous continuous phase including cleansing surfactant, (ii) a dispersed phase including dispersed particlesof one or more zinc-containing antimicrobial agents; and (iii) a solubilised oily liquid conditioning agent for skin and/or hair; in which the oily liquid conditioning agent is light mineral oil having a kinematic viscosity of 3 to 5 cS (mm .s) at 40 DEG C and is solubilised in wormlike micelles in the aqueous continuous phase via the incorporation of at least one inorganic electrolyte and at least one linker molecule which is selected from compounds of general formula R(X)n, in which R is an aryl ring having from 6 to 10 carbon atoms or a mono-, di- or trivalent alkyl or hydroxyalkyl chain having from 3 to 14 carbon atoms; n is 1 to 3 and each X is independently selected from -OH, -COOH and -COO-M groups, where M is an alkali metal, ammonium or alkanolammonium cation; and in which the level of solubilised