Abstract: A very stable mild soap personal cleansing and moisturizing composition comprising: C.sub.8 -C.sub.22 free fatty acid soap, C.sub.8 -C.sub.22 free fatty acid, water, and petrolatum, preferably having a weight average particle size larger than 45 microns.

Abstract: The invention provides a personal cleansing freezer bar comprising a skeleton structure having a relatively rigid, interlocking, semi-continuous, open, three-dimensional, crystalline mesh of neutralized carboxylic acid soap selected from the group consisting of sodium soap; wherein said bar is made by the following steps:(1) mixing a molten mixture comprising by weight of said bar: from about 15% to about 85% of said soap and from about 15% to about 40% water;(2) cooling said mixture to a semi-solid in a scraped wall heat exchanger freezer;(3) extruding said semi-solid as a soft plug; and(4) further cooling said soft plug to provide said personal cleansing bar.

Abstract: A very stable mild soap personal cleansing and moisturizing composition comprising: C.sub.8 -C.sub.22 free fatty acid soap, C.sub.8 -C.sub.22 free fatty acid, water, and petrolatum, or emollient preferably having a weight average particle size larger than 45 microns.

Abstract: The invention provides a firm, ultra mild, neutral pH cleansing bar comprising: from about 5% to about 50% of monocarboxylic acid; wherein from about 20% to about 65% by weight of said monocarboxylic acid is neutralized; from about 20% to about 65% of an anionic and/or nonionic bar firmness aid, and from about 15% to about 55% water by weight of said bar;wherein said free monocarboxylic acid is from about 35% to about 80% by weight of said mixture of free and neutralized monocarboxylic acid;wherein said neutral pH is from about 6.3 to about 8.0;wherein the said neutralized monocarboxylic acid has a cation selected from the group consisting of sodium, magnesium, calcium, aluminum, and mixtures thereof; andwherein said bar comprises a rigid crystalline phase skeleton structure comprising an interlocking, open three-dimensional mesh of elongated crystals consisting essentially of said monocarboxylic acid.

Abstract: The invention provides a firm, ultra mild, neutral pH freezer bar comprising: from about 10% to about 50% of monocarboxylic acid; wherein from about 20% to about 65% by weight of said monocarboxylic acid is neutralized; from about 20% to about 65% of an anionic and/or nonionic bar firmness aid, and from about 15% to about 40% water by weight of said bar;wherein said neutral pH is from about 6.3 to about 8.0;wherein the neutral pH freezer bar is made by the following steps:I. mixing a molten (170.degree.-205.degree. F.; 76.degree.-96.degree. C.) mixture comprising said carboxylic acid; water; and bar firmness aid; neutralizing said 20% to about 65% of said carboxylic acid, preferably with sodium hydroxide;II. cooling said mixture to a semi-solid in a scraped wall heat exchanger freezer;III. extruding said semi-solid as a soft plug; and further cooling and crystallizing said soft plug until firm to provide said neutral pH personal cleansing freezer bar.