Liquid cleanser compositions for cleaning hard surfaces comprising an aqueous solution containing from 2 to 30% by weight of a mixture consisting of: (a) adducts of 3 to 30 mols of ethylene oxide onto vicinal alkanediols having 10 to 20 carbon atoms or monoalkyl ethers of said alkanediols with 1 to 4 carbon atoms in the alkyl, and (b) linear alkylbenzene sulfonic acids and/or linear alkane sulfonic acids, each with 8 to 20 carbon atoms in the alkyl or alkane, and their water-soluble salts, in a weight ratio of a:b of from 1:1 to 1:20.
