Dispersible wipes reinforced with a binding agent

A method comprising:

• forming a base sheet using short length fibers processed by wet or air laying of fibers, using a conventional paper machine or air laid machine;
• hydroentangling the base sheet using a low energy hydroentanglement and hydroentangled water needling technique, wherein a pressure level used for the hydroentangling is less than 500 pounds per square inch (PSI);
• applying a dispersible binding agent on top of the wetted, hydroentangled base sheet, by spraying or printing the binding agent on top of the hydroentangled base sheet, to provide a surface coating, yielding a reinforced base sheet having a layer of the binding agent which reinforces the adhesion between the short fibers of the base sheet, wherein said dispersible binding agent is a non-adhesive agent selected from microfibrillar cellulose fibers, nanocrystalline cellulose fibrils, microfibrillated cellulose, nanofibrillated cellulose, nanocellulose crystals, and wherein said dispersible binding agent is in an amount of 0.5-5 gram/square meter (gsm);
• drying the reinforced base sheet;
• and
• adding at most 400 wt. % of a wetting lotion to the reinforced base sheet, to form a wet wipe, wherein the dispersible binding agent binds the short length fibers of the base sheet when the wet wipe contains liquid at an amount of at most 400 wt. % from the weight of the base sheet and disperses in excess water when an amount of water exceeds 500 wt. % from the weight of the base sheet.