Soft absorbent coform nonwoven web

A method of forming a stratified nonwoven web material comprising:

• moving a forming surface in a machine direction;
• merging a first stream of an absorbent material with a first stream of meltblown polymer fibers disposed upstream in the machine direction from the first stream of absorbent material and with a second stream of meltblown polymer fibers disposed downstream in the machine direction from the first stream of absorbent material, the first stream of absorbent material, the first stream of meltblown polymer fibers, and the second stream of meltblown polymer fibers forming a first composite stream, at least one of the first stream of meltblown polymer fibers and the second stream of meltblown polymer fibers comprising bicomponent meltblown polymer fibers formed of a first polymer component and a second polymer component with the second polymer component forming greater than 0% and less than or equal to 20% by weight of a total polymeric content of said bicomponent meltblown polymer fibers;
• collecting the first composite stream onto the forming surface;
• merging a second stream of an absorbent material with a third stream of meltblown polymer fibers disposed upstream in the machine direction from the second stream of absorbent material and with a fourth stream of meltblown polymer fibers disposed downstream in the machine direction from the second stream of absorbent material, the second stream of absorbent material, the third stream of meltblown polymer fibers, and the fourth stream of meltblown polymer fibers forming a second composite stream, at least one of the third stream of meltblown polymer fibers and the fourth stream of meltblown polymer fibers comprising bicomponent meltblown polymer fibers formed of the first polymer component and the second polymer component with the first polymer component forming greater than 0% and less than or equal to 20% by weight of a total polymeric content of said bicomponent meltblown fibers;
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• collecting the second composite stream onto the collected first composite stream to form the stratified nonwoven web material.

A method of forming a stratified nonwoven web material comprising:

• merging a first stream of an absorbent material with one or more first streams of meltblown polymer fibers to form a first composite stream, at least one of the one or more first streams of meltblown polymer fibers comprising bicomponent fibers formed of a first polymer component and a second polymer component;
• collecting the first composite stream onto a forming surface;
• merging a second stream of an absorbent material with one or more second streams of meltblown polymer fibers to form a second composite stream, at least one of the one or more second streams of meltblown polymer fibers comprising monocomponent fibers formed of the first polymer component or a third polymer different than either of the first polymer component and the second polymer component;
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• collecting the second composite stream onto the collected first composite stream to form the stratified nonwoven web material;
• wherein the stratified nonwoven web material has a TS7 Softness value of greater than or equal to 2.83 and less than or equal to 3.86, according to the TS7 Softness Test Method, and
• wherein the stratified nonwoven web material has a CDT Strength value of greater than or equal to 228 gf and less than or equal to 312 gf, according to the CDT Strength Test Method.