Disposable absorbent articles with controlled skin hydration effect
OwnerMathais Kurt Herrlein, John Peter Lankhof +4inventors
InventorsMathais Kurt Herrlein, John Peter Lankhof, Muir Charles Robertson, Jose Dominguez-Staedke, Ivan Jean Olliver, Karl Michael Schumann
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Abstract
This invention is a disposable absorbent article (20) covering certain parts of the body of the wearer and comprising a loading area, a storage area, as well as a chassis area, whereby the absorbent article has a specific skin hydration value, calculated from the individual skin hydration values of the respective areas.
Claims7
An absorbent article capable of covering certain parts of a body and comprising distinct areas including a loading area, a storage area, and a chassis area, wherein said article has a Skin Hydration Index Value of less than 1300, calculated based on a summation of individual Skin Hydration Values of said loading area, said storage area, and said chassis area wherein said Skin Hydration Values of said loading area, said storage area, and said chassis area are determined by fluid transfer methods using hydratable collagen film materials and can be expressed in terms of (mg of moisture pick up/area of hydratable collagen film material)×(total area of the loading area, storage area, or chassis area).
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