Hygiene product

A hygiene product comprising:

• a sanitary napkin including an elongated main body portion having longitudinally opposed front and rear ends and wing portions protruding from transversely opposed side edges of the main body portion and folded back against a body surface of the main body portion;
• a release sheet covering pressure sensitive adhesive layers provided on garment surfaces of the wing portions, the release sheet having an interior surface in contact with the pressure sensitive adhesive layers of the wing portions and an exterior surface opposite from the interior surface;
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• a packaging sheet having an interior surface with a release-treated portion covering a pressure sensitive adhesive layer provided on a garment surface of the main body portion and an exterior surface opposite from the interior surface, a stack of the packaging sheet, the sanitary napkin and the release sheet being so folded twice or more to form the hygiene product in which only the packaging sheet is exposed externally, wherein
• the stack is first folded such that a rear protruding portion of the packaging sheet which protrudes rearwardly from the rear end of the sanitary napkin before folding is laid on the exterior surface of the release sheet, and the rear protruding portion being bonded to the exterior surface of the release sheet at a position located rearwardly away from the pressure sensitive adhesive layers of the wing portions and forwardly away from the rear end of the sanitary napkin before folding, the stack is then folded at least once such that the front end of the sanitary napkin and a front edge of the packaging sheet adjacent to the front end of the sanitary napkin are laid on an exterior surface of the packaging sheet which is exposed externally.