Disposable absorbent articles providing a skin condition benefit

US6107537A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• The Procter & Gamble Company · US

Inventors

• Gretchen Louise Elder · Blue Ash, US
• Donald Carroll Roe · Sharonville, US
• Laura Graves Spalding Van Rijswijck · Burlington, US
• Mathias Kurt Herrlein · Kronberg, DE
• Manfred Plischke · Rheinböllen, DE
• Julie Charlene Rule · Cincinnati, US
• George Christopher Dobrin · Mason, US
• Edward John Milbrada · Sharonville, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 10, 1997
• Grant date: Aug 22, 2000
• Expiry date: Sep 10, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61F13/51462
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

The present invention relates to absorbent articles which provide improved protection against skin overhydration. A particularly preferred embodiment of an absorbent article of the present invention comprises a body contacting surface having a skin care composition thereon that, when at least a portion of the composition is transferred to a wearer's skin by normal body motion or body heat, the material is effective in providing a skin condition benefit and a liquid impermeable, breathable backsheet having a mass vapor transmission rate value (MVTR) of at least about 1300 g/m.sup.2 /24 hr and an absorbent core having a post acquisition collagen rewet method value (PACORM) with a PACORM:MVTR ratio is less than 0.05 mg/(g/m.sup.2 /24 hr).