The Procter Gamble Company

Mark D Seymour

Thomas Ward Osborn, Iii

Steven Ray Gilbert

Charles J Berg

Douglas Toms

Charles D Cook

Gary William Kingry

Thomas H Daugherty

Daniella J Fisher

Michael F LiCause

An individually packaged sanitary napkin having a cleansing wipe packaged therewith. The individually packaged sanitary napkin includes a wrapper that covers the sanitary napkin's adhesive fastener prior to use. The sanitary napkin wrapper can be provided with a flap or pouch for securing the used sanitary napkin for disposal. A number of alternative arrangements are disclosed for packaging the cleansing wipe with the wrapped sanitary napkin.

Individually packaged sanitary napkin having cleaning wipe packaged

The present invention relates to absorbent web structures suitable for incorporation into absorbent articles such as sanitary napkins, diapers, incontinent devices, training pants and the like. Such structures comprised webs of entangled melt blown microfibers which are prepared from a particular type of hydrophilic nylon copolymer. Preferred hydrophilic cylon microfiber-based webs also contain staple fibers and/or particles of hydrogel-forming polymeric gelling agent. Web structures containing hydrophilic nylon microfibers have specially desirable comfort, integrity and fluid handling characteristics.

Microfiber-containing absorbent structures and absorbent articles

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Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

Mark D Seymour