The Procter Gamble Company

Noxell Corporation

Henkel Ag & Company, Kgaa

Henkel IP Holding Gmbh

Clariant International Ltd

Wella Operations Us, LLC

Henkel IP & Holding Gmbh

Matthias Morand

Torsten Lindner

Robert Haines Turner

Holger Beruda

Gabriele Stiehl

William L Bunnelle

Ekaterina Anatolyevna Ponomarenko

Andres Sustic

Manfred Guenther Schmitt

Nick Fowler

Benjamin John Kutay

Enrico Buenacosa

Christian Neu

Steve Oetting

Steve McHaney

J J DeCair

Bill Turner

Jon Fagerness

Mathias Kurt Herrlein

Andreas Flohr

Yonas Gizaw

Matija Crne

Tatjana Schaefer

Ursula Christina Glaser

Vito Carla

Marianna Forgione

Andrea Pfarr Switzer

Jeremia Schwabe

Erik Hauck

Simon Bodendorfer

Maik Tremel

Anette Sallwey

Matthias Roessle

Ilaria Ambrogio

Mariangela Caputi

Wilfried Burg

Axel Meyer

Ebrahim Rezai

Todd Leon Mansfield

Tana Marie Kirkbride

Yuhong Hu

Thomas Tombuelt

Oliver Horst Heilmann

Thomas Krause

Klaus Hilbig

Michael Rene Weaver

Sebastijan Bach

Knut Meinert

Andy Swain

Jinyu Chen

Chad M Weldishofer

Naka Seidel

Jennifer Thatcher

Annette Elsbeth Klingelmeyer

Benedikt Hartmut Hermann Peter Wimmer

Martin Robert Ernest Leal

Elizabeth Ana Diez McCready

Uwe Mahla

Marc Hamm

Norbert Meyer

Donal Grey

Robert Haines Turneri

Elizabeth Diez Mccready

Annette Klingelmeyer

Sebastian Bach

Jj DeCAIR

A disposable absorbent article is described. The disposable absorbent article includes a topsheet forming at least a portion of a wearer-facing surface of the absorbent article; a backsheet forming at least a portion of a garment-facing surface of the absorbent article; an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet; and an adhesive for attachment of the disposable absorbent article to an undergarment. The adhesive is disposed on the garment-facing surface. The absorbent article exhibits a peel force of at least 1.0 N, about 1.1 N or about 1.2 N in accordance with the Peel Force test and leaves no residue on an undergarment in accordance with the Adhesive Residue test.

Adhesive for an absorbent article

Described herein is an absorbent article. The absorbent article includes an assembly of components and an adhesive composition joining at least two of the assembly of components together. The adhesive composition includes from about 50 wt. % to about 80 wt. % of one or more copolymers and a blend of one or more heterophase copolymers. The one or more copolymers include from about 30 mole % to about 70 mole % of monomer units selected from ethylene. 1-butene, and mixtures thereof. The one or more copolymers also include from about 30 mole % to about 70 mole % of propene monomer units. The adhesive composition is free of polyisobutylene and has a viscosity of from about 2,000 mPa·s to about 11,500 mPa·s at 150° C.

Absorbent article comprising an adhesive composition

An absorbent article is disclosed. The absorbent article has a longitudinal centerline, a transverse centerline generally perpendicular to the longitudinal centerline, a wearer-facing surface and an opposing garment-facing surface, a front end region, an opposing back end region, and a central region disposed between the front end region and the back end region. The absorbent article further includes a topsheet; a backsheet; an absorbent system disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet; and a plurality of pre-formed adhesive portions disposed on the garment-facing surface. The absorbent article exhibits a peel force of at least 1.0 N in accordance with the Peel Force test and leaves no residue in accordance with the Adhesive Residue test method.

An absorbent article (′) comprising a topsheet (), a backsheet (), and an absorbent core (), and at least one nonwoven-nonwoven adhesive bond other than a core stabilization bond, wherein the adhesive of the adhesive bond has a Toughness of at least 11 MJ/m, a Yield Stress of at least 0.7 MPa. The adhesive may further have a storage modulus G′ of at least 7.5 MPa. These are as measured at 37° C. according to the methods described herein. The adhesive comprises at least 5% by weight of the adhesive of a tackifier.

Absorbent article with high toughness adhesive

A hotmelt composition comprising, a low molecular weight metallocene-catalyzed polymer, a high molecular weight polymer, an amorphous polyolefin and a tackifier. The hotmelt composition is particularly useful in absorbent articles such as diapers. The hotmelt composition provides especially good nonwoven-film bonds but can also be used for nonwoven-nonwoven bonds.

Tackified hotmelt adhesive composition

Described herein is an absorbent article having an absorbent core. The absorbent core includes a superabsorbent polymer material and a superabsorbent polymer immobilizing material. The superabsorbent polymer immobilizing material includes from about 20% to about 70% of a first polymer and from about 30% to about 80% of a second polymer. The superabsorbent polymer immobilizing material has a Shear Viscosity at 10 (1/s) at 230&#xb0; C. of from about 300 mPa&#xb7;s to about 10,000 mPa&#xb7;s.

Absorbent cores comprising a superabsorbent polymer immobilizing material

The invention relates to thermoplastic molding compounds having melt viscosities of less than 30,000 mPas for use as a hot-melt adhesive, comprising the components A and B, wherein component A comprises one or more C/Ccopolymers each produced with metallocene catalysts and each having a melt viscosity at 170&#xb0; C. of less than 20,000 mPas, measured according to DIN 53019, and a molecular weight Mof 1000 g/mol to 50,000 g/mol, and component B comprises one or more C/Ccopolymers each produced with metallocene catalysts and each having a melt flow index MI of 1 to 100 g/m in, measured at 190&#xb0; C./2.16 kg, according to ASTM D 1238, and a molecular weight Mof 50,000 g/mol to 300,000 g/mol. Said thermoplastic molding compounds, because of the viscosity and mechanical properties thereof, are suitable for fiber mesh applications.

Thermoplastic molding compounds

Described herein is an adhesive composition including a copolymer. The adhesive composition has a viscosity of from about 2,000 mPa&#xb7;s to about 11,500 mPa&#xb7;s at 150&#xb0; C. The adhesive composition has a Storage Modulus at 37&#xb0; C. of from about 3 MPa to 9.5 MPa. The adhesive composition has a Yield Stress at 37&#xb0; C. of from about 0.8 MPa to about 1.45 MPa.

Adhesive composition for absorbent articles

Described herein is an adhesive composition including (a) from about 70 wt. % to about 90 wt. % of one or more copolymers, and (b) from about 10 wt. % to about 30 wt. % of one or more heterophase copolymers. The one or more copolymers include (i) from about 30 mole % to about 70 mole % of monomer units selected from the group consisting of ethylene, 1-butene, and mixtures thereof; and (ii) from about 30 mole % to about 70 mole % of propene monomer units. The adhesive composition is free of polyisobutylene. The adhesive composition has a viscosity of from about 2,000 mPa&#xb7;s to about 11,500 mPa&#xb7;s at 150&#xb0; C. The one or more heterophase copolymers includes a first heterophase copolymer and a second heterophase copolymer.

Stretch laminate hot melt adhesives and stretch laminates are described. The stretch laminate hot melt adhesives are suitable for adhering elastic materials with inelastic substrates, and allow permanent deformation of the inelastic substrate and extensions and retractions of the elastic materials. The stretch laminate hot melt adhesive is particularly suitable for back ear lamination for disposable absorbent articles.

Stretch laminates

An absorbent article comprising at least one stretchable laminate comprising a first nonwoven, a second nonwoven, and an elastic film therebetween, wherein each of the first and second nonwovens is adhesively bonded to the film by a hot melt adhesive; wherein the film is no thicker than about 60 micrometers; wherein at least one of the nonwovens is spunbonded; wherein the laminate is activated with a minimum of about 290% applied strain and a minimum strain rate of about 850/sec; and wherein the laminate is substantially free from pinholes.

Absorbent articles with activation-friendly laminates

A composition for providing a film on keratin fibres, the composition comprising an aminosilicone polymer; a silicone resin which is a MQ resin; a thickening system comprising a thickening polymer; water; one or more pigments or one or more coloured materials; wherein when drying the composition spread with an average wet thickness of 37 micron the fluidity factor is measured to form a drying curve of fluidity factor over time, wherein the fluidity factor is within the range of 10 Hz to 0.001 Hz within the first 15 minutes of drying and the fluidity factor reduces by at least a factor of 100 within the first 15 minutes of drying; wherein the drying curve of fluidity factor over time is measured according to the fluidity factor measurement method and at 23&#xb0; C. and ambient conditions. Also associated methods, kits and uses.

Composition for forming a film on keratin fibres

A method for colouring hair, wherein the method comprises: (i) the formation of a first plurality of coated hair fibre portions, wherein the coating comprises a first composition, wherein the first composition comprises a first hair colouring agent, a hydrophobic phase, a hydrophilic phase, a surfactant, and a thickener capable of interacting with the hydrophobic phase and the hydrophilic phase; and subsequently (ii) styling the hair wherein the first plurality of coated hair fibre portions is contacted with a second plurality of hair fibre portions; wherein the method does not comprise the application of a solid barrier means in order to separate the first plurality of coated hair fibre portions from the second plurality of hair fibre portions, and wherein the first composition is substantially free of persulfate.

Method for colouring hair

An absorbent structure for an absorbent article, comprising a first substrate and an absorbent layer supported thereon, said absorbent layer comprising an absorbent material comprising a superabsorbent polymer material; wherein said absorbent structure comprises a fiberized net structure to at least partially immobilize said absorbent layer onto said first substrate, and whereby said fiberized net structure has a storage modulus (G') at 21&#xb0; C. of greater than about 1.2&#xd7;10Pa.

Absorbent articles with improved strength

Absorbent articles and absorbent core structures with improved core strength and stability with long core end seal and channel hang times.

Absorbent articles with improved cores

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