Patent ID: 8440606

Claim:
A cleansing product for bodily cleansing, the cleansing product comprising: an absorbent material, a polymeric network, an exfolliant agent, and a cleansing composition, the polymeric network being present in an amount of no greater than 50% (by total weight product), the cleansing composition comprising a surfactant, wherein the cleansing product is capable of expanding to a size of from about 80% to about 100% of its final expanded volume when contacted with warm water having a temperature of from about 19° C. to about 65° C. in no sooner than about 10 seconds, and wherein the polymeric network comprises polymers selected from the group consisting of modified starches, styrene maleic anhydride copolymer, metal salt neutralized ethylene methacrylic acid copolymer, polyether-block-polyurethane, polyethyloxazoline, water-soluble polyurethane, and combinations thereof, and wherein the cleansing product further comprises a sponge material, the sponge material comprising melamine-foam material.