Patent ID: 6974520

Claim:
In a method for forming a bonded and creped nonwoven web which comprises: applying a polymer emulsion binder to a nonwoven web to form a coated nonwoven web, drying the coated nonwoven web, and subsequently creping said dried coated nonwoven web in a crepe process; the improvement which comprises using an alkylphenol ethoxylate-free polymer emulsion binder formed by emulsion polymerizing one or more ethylenically unsaturated monomers and one or more crosslinking monomers, in the presence of an anionic surfactant comprised of a sodium laureth sulfate having 1 to 12 moles of ethylene oxide and a nonionic surfactant comprising a secondary alcohol ethoxylate containing 7 to 30 moles of ethylene oxide or an ethoxylated branched primary alcohol containing 3 to 30 moles of ethylene oxide, said primary or secondary alcohol containing 7 to 18 carbons.