Patent ID: 8426669

Claim:
An absorbent article comprising a signal composite; wherein the signal composite has a body-facing surface, a garment-facing surface, a longitudinal direction, a transverse direction and a z-direction; wherein the signal composite comprises a carrier substrate layer, a first stimulation layer, a second stimulation layer, a first thermoplastic adhesive layer and a second thermoplastic adhesive layer; wherein the carrier substrate layer is liquid permeable or water-soluble and is disposed as a bottom layer of the signal composite in the z-direction to provide the garment-facing surface of the signal composite; wherein the first stimulation layer comprises a first stimulation material and is disposed above the carrier substrate layer; wherein the second stimulation layer comprises a second stimulation material and is disposed above the first stimulation layer to provide the body-facing surface of the signal composite; wherein the first thermoplastic adhesive layer is liquid permeable or water-soluble and is disposed between and adjacent to the carrier substrate layer and the first stimulation layer; wherein the second thermoplastic adhesive layer is liquid permeable or water-soluble and is disposed between the first stimulation layer and the second stimulation layer; and wherein each stimulation layer comprises at least 50 wt % of stimulation material having a solubility of from 0.1 grams to 6 grams of material per gram of water.