KR20130112490A - An vegetable absorber using psyllium husk and the use thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to an environmentally friendly plant that is not chemical absorbent and harmless to the human body and its use, and in particular, a vegetable absorber which can be more usefully used for absorbing secretion discharged from the human body in contact with the human body, and the same. It relates to an absorbent article.
By using a vegetable absorbent harmless to the human body and an absorbent article comprising the same, there is an effect of blocking the occurrence of side effects due to the polymer chemical absorbent used in the existing absorbent article.

Description

An vegetable absorber using psyllium husk and the use about

The present invention relates to an environmentally friendly plant that is not chemical absorbent and harmless to the human body and its use, and in particular, a vegetable absorber which can be more usefully used for absorbing secretion discharged from the human body in contact with the human body, and the same. It relates to an absorbent article.

In general, the absorbent article is a product for absorbing secretions discharged from the human body, such as blood, menstrual blood, urine and the like. Types of the absorbent articles include sanitary pads, baby diapers, adult diapers, panty liners for women's products, sanitary napkins, tampons, and the like.

Women use a sanitary napkin that is a disposable absorbent article every month during menstruation, and there is an absorbent that effectively absorbs and stores secretions discharged from the human body. In particular, the absorber of the disposable sanitary napkin currently on the market is composed of a polymer absorber made of a synthetic chemical such as acrylic acid polymer or polyvinyl alcohol as a raw material. Since the polymer absorber is processed by a large amount of bleach, it contains harmful ingredients such as dioxin, which may cause uterine cancer or endometriosis, and due to its strong absorption ability, it absorbs harmless moisture inside the vagina as well as secretions such as menstrual blood. It may cause vaginal dryness.

In addition, sanitary napkins are odorless, and during menstruation, various components, such as proteins and fats in menstrual blood, react with the polymer compounds in the polymer absorber, resulting in a characteristic unpleasant odor.

In order to solve the above problems, various kinds of alternative sanitary napkins have been released.

Pure cotton sanitary napkin is an alternative sanitary napkin used by most women. Like some sanitary napkins, it is not only pure cotton cover but also all cotton and lining, so it can be used for a long time, and it is popular among sensitive women but has high price and management inconvenience.

The sponge is recycled with a silk sponge sanitary pad made from plants growing in the deep sea. It is harmless to humans because there is no environmental hormone, and it is hard in dry condition, but it is very soft when wet with water. Just because of the implantable sanitary napkin, there is a problem contrary to our emotions.

A keeper is a menstrual cup that is inserted into a woman's body and receives menstrual blood. A keeper made of a natural rubber funnel is placed at the entrance of the vagina to collect menstrual blood at the funnel area to prevent the menstrual blood from leaking out. This is also an implantable sanitary napkin, which is contrary to our emotions.

Tampons are a common type of sanitary napkin used by 80% of American women.There are safety concerns, such as harmful substances from chemical tampons that infect the vagina and blood in the uterus and cause various diseases.

As described above, the alternative sanitary napkins present their own solutions for solving the problems of the existing sanitary napkins, but they are not widely used due to other problems of the alternative sanitary napkins themselves.

Therefore, there is a need for the development of absorbent articles, such as sanitary napkins, which are simple and harmless to the human body, which do not have the problems of existing sanitary napkins.

Accordingly, the present inventors have focused on the fact that the vegetative blood, which is a vegetable material, has a function of absorbing moisture, and have found that the vegetal absorbent including the vegetative blood can replace the polymer absorber of the existing absorbent article, and completed the present invention.

The main object of the present invention is to replace the polymer absorbent used in the existing absorbent article to provide a vegetable absorbent including the chaff blood.

Another object of the present invention to provide an absorbent article comprising the vegetable absorbent.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a vegetable absorbent body comprising the solid-state car blood as a main component.

In addition, the charge blood is preferably in the form of powder or granules or a mixture thereof.

In particular, the vegetable absorbent is preferably capable of absorbing the secretion discharged from the human body, wherein the secretion is more preferably menstrual blood, blood, urine and the like.

In addition, the vegetable absorbents are herbal medicines, motherwort, hyangbuja, selected from the group consisting of bark bark, red ginseng, creation, yellowish white, casualty, camphor, baekbugeun, alum, cheoncho, ringworm, blood red, peppermint, gold and silver, low root baekpi It may further comprise at least one plant component of the herb selected from the group consisting of three hundred seconds, wormwood, horoscope, peppermint donkey and the like.

As such, the vegetable absorber is preferably made of only plant components.

The present invention to achieve another object,

It provides an absorbent article comprising the vegetable absorbent.

At this time, the absorbent article is preferably one kind of article selected from the group consisting of sanitary napkins, panty liners, tampons, sanitary pads, baby diapers, adult diapers and the like.

The plant absorbent body including the chaff of the present invention exhibits an excellent absorption rate and absorbency, and thus can exhibit an inherent function of the absorbent body, and thus can be used in place of a chemical polymer absorber used in existing absorbent articles. In addition, the absorbent of the present invention is environmentally friendly and harmless to the human body, since it is a chafer blood or optionally a herbal absorbent composed of herbal or herbal plant components, itching, skin rash, odor, uterine cancer, endometriosis due to the use of existing absorbent articles even for long-term use. It is effective in blocking side effects such as dryness and vaginal dryness.

1 is a perspective view showing a sanitary napkin according to the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of a portion of the sanitary napkin of FIG. 1 taken along line AA ′. FIG.
Figure 3 is a photograph of the absorbent article using a sanitary napkin used in carrying out the embodiment of the present invention.
Figure 4 is a photograph of a paper cup containing water colored with blue ink used in the implementation of the embodiment of the present invention.
5 is a photograph comparing the absorption capacity of a sanitary napkin using a normal sanitary napkin and a vegetable absorbent after pouring water.
6 is a photograph of checking the state by opening the cover.
Figure 7 is a picture to check whether the water comes off the cover by closing the cover again.
8 is a photograph of the result of the absorber absorbing water in a general sanitary napkin.
Figure 9 is a photograph of the results of the absorption of water from the vegetable absorbent sanitary napkin according to the present invention.

The techniques and procedures described or referenced herein are well understood and generally used by those skilled in the art.

The terms used in the present invention are defined as follows.

"Charter" means a plantain seed, and the shell is called "chatter blood."

"Absorbent" is an object having a function capable of absorbing and retaining menstrual blood, urine, blood, and other secretions, and mainly includes a polymer compound, but in the present invention, the primary blood is included as a main component.

A "polymer absorber" or "chemical absorber" is understood as an absorbent comprising a synthetic high molecular compound such as a reinforced absorbent polymer (SAP).

A "vegetable absorber" is understood to be an absorbent which is free of high molecular compounds and comprises natural vegetable materials such as chamecha, herbals and herbs.

"Granular state" refers to a granulated state in which a fine powdery substance is hygroscopic and the powder component becomes sticky and the powder aggregates to form 30 to 150 times larger particles, which are re-dried granulated state. By granulation, the kernel becomes a porous structure, and the wettability is improved.

"Absorbent article" is understood to mean an article suitable for absorption of body fluids. This includes in particular the absorption of urine, blood, menstrual blood and fecal matter. The absorbent article according to the present invention is often a disposable article, but it does not necessarily need to be a disposable article. Examples of absorbent articles according to the present invention include sanitary pads, especially sanitary napkins, panty liners, tampons, baby diapers, adult diapers, and the like.

"Liquid permeable cover layer" is understood to mean the top layer of an absorbent article which, in use, faces the body and comes into contact with the wearer's body. This cover layer is essentially liquid permeable in the sense that secretions such as blood or urine can penetrate through the cover layer to other parts of the absorbent article.

"Liquid impermeable backing layer" is understood to mean the bottom layer of an absorbent article disposed away from the wearer's body in use. This backing layer is essentially liquid impermeable in the sense that the secretions that penetrate into and reach the absorbent article can no longer spread in a direction away from the wearer's body. In many cases the backing layer is the layer facing away from the wearer's body and is located farthest from the body, but there may be other layers, such as adhesive layers and nonwovens, further away from the wearer's body.

"Pulp" is understood to be an aggregate of cellulose fibers produced by a conventional pulp manufacturing process in wood or other fiber plants used for wood pulp or non-wood pulp, or a powder obtained by pulverizing an aggregate of these fibers to a particle size. The wood pulp includes coniferous or hardwood wood such as pine, fir, larch, poplar, birch, aspen, oak, oak, ginkgo, and the like, and the non-wood pulp is straw, soybean, reed, reed, bamboo , Bagasse, and the like.

"Air-laid" is manufactured by using compressed air and adhesive at the same time as pulp as the main material, and because the tensile strength of the width and length is not large, the diaper is larger in volume per unit weight and more absorbent than other products. Widely used in absorbent products such as sanitary napkins and sanitary napkins.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail.

The present invention is meaningful to find an absorber made of a natural material that can replace the polymer absorbent existing in a conventional sanitary napkin.

The present invention, in one aspect, relates to a vegetable absorbent body comprising the chameulja blood as a main component.

`` Chachaepi '' means the peel of the plantain seed, the Asian plantain is a perennial plant of the dicotyledonous plantain, the plantain of the plantain, there is no stem, the leaves come together from the root, oval or egg-shaped, 4-15cm in length, It is 3 ~ 8cm wide, with 5 parallel veins distinct, with wavy teeth on the edges. It is easily available as wild plants such as grass, roadsides, or glades. It is also easy to cultivate.

The chafer blood absorbs as much as 40 to 60 times as much as its own weight, and retains the moisture once absorbed without being discharged again. This absorber can perform an absorber function of absorbing secretion discharged from the human body. In particular, when absorbing physiological blood absorbed physiological blood is changed to a gel (gel) state and after the change in the gel state, even under pressure, the physiological blood is not leaked out can maintain the absorption state well. Therefore, the present invention takes advantage of the characteristics of such a charge shield.

In the present invention, the charge blood contained in the absorber is preferably in a solid state and may exist in powder or granular form.

In the case of powder, the chaff blood is pulverized to obtain powder powder directly, or the chaff blood powder powder on the market is obtained by a conventional method.

In the case of granules, the granules are obtained through the usual granulation process, and the granules are made of a porous structure, and thus the absorption ability is improved. Therefore, the chaff blood is preferably present in granules or in a mixture of powder and granules.

In addition, the vegetable absorber of the present invention may further comprise a plant component such as herbal or herbal for additional efficacy.

The composition of the herbal medicines include neck root, red ginseng, creation, yellowish white, casualty, camphor, baekbugeun, alum, cheoncho, ringworm, red blood, peppermint, gold and silver, low root baekpi, etc. (Stops itching) or skin diseases.

The herbs include motherwort, hyangbuja, three hundred seconds, mugwort, cheongung, peppermint Angelica, etc. These are also harmless to the human body by the effects and pharmacological effects of various herbs, such as menstrual pain relief, skin trouble prevention, odor prevention and the like.

At this time, the content of the herbal medicines and herbs that can be added can be arbitrarily adjusted according to the expected degree of additional efficacy, and the sum of the herbal weight and the herbal weight percent of the total weight of the vegetable absorbent of the present invention is about 10-20. It may be included in% or less.

As such, the vegetable absorbent body of the present invention is composed of only the natural components such as chameul and optionally herbal, herbal, etc., it is harmless to the human body, eco-friendly, absorption rate, absorption is good and can be used suitably for absorbent articles.

Thus, in another aspect, the present invention relates to an absorbent article comprising the vegetable absorbent body.

The absorbent article of the present invention may suitably include the vegetable absorbent described above.

If it is a method including the said absorber, it will not specifically limit, It can select and apply the method normally used in the technical field to which this invention belongs. For example, the absorbent body may be packaged and inserted into the absorbent article, or the absorbent member may be applied to the surface of the nonwoven fabric layer and then inserted into the absorbent article.

Examples of the absorbent article include sanitary napkins, panty liners, tampons, baby diapers, adult diapers, sanitary pads, and the like.

1 is a perspective view showing a sanitary napkin 200 according to the present invention.

The sanitary napkin of the present invention includes the above-described vegetable absorbent which is in contact with the wearer's body when the article is worn and is disposed away from the wearer's body when the article is in use and the liquid permeable cover layer 210 is placed on top of the vegetable absorbent. It is preferable to further include a component of the liquid impermeable backing layer 220 positioned below.

FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of a portion of the sanitary napkin 200 of FIG. 1 taken along line AA ′.

As shown in FIG. 2, an absorbent layer 240 exists in a space between the liquid permeable cover layer 210 and the liquid impermeable backing layer 220. The absorbent layer includes a first nonwoven fabric layer (or pulp layer) 241, It is composed of a two-stage nonwoven layer composed of a second nonwoven fabric layer (or pulp layer) 242, and the vegetable absorber 230 may be positioned between the first nonwoven fabric layer 241 and the second nonwoven fabric layer 242. have.

The surge layer 250 is configured to surround the absorbing layer 240 and is made of air-laid. The surge layer 250 made of airlaid is surrounded by the absorber layer 240 to prevent the vegetable absorber 230 from leaking out.

Typically, the vegetable absorbent body of the present invention is located in the space between the liquid permeable cover layer and the liquid impermeable backing layer, the manner of which is not limited to the method of FIG. 2 as an example and is well known in the art or in the art. It includes both ways that are easily used and modified by those skilled in the art.

For example, in addition to the method in which the vegetable absorbent 230 is distributed in the absorbent layer 240 positioned between the two layers of the nonwoven fabric, a nonwoven fabric may be further inserted into the nonwoven fabric layer in three or more stages to improve absorption. In addition, a method of including a vegetable absorbent in the nonwoven layer or applying the surface to the surface instead of the absorbent layer may be possible.

On the other hand, as well as sanitary napkins, absorbent articles such as panty liners, baby diapers, adult diapers, tampons, sanitary pads, etc., the absorber-containing manner may be modified for each purpose.

As described above, the absorbent of the present invention is composed of a vegetative chaff blood, which can fundamentally solve the problems of the absorber composed of a conventional polymer compound, and as shown in the following examples, the absorption rate and the amount of absorption are also excellent to perform an inherent function of the absorber. It is expected to be widely used in absorbent articles as it can.

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Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to Examples. It is to be understood by those skilled in the art that these embodiments are merely illustrative of the present invention and that the scope of the present invention is not construed as being limited by these embodiments.

Specifically, the embodiment of the present invention is described through a sanitary napkin, but is not limited to the sanitary napkin and can be applied to other absorbent articles.

Example 1 Evaluation of Absorptive Capacity

As shown in FIG. 3, first, the cover of the sanitary napkin was removed by using only the chaff blood and dug all the covers. Then, 10g of the chaff blood powder was put in and flattened to prepare a sanitary napkin according to the present invention.

And the absorption capacity was compared by using a commercial sanitary napkin as a control. 5 to 7, the left sanitary napkin is a general sanitary napkin and the right sanitary napkin is a sanitary napkin using the vegetable absorbent according to the present invention.

The experimental process will be briefly described with reference to the drawings as follows.

First, 100 ml of water was heated to about 30 degrees, colored with blue ink, and 50 ml divided into two paper cups. (Figure 4)

After attaching a normal sanitary napkin on the left side of the A4 paper and a sanitary napkin using a vegetable absorbent body on the right side, the water contained in the paper cups was evenly poured on both sides of the sanitary napkin, and then waited about 1 minute. (Fig. 5)

After that, the cover was opened to check the condition. (FIG. 6)

After closing the cover again, it was checked with a finger whether water came out of the cover. (Fig. 7)

And it was confirmed that the absorber of the general sanitary napkin absorbed water. (Fig. 8)

At the same time, it was confirmed that the plant absorber according to the present invention absorbed water.

The experimental results are shown in Table 1.

As a result of the experiment, the absorption rate of the general sanitary napkin was faster than the present invention, and the general sanitary napkin was more abundant in the absorption amount.

As stated above, if the absorption rate is too fast, this causes the vaginal dryness. The present invention can alleviate the vaginal dryness by alleviating the absorption rate.

In addition, the amount of menstrual blood was also less than 50 ml in the absorption, it was confirmed that there is no problem in performing the function of the sanitary napkin.

Furthermore, in the sense of wearing which is an important factor in selecting a sanitary napkin by a general woman, the sanitary napkin according to the present invention has a softer feeling than the conventional general sanitary napkin after water absorption, and the thickness is also thinner than a conventional sanitary napkin to provide an excellent fit. I could confirm that.

From these results, it can be seen that the vegetable absorbent of the present invention can sufficiently function as an alternative to the conventional polymer chemical absorbent.

Although the present invention has been described in connection with the above-mentioned preferred embodiments, various other modifications and variations may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. It is, therefore, to be understood that the appended claims are intended to cover such modifications and changes as fall within the true scope of the invention.

200: absorbent article 210: liquid permeable cover layer
220: liquid impermeable backing layer 230: vegetable absorber
240 absorbing layer 241 first nonwoven fabric layer
242: second nonwoven layer 250: surge layer

Claims (8)

A vegetable absorber comprising as a main component a solid-state tea blood. The vegetable absorber according to claim 1, wherein the solid-state charge cell is in a powder state, a granule state, or a mixture thereof. The plant absorber according to claim 1, wherein the plant absorber can absorb secretions discharged from the human body. 4. The plant absorbent according to claim 3, wherein said secretion is menstrual blood, blood or urine. According to claim 1, wherein the plant absorbents are herbal medicines and motherwort selected from the group consisting of bark skin, red ginseng, creation, yellowish white, casualty, camphor, baekryeok, alum, cheonchoe, ringworm skin, red blood, peppermint, gold and silver, low root skin, A vegetable absorber further comprising at least one plant component of a herb selected from the group consisting of Hyangbuja, Trichophytium, Wormwood, Cheongung, and Peppermint Angelica. The vegetable absorbent according to claim 1 or 5, wherein the vegetable absorbent consists only of vegetable components. An absorbent article comprising the vegetable absorbent of claim 1. The absorbent article as set forth in claim 7, wherein the absorbent article is one kind selected from the group consisting of a sanitary napkin, panty liner, tampon, baby diaper, adult diaper, and sanitary pad.

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