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[0089] Suitable fatty alcohol type emollients include C - C$_{22 }$fatty alcohols, preferably C$_{1}$cC$_{18 }$ fatty alcohols. Rep› resentative examples include cetyl alcohol and stearyl alco› hol, and mixtures thereof, such as cetearyl alcohol (Available from the Procter & Gamble Company, Cincin› nati, Ohio as TA1618). When employed, these fatty alcohol emollients are typically used in combination with the petro› leum-based emollients, such as petrolatum, at a weight ratio of fatty alcohol emollient to petroleum-based emollient of from about 1:1 to about 1:5, preferably from about 1:1 to about 1:2. 

[0090] Other suitable types of emollients for use herein include polysiloxane compounds. In general, suitable pol› ysiloxane materials for use in the present invention include those having monomeric siloxane units of the following structure: 

[0091] wherein, R 1 and R 2 , for each independent siloxane monomeric unit can each independently be hydrogen or any alkyl, aryl, alkenyl, alkaryl, arakyl, cycloalkyl,. halogenated hydrocarbon, or other radical. Any of such radicals can be substituted or unsubstituted. R 1 and R 2 radicals of any particular monomeric unit may differ from the correspond› ing functionalities of the next adjoining monomeric unit. Additionally, the polysiloxane can be either a straight chain, a branched chain or have a cyclic structure. The radicals R 1 and R 2 can additionally independently be other silaceous functionalities such as, but not limited to, siloxanes, polysi› loxanes, silanes, and polysilanes. The radicals R 1 and R 2 may contain any of a variety of organic fuctionalities includ› ing, for example, alcohol, carboxylic acid, phenyl, and amine functionalities. 

[0092] Exemplary alkyl radicals are methyl, ethyl, propyl, butyl, pentyl, hexyl, octyl, decyl, octadecyl, and the like. Exemplary alkenyl radicals are vinyl, allyl, and the like. Exemplary aryl radicals are phenyl, diphenyl, naphthyl, and the like. Exemplary alkaryl radicals are toy 1, xylyl, ethylphe› nyl, and the like. Exemplary aralkyl radicals are benzyl, alpha-phenylethyl, beta-phenylethyl, alpha-phenylbutyl, and the like. Exemplary cycloalkyl radicals are cyclobutyl, cyclopentyl, cyclohexyl, and the like. Exemplary haloge› nated hydrocarbon radicals are chloromethyl, bromoethyl, tetrafluorethyl, fluorethyl, trifluorethyl, trifluorotloyl, hexafluoroxylyl, and the like. 

[0093] The viscosity of polysiloxanes useful in the present invention may vary as widely as the viscosity of polysilox› anes in general varies, so long as the polysiloxane is flowable or can be made to be flowable for application to the absorbent article. This includes, but is not limited to, vis› cosity as low as 5 centistokes (at 37° C. as measured by a glass capillary viscometer according to ASTM standard method D445) to about 20,000,000 centistokes. Preferably the polysiloxanes have a viscosity at 37° C. ranging from about 5 to about 5,000 centistokes, more preferably from about 5 to about 2,000 centistokes, most preferably from about 100 to about 1000 centistokes. High viscosity polysi- 

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loxanes which themselves are resistant to flowing can be effectively deposited upon the absorbent articles by such methods as, for example, emulsifying the polysiloxane in surfactant or providing the polysiloxane in solution with the aid of a solvent, such as hexane, listed for exemplary purposes only. Particular methods for applying polysiloxane emollients to absorbent articles are discussed in more detail hereinafter. 

[0094] Preferred polysiloxanes compounds for use in the present invention are disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,059,282, issued to Ampulski et al on Oct. 22, 1991, which is incor› porated herein by reference. Particularly preferred polysi› loxane compounds for use as emollients in the compositions of the present invention include phenyl-functional polym› ethylsiloxane compounds ( e.g., Dow Corning 556 Cosmetic› Grade Fluid: polyphenylmethylsiloxane) and cetyl or stearyl functionalized dimethicones such as Dow 2502 and Dow 2503 polysiloxane liquids, respectively. In addition to such substitution with phenyl-functional or alkyl groups, effective substitution may be made with amino, carboxyl, hydroxyl, ether, polyether, aldehyde, ketone, amide, ester, and thiol groups. Of these effective substituent groups, the family of groups comprising phenyl, alkyl, carboxyl, amino and hydroxyl groups are more preferred than the others; with amino and phenyl-functional groups being most preferred. 

[0095] Suitable humectants include glycerin, propylene glycol, sorbitol, trihydroxy stearin, and the like. 

[0096] When present, the amount of emollient that can be included in the composition will depend on a variety of factors, including the particular emollient involved, the skin benefits desired, the other components in the composition and like factors. The composition will typically comprise from about 10 to about 95% of the emollient. Preferably from about 20 to about 80%, and more preferably from about 40 to about 75%, by weight, of the emollient. 

[0097] Another optional, preferred component of the pro› ton donating active-containing skin compositions useful in the present invention is an agent capable of immobilizing the composition (including the proton donating active, the pre› ferred emollient and/or other skin condition/protective agents) in the desired location in or on the treated article. Because certain of the preferred emollients in the composi› tion have a plastic or liquid consistency at 20° C., they tend to flow or migrate, even when subjected to modest shear. When applied to a wearer-contacting surface or other loca› tion of an absorbent article, especially in a melted or molten state, the emollient will not remain primarily in or on the treated region. Instead, the emollient will tend to migrate and flow to undesired regions of the article. 

[0098] Specifically, if the emollient migrates into the inte› rior of the article, it can cause undesired effects on the absorbency of the article core due to the hydrophobic characteristics of many of the emollients and other skin conditioning agents used in the compositions useful in the present invention. It also means that much more emollient has to be applied to the article to get the desired therapeutic and/or protective benefits. Increasing the level of emollient not only increases the cost, but also exacerbates the unde› sirable effect on the absorbency of the article’s core and undesired transfer of composition during processing/con› verting of the treated articles. 

[0099] The immobilizing agent counteracts this tendency of the emollient to migrate or flow by keeping the emollient 

