Abstract: An elastic laminate having at least one layer of non-elastic material and an elastic layer including a dry-blended elastomer made from a blend of olefinic plastomers and elastomeric styrenic block copolymers and essentially free of tackifiers and fillers yields an inexpensive elastomeric blend material with adequate elastic properties for use in personal products while permitting greater flexibility and control of material to the manufacturer of thermoplastic materials for personal products.

Abstract: There is provided a method of softening a nonwoven web by wetting a nonwoven web having a starting, unstretched width and a starting cup crush value, with an aqueous solution of softening chemicals, necking the saturated nonwoven web, drying the nonwoven web at a temperature and time sufficient to remove at least 95 percent of the moisture from the nonwoven web, wherein the web has a final cup crush value which is less than 50 percent of the starting cup crush value. The method may optionally include the step of un-necking the nonwoven web to about between 80 and 125 percent of its starting, unstretched width.