Abstract: The invention concerns a packaging bag (3), made of plastic sheeting and with a carrying handle (1), for personal-hygiene articles, in particular nappies. The one-piece sheet (8) is closed by means of longitudinal and transverse welds (18, 19) to form a bag (3) having a front (15), a back (16), two ends (11), a bottom (14) and a top (5) with an M-shaped top fold. When full, the bag (3) assumes a parallelepipidal shape. The carrying handle (1) is designed as a flat, one-piece, x-shaped strap (2) which is slit at each end over part of its length. The slit ends of the strap (2) are each welded to the inside of the M-shaped top fold where it is drawn in to form a triangle (10) when the bag is full and hence the parallelepipidal in shape.