Improved
skin-
adhesive compositions for bonding a substrate, such as an absorbent article, to
skin are disclosed. More particularly, the
skin-
adhesive composition has an improved, yet gentle, adhesion to the skin of a user, while maintaining strong, effective bonding to various inanimate, non-skin substrates. In one embodiment, the skin-
adhesive composition can provide one or more skin benefit agents to the user. The skin-adhesive composition may applied to an absorbent article, such as a panty-liner,
sanitary napkin, or an incontinence article, for directly adhering the article to the skin of a user.