Personalized Topical Application Patch

1 . A method for providing a personalized topical application patch to a person comprising the steps of:

a) acquiring body-surface data of a person;

b) communicating the body-surface data to a design creation system which produces a digital design file corresponding to the body-surface data;

c) communicating the digital design file to a manufacturing site;

d) forming a personalized topical application patch by:

i) placing a patch substrate on a carrier;

ii) forming at least one barrier in the patch substrate to define at least two discrete regions of the patch substrate;

iii) applying one or more active benefit agents onto at least one of the discrete regions of the patch substrate; and

iv) cutting the patch substrate to a desired shape for the person and removing waste material patch substrate material;

wherein the barriers are substantially impervious to diffusion of the one or more active benefit agents;

e) packaging the personalized topical application patch; and

f) delivering the personalized topical application patch to the person.

2 . The method of claim 1 wherein the barriers are hydrophobic.

3 . The method of claim 1 wherein the patch substrate comprises a hydrogel and the step of forming the barriers comprises dehydrating the hydrogel.

4 . The method of claim 1 wherein the patch substrate comprises a hydrogel and the step of forming the barriers comprises eliminating the continuity of the hydrogel.

5 . The method of claim 1 wherein the patch substrate comprises a crosslinkable material and the step of forming the barriers comprises selectively crosslinking patch substrate material.

6 . The method of claim 1 wherein the step of forming the barriers comprises depositing physically discrete benefit agent-containing matrices onto the patch substrate.

7 . The method of claim 6 wherein the benefit agent-containing matrices comprise a high viscosity matrix material.

8 . The method of claim 7 wherein the high viscosity matrix material comprises gelatin.

9 . A personalized topical application patch comprising:

a) a patch substrate having a plurality of isolated regions;

b) one or more active benefit agents disposed at least one of the plurality of isolated regions; and

c) at least one barrier disposed between adjacent isolated regions, wherein the at least one barrier is substantially impervious to diffusion of the one or more active benefit agents.

10 . The patch of claim 9 wherein the at least one barrier is hydrophobic.

11 . The patch of claim 9 wherein the patch substrate comprises a hydrogel and the at least one barrier comprises dehydrated hydrogel.

12 . The patch of claim 9 wherein the patch substrate comprises a hydrogel and at least one barrier comprises a gap in the hydrogel.

13 . The patch of claim 9 wherein the patch substrate comprises a crosslinkable material and the at least one barrier comprises selectively crosslinking patch substrate material.

14 . The patch of claim 9 wherein the one or more active benefit agents are disposed in physically discrete benefit agent-containing matrices on the patch substrate.

15 . The patch of claim 14 wherein the benefit agent-containing matrices comprise a high viscosity matrix material.

16 . The patch of claim 15 wherein the high viscosity matrix material comprises gelatin.