In a personal care article for contact with human skin, a non-woven substrateof the article has a longitudinal direction, a transverse direction and at leastone skin-contact surface. A plurality of surface features is disposed on theat least one skin-contact surface in a sinusoidal wave-form along at least oneof the longitudinal direction and the transverse direction of the substrate.The surface features have a height that generally defines an amplitude of thesinusoidal wave- form, and are spaced from each other a spatial distance. Thisspatial distance is at least in part a function of a movement speed at which thearticle is to be moved relative to the skin while in contact therewith. In one methodof making such a substrate, the movement speed and a temporal frequency are selectedand used to determine the spacing between surface features on the skin-contactsurface of the substrate.
