(EN) The present invention relates to a mat, especially a car mat or a door mat. It is significant of the mat according to the present invention that it comprises a number of layers (1, 1a) where each layer (1, 1a) comprises a barrier sheet (9) and an absorbing sub-layer (10) provided on top of the barrier sheet (9), and that the layers (1, 1a) are mutually connected along the edges of the mat.