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  Ingredients to reduce sticky feel

  Posted by raiyana on October 10, 2019 at 6:19 am

  Hi all! 
  What ingredients can we use in a waterbased leave on product to reduce the stickiness of the product other than silicones? I found even 2% glycerin leaves a sticky feel on the skin.

  Thank you.

  bil7 replied 5 years, 4 months ago 5 Members · 4 Replies
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  crillz

  Member

  October 10, 2019 at 9:51 am

  really need to see the full list of ingredients to help properly.

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  MarkBroussard

  Professional Chemist / Formulator

  October 10, 2019 at 11:00 am

  @raiyana:

  Your best approach is to avoid Glycerin (and Panthenol) completely is water-based toner-type products.  It will be sticky even at 1% Glycerin if your product format is a Toner.

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  chemicalmatt

  Member

  October 11, 2019 at 4:34 pm

  Adding butylene glycol 1:4 with glycerin t any level of use will mitigate the tackiness you are reporting - if glycerin is the culprit. Without knowing the other ingredients, cannot say for sure. Got honey in there too?

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  bil7

  Member

  October 19, 2019 at 9:13 pm

  Get isopropyl myristate works better reduce sticking effect

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