Improving Your Spray Mist Formula to Reduce Stickiness

It sounds like you've created a spray mist with many beneficial ingredients for skin hydration and balance. The sticky feeling you're experiencing is likely due to the combined effect and concentration of the moisturizing ingredients (humectants and water-soluble emollients) in your formula.

Ingredients that are most likely contributing to the sticky feel include:

• Sodium Lactate Plus (4.2%)
• MOIST24 (5.0%)
• TreMoisture™ (Trehalose) (3.0%)
• Methyl Gluceth-20 (1.0%)
• WaterSoft™ (PEG/PPG-17/6 Copolymer) (2.5%)

While these ingredients are excellent for hydration and skin feel, their total concentration in a spray mist designed to feel light might be too high.

To reduce the stickiness, consider the following adjustments:

1. Reduce Sodium Lactate Plus: This is a strong humectant and can contribute significantly to tackiness. Try reducing its concentration from 4.2% to 2.0-3.0%.
2. Reduce MOIST24: Also a potent humectant. Lowering its percentage from 5.0% to 2.0-3.0% should help reduce stickiness.
3. Consider reducing WaterSoft™: While it's a water-soluble emollient intended to improve feel, at 2.5% it might add to the tackiness. You could try reducing it slightly to 1.0-1.5%.

By reducing the total amount of these moisturizing components, the spray mist should feel much lighter and less sticky on the skin while still providing hydration benefits. Keep the percentages of TreMoisture™ and Methyl Gluceth-20 as they are, as they contribute to moisture without being the primary cause of excessive stickiness at their current levels.

The other ingredients like Calendula Extract, Ethoxydiglycol, LipidSoft™ Deo, Flora Solve™, Mild Preserved Eco™, and Lactic Acid are less likely to be the main culprits for the sticky sensation at their current usage rates.

Adjusting the concentrations of Sodium Lactate Plus, MOIST24, and potentially WaterSoft™ should help you achieve a more comfortable, non-sticky feel for your body spray mist.