Fiddlestix said

Fiddlerman said
Try using some hand lotion that gets absorbed into your skin. That might help you with the sticky string sound when lifting your fingers and avoid dryness and future calluses.

Not trying to be argumentative, but I have to question the "hand lotion" solution to the problem.

Having been a carpenter for 42 years and working outside most of the time, the hand's tend to get pretty dry, rough and cracked. I have tried using various kind's of hand lotion which actually did soak into the skin, you couldn't feel it, until you began to perspire, then the skin excreted the lotion back out.

My thinking is that while playing, your hand's may tend to sweat / perspire bringing the lotion back to the surface transfering to the string's. If this happen's, the lotion can get absorbed into the micro winding's of the string's, deadning the sound of a clean string.

Wiping the string's with a dry cloth probably won't remove the hidden "crud" absorbed into the string's, therefore dust can be attracted to string's adding to the  tonal problem.

My thought's only and I'm probably wrong again on this topic.

I've had similar experience Fiddlestix, I've used stuff that would actually mess me up and this is why I hesitate to name a lotion. I finally found one in Sweden that didn't feel like I had any lotion on at all plus didn't cause my hands to perspire. This stuff was perfect when my hands were dry and always set the moisture in my hands to exactly what I needed to play well. I wish I knew what it was made of.
The right lotion will really help the player that needs it.