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Mintel experts track the trending ingredients and new product launches, spotlight the trends affecting the market and its future growth. In this episode, we explore sodium polyglutamate.

This colorless, odorless, transparent, and soft gel-like substance possesses a unique three-dimensional spatial structure, offering multiple benefits such as whitening, moisturizing and anti-wrinkle, and thus has broad potential for application in functional beauty products.

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