The growing popularity of multifunctional products results in growth in the consumption of performance-oriented multifunctional ingredients, driving the promising specialty sector. For example, consumption of preservative boosters, such as caprylyl glycol, glyceryl caprylate, and ethylhexylglycerin, is growing at the expense of traditional preservatives as they also deliver emolliency to formulations. Similarly, PEG derivatives that act as a rheology modifier and also have emulsifying properties...