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Why your favourite face cream will soon be made of potatoes
In the future the humble potato could produce the basis for a tube of your favourite shower gel or face cream. Anna Hill hears how scientists in Bath, Exeter and Norwich are working together to find out how well potato starches could lend themselves to what's known as 'gelation' - or making a gel.
First broadcast on Farming Today, 21 June 2016.
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