Description
Item name: indian fullers earth
Botanical name : attapulgite, hydrous magnesium aluminum silicate, Fuller’s earth, palygorskite, clay
Fuller’s earth is the most common spelling today, but both fullers earth and fullers’ earth remain in wide use
Fuller’s earth is also known by the following other names:
Bleaching clay, probably because fulling whitened the cloth.
Whitening clay, particularly when used to treat facial pigmentation, such as melasma.
Multani mitti (Hindustani: ملتانی مِٹّی, मुल्तानी मिट्टी; transl. ’clay of Multan’), widely used in the Indian subcontinent in cosmetics. The name comes from the city of Multan, in modern-day Pakistan, the area of its origin.
