<P> The English name reflects the historic use of the material for cleaning or "fulling" wool by textile workers called "fullers". In past centuries, fullers kneaded fuller's earth and water into woollen cloth to absorb lanolin, oils, and other greasy impurities as part of the cloth finishing process . </P> <P> Fuller's Earth is also known by the following other names: </P> <Ul> <Li> "Bleaching clay", probably because fulling whitened the cloth . </Li> <Li> "Whitening clay", particularly when used to treat facial pigmentation, such as melasma . </Li> <Li> "Multani mitti", or "mud from Multan" (city in Pakistan), in ancient India it was used in cosmetics . </Li> </Ul> <Li> "Bleaching clay", probably because fulling whitened the cloth . </Li>

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