tragacanth in English

noun
1
a white or reddish plant gum used in the food, textile, and pharmaceutical industries.
So I find the idea of ‘bleaching’ your skin - using a brew of tragacanth , lavender water, glycerine, boric acid, peroxide and distilled water - pretty scary.

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1. Additionally, ceresin, gum tragacanth, and methyl cellulose are regular ingredients and serve as stiffeners.

2. Gum tragacanth is another herbal gum that is used to stiffen calico and crepe, as well as hair.

3. Apart from Astragalus it is also known as Huang chi, Huang qi, Milk vetch, Radix Astragali, locoweed, goat’s thorn, green dragon, gum dragon, gummi tragacanthae, hog gum, membranous milk vetch, Syrian tragacanth, tragacanth, Mongolian Milk, Ogi, Phaca membranacea, Radix Astragalus, Réglisse Bâtarde and Réglisse Sauvage.

4. This test distinguishes alginic acid from acacia gum, sodium carboxymethyl cellulose, carboxymethyl starch, carrageenan, gelatin, gum ghatti, karaya gum, locust bean gum, methyl cellulose and tragacanth gum.