This also acts like a dry shampoo, with rice starch to absorb dirt and oil.

Initially, wax and even rice starch were used for printing on fabrics.

They are also suitable for cooking brown rice (which contains oils and bran fiber that cook differently from pure white rice starch).

In 1881, rice starch, which was important for ironing clothes started to be produced.

Often gums and resins, e.g. gum arabic, red gum, guar gum, copal, carboxymethyl cellulose, nitrocellulose, rice starch, cornstarch, shellac, dextrin.