The most common gums in skin-care products are guar gum, acacia gum, xanthan gum, and locust-bean gum. Gums are typically harmless and safe to use in cosmetics. Gums are often used for enhancing or ...

It comes from a cluster bean called Cyamopsis tetragonoloba, and it belongs to the legume family. The seeds are broken and separated into parts. The part referred to as the “undehusked guar split” is ...

A little-known plant that has been an ingredient in foods for decades has taken on outsize importance in the fracking world over the past few years – and it has created huge swings in its commodity ...

Guar gum is added to the fracking mixture to thicken water into a gel so it can carry sand deep into the cracks.

The guar bean grown in the northern India state of Rajasthan is now a key element in the chemical cocktail used to frack wells, the technology that has prompted the oil and gas boom sweeping across ...

A little bean called guar, which in Hindi means “cow food,” has the world’s largest oil and gas producers fretting over profit margins. The reason is simple. In gum form, guar is the thickening agent ...