Why Pearl Powder?

　　Pearl is secreted by pearl shells with their whole lives. In the thousands of years of Chinese traditional medical history, pearl has been researched, used and recorded all the time. Modern analysis revealed that pearl contains 15~18 amino acids, over 20 microelements (including Zn, Ca, Mg, P, Fe etc.), several types of proteins and short peptides, EGF and some other active factors.

　　Effects of pearl were recorded by 19 traditional Chinese medical books, including the famous Pen-ts'ao Kan-mu, which was written by Li Shizhen (1518~1593) in Ming Dynasty and renowned in the world. It's recorded In volume 64 of Pen-ts'ao Kan-mu:

　　Pearl, tastes salty and sweet, cold, nonpoisonous. Can tranquilize the nerve and brighten the eyes. Applied in the face, it makes skin softer and brighter; applied in hands and feet, it smoothens the skin. The other functions are: expelling sputum, reducing speckles, stopping diarrhea and orphan's scares & fever, stopping turbid spermatorrhea, treating whelk, detoxification.

　　The thousands of year’s experiences have proved the above descriptions. Scarce of the beauty formulations come down do not use pearl powder.Modern researches deepened studies of the principles of pearl's medical effects. These researches, including composition analysis, pharmacology and effectiveness experiments, provided affluent evidences for the traditional records and showed that:

　　The effective components of pearl powder engage in metabolism the human body by promoting growth of new cells, supplying nutrients to skin (thus to make skin softer and smoother). Pearl powder can improve the activity of SOD, restrain synthesis of melanin (thus to make skin brighter). And because SOD eliminates free radicals, skin aging and wrinkles thus can be partially prevented. Natural pearl powder can also tranquilize nerves, improve sleep and dissipate fatigue.

　　By participating in DNA metabolism, pearl powder can accelerate heal of trauma, faucitis, gastric ulcer, duodenal ulcer and stop bleeding, Some other researches have shown that pearl powder has effects in resisting aging, radiation & cancer and adjusting immunity.