Pearl powder is a finely ground powder from real pearls and has long been regarded as a traditional Chinese medicine of high reputation. According to Chinese medical literature, the use of pearl powder as a top tonic medicine for treating diseases and skin care cosmetics can be traced far back to over two thousand years ago. Because of its rarity and magic multifunctional properties in ancient China, pearl powder had been the most sought-after and expensive Chinese medicine but only affordable by royal families, high class officers or celebrities. With the advent of technology for cultivating pearls in fresh water, China has become the largest producer of pearls and pearl powder in the world. Both oral administration and topical application of pearl powder will:
• Improve the skin nutrition and metabolism, promote the proliferation of healthy new cells, retain the water in epidermal layer, purge brown spots and other dark freckles in skin, thus reduce wrinkles and make the skin whiter, finer, smoother, softer and more radiant, delicate to rejuvenate the appearance of skin. By increasing the activities of some antioxidant enzymes, pearl powder can prevent the normal cells from being damaged by endogenous free radicals or peroxides and thus prevent the appearance of senile patches and delay the skin aging. It has long been the most important ingredient in the expensive skin care products for ancient Chinese royal families to keep their skin youthfully tender looking.
• Smoothen skin caused by common inflammatory skin diseases such as acne, eczema, rashes.
• Inhibit local inflammation, release the local pain, accelerate wound healing, particularly effective for chronic refractory wounds. In traditional Chinese medicine terminology, pearl powder has cooling and antimicrobial properties, which will antagonize the inflammatory heat and redness.
• Improve visual sight for weak eyes.
