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deetea
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Thu Oct 14, 2004 10:03 pm  |
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.
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Fri Oct 15, 2004 10:28 am |
| I found your post quite interesting. What does one find these properties in & where could quality items be found? I think that the Lamas website has a pearl body moisturizer but I don't know how good it is. |
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Fri Oct 15, 2004 8:18 pm |
is there a link between pearl powder and mercury? i read a list a few months back of skin whitening creams with pearl powder with mercury content - very dangerous. I just found the list:
http://www.hgtech.com/Data/Other/Hg%20Cream.htm |
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Mabsy
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Sat Oct 16, 2004 4:53 am |
| Interesting. A few years ago I was given a jar of pearl powder as a gift. I don't know how much it was but I was told by my "in-the-know" friends that is was really expensive. I used this powder for a few months until I ran out. I didn't ingest it but I used it much like I now use the Dermalogica Microfoliant. Thinking back, I don't think I see much of a difference between the effect of the two products. Except that the pearl powder didn't really help out with my blackheads. Both made my skin bright and soft. |
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deetea
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Mon Oct 18, 2004 2:23 am |
| In fact, there are too many researches about pearl powder in China and Japan and Korea. It's really effective. You many find more information about pearl powder onwww.karipearls.com. They do have very detailed instroduction. Pearl powder is very popular in China. Maybe it will be so in other places too. |
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deetea
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Mon Oct 18, 2004 2:57 am |
This could be a problem, but it depends on which brand pearl powder you choose.
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is there a link between pearl powder and mercury? i read a list a few months back of skin whitening creams with pearl powder with mercury content - very dangerous. I just found the list:
http://www.hgtech.com/Data/Other/Hg%20Cream.htm |
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