Jewelry making
Pearl, being a symbol of unblemished perfection, is the queen of all gems for its elegance, natural beauty and forever attraction. Unlike other gemstones, pearls can be directly used in jewelry making. They are often used to make rings, bracelets, pendants, bangles and pearl Wholesale beads inserted in other gemstones. Pearl jewelry can be extremely expensive and relatively cheap too. Pearls mainly fall into two types: cultured ones and natural ones. It’s self-evident that natural ones are much dealer than cultured ones. The pearls come in a wide range of colors and shades consisting of red, white, ice cream white, purple, pink, brown, and black and so on. All kinds of shapes are available in the market varying from round, semi-round, oval, to teardrop, button and circled etc. Pearl jewelry wins great popularity in the market for it can immediately increase the femininity, elegance of a woman with a relatively low price.
Medicinal use
Pearls have been used in medicinal purposes since 2,000 years ago in China. In ancient times, pearls were crushed in powder. At present, pearl powder and capsule are available. Pearls can be taken orally or used externally. With respect to internal taken, it can bring five main advantages for people. First, it can increase immunity. Pearl powder contains as many as eighteen amino-acids including leucine, methionine, and lactamic acid and so on, while amino-acids are the necessary elements for one’s immunity. Second, the main component of pearls is calcium which makes up 90%-92% of pearls. The calcium is natural and actively absorbed. Third, it can make people young forever. Pearls contain trace elements like Manganese, copper and zinc which are the basic components of SOD preventing aging of skin. Fourth, taking pearls is good for one’s sleep. Fifth, it can also help clearing heat and detoxicating. As for the external use, it’s mainly for the beauty purpose. It’s is known to all that pearl powder can whiten skin, remove acne, get rid of blackhead and speckles. What’s more, it plays a great roll in recover from cut wound and scald. This is also the reason why women are particularly fond of pearls.
Accessories
Due to its beauty and practicality, pearls are also used as accessories on many objects. We can often see that clothes, hair accessories, door curtains are embellished with pearls. With the fashion updating, pearls are used as a fashion statement on many other things such as knife hilts, cigarette holders, pearls-handled guns which fully shows personality, taste and wealth to some degree.
These are the main three uses of pearls. Of course, there are many other uses like religion offerings in somewhere especially in sea area. All in all, pearls are gifts endowed by the nature. Human beings fully make use of pearls to bring beauty, health and happiness to people’s life.