What are pearls made of?

Pearls are hard, rounded products produced by mollusks, mainly oysters.

The color of a pearl is related to the type of mother-of-pearl, and different mother-of-pearls secrete different colors of "natural pigments". For example, the mother shell of the South Seas gold pearl is the gold lip shell, its edge part is gold, so it can produce gold pearl; black pearl mother shell is the black butterfly shell, its color is gray - black, and the halo color is very strong, so it can produce a lot of color variations.

Pearl care methods:

1, avoid acidic, alkaline substances

In order to avoid letting the pearl quickly yellow and lose luster, avoid touching the acidic, alkaline substances is the key, in daily life, when wearing pearl jewelry, do not make up, because in the application of cosmetics, it is inevitable to touch the Pearl jewelry, it is easy to cause pearl jewelry to lose luster or yellowing.

2, avoid water

Many people think that the pearl is the product of the mussel, the mussel and live in the water, think the pearl should be able to soak, in fact, this is wrong. Pearl jewelry soak water will appear in two situations, the first, water can enter the beads of small holes, not only difficult to wipe dry, may also make the inside of the fermentation, the bead line may also turn green. The second, if the water penetrates into the pearl jewelry will cause the pearl bead layer detachment, damage to the pearl.

3, fumes

Wearing pearl jewelry can not touch the fumes, because the surface of the pearl has tiny pores, if the fumes are inhaled into these small pores inside, it will make the pearl yellow, so fumes are prohibited to touch.

4, pay attention to custody

Wearing pearl jewelry must not be put together with other jewelry, because the pearl surface layer is easily scratched, and other jewelry together, easy to friction occurs, resulting in a lot of scratches on the surface of the pearl.