Pearl has been listed as an important medicinal material in the records of famous doctors in the Three Kingdoms period. In order to win the favor of the harem beauties, Yang Di once organized a doctor too much to study various methods of pearl powder beauty, and wrote them one by one in Yang Di harem prescription, Xiangfangsan and other books.

After the Tang dynasty, the technology of pearl skin beauty reached the point of perfection. Artists in the Tang Dynasty would put pearl powder on their faces when they were acting, so as to achieve a delicate and white effect.

There is also Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica, which contains "pearl coating, which makes people moist and look good. Using both hands and feet, peeling and reversing the furnace can make the face darken and the luster turn white. "

Empress Dowager Cixi was still delicate and tender in the late Qing Dynasty, and her skin was moist and smooth, which was closely related to her long-term oral and external use of pearl powder.

Mei Lanfang, the late Peking Opera master, can still play a young girl over 60 years old, which is not unrelated to his oral use of pearl powder to regulate endocrine and beauty, and external use of skin care products mixed with pearl powder to moisturize and whiten.

The beauty of pearl skin has been recorded in Japan for a long time, which shows that "pearls can cheer up the spirit and whiten women." The Japanese used the word "whitening" to properly express the beauty effect of pearls.