Clam oil is a popular moisturizer, which is a pure oil moisturizer formulated with a variety of mineral and vegetable oils. Using it, in the cold and dry season, for often exposed to the cold wind of the skin, is able to play a very good protective role, it can also prevent and control the skin frostbite as well as the burning of the scorching sun. Packaging can be utilized in the waste shells of seafood clams, clam oil depending on the size of the clams in several grades, generally the size of a ping-pong ball, coastal places have shell sources, manufacturing process and equipment is simple, less investment.
The most popular skin care products, the most popular seems to be only clam oil. At that time, the northern winter cold and dry, people's ambiguous wear simple, so a severe winter, frozen hands and feet skin blowing chapped phenomenon is commonplace, hand and face blowing chapped and cracked, no other way to wipe on the point of clam oil, the right as a skin care and beauty. Clam oil, although inexpensive, but also beautiful, needless to say that its skin care benefits, only in terms of packaging, absolutely pleasing to the eye: clam shell complete clean, white and smooth, coated with wax, labeled with trademarks. Many children in the city were introduced to clamshells through clam oil, and girls went to school with clam oil in their pockets, comparing them with each other between classes to see whose clam shells were bigger and more beautifully patterned and striped. Clam oil represents the children's desire for beauty and the satisfaction of happiness in those days.
As for why clam shells were used as packaging containers for skin care oil, perhaps the most fundamental reason was poverty. Clam shells are shells of shellfish that grow along the coast, and utilizing them for waste is considered an invention of the country at the time. Clam shells as packaging is a bit strange, from its selection and classification, processing to filling raw materials, packaging and transportation, how many hours of work procedures, how many people's hard work. Perhaps because of the tight raw materials at the time, coupled with the low value of labor, which made it possible to make clam oil into people's daily lives.
If you don't count the economy, clam oil is really an affordable and environmentally friendly skin care product, which has made a special contribution to people in times of poverty.