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 How would you feel when you find real pearls from edible oysters? Nice isn’t it? But actually edible oysters are not only use for food on the table, it’s also used on making jewelry

Black Pearls and other pearls produced using mussels , clams and oysters, actually oysters produce pearls no matter it’s in a fresh water or saltwater, but the clams and mussels rarely produce the pearls.

The idea that pearls are produced from sand intruding into the shell of an oyster is false. Sand is an inorganic material while pearls are formed by organic materials that are caught inside the oyster. As a defense mechanism, the oyster wraps the organic material with a substance called nacre, resulting to what is known as mother of pearl.

Most people believe that pearls should have an imperfect form since they are products of nature. However, there are those that are formed perfectly and these are considered very valuable pearls. Unlike the common belief that pearls are usually white, pearls come in various colors like black, green, red and even blue. Different-colored pearls can be found all over the world but only the South Pacific has produced black pearls.

You can wait for the natural pearls to occurrence, but actually that takes along time, so instead of that some people culture Black pearls, Red pearls and other kinds of pearls in the same way they are naturally formed, and they almost can product the same organic materials, but looking for the prices, the naturals pearls are for sure more expensive than the cultured ones because of their rarity.

Among the kinds of pearls are cultured pearls either in saltwater or freshwater; South Sea pearls that are produced by the silver lipped oysters are rare pearls that are cultured in Australia and are usually very large; South Sea pearls produced by golden lipped oysters and are cultured in Indonesia and Tahitian pearls or black pearls that are produced by black lipped oysters and are cultured in Cook Islands or in the French Polynesia.

So how can one determine if a pearl is real or an imitation? Real pearls tend to feel sandy when rubbed along the edge of the front teeth while imitation pearls fell smooth.

Aside from the kinds of oyster from which pearls are produced, the quality of pearls is determined according to their luster or shine. Thick nacres that have been left in the water longer are generally shinier.  The shape of a pearl is also important and the rounder the pearl, the better. The larger the pearl, the rarer they are and the more expensive.

Pearls as we have said before that it can be used as pieces of jewelry specially the Black Pearls, and even in the cosmetics, and looking to the international market the pearls that are used in cosmetics are the most exported pearls, specially to China and the United States of America.

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