Clam oil is an all-oily skin care product, which contains natural clam shells, which can moisturize the skin and prevent chapping. Clam oil divided the size of clams into several grades, usually the size of table tennis. As far as I can remember, a small box of clam oil only costs 70 cents. As for another popular brand, iron box vanishing cream,
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Although clam oil is cheap, it is also beautiful. Needless to say, as far as the outer packaging is concerned, its skin care effect is absolutely pleasing to the eye: the clam shell is clean, white and smooth, waxed and labeled.
Many children in the city know shells through clam oil. Girls go to school with clam oil in their pockets, and compare between classes to see who has a bigger clam shell and whose pattern stripes are more beautiful. Clam oil represents the children's yearning for happiness and satisfaction with happiness.
As for why mussel shells are used as packaging containers for skin care oil, the most fundamental reason is poverty. The mussel shell is the shell of shellfish growing along the coast, and the utilization of waste can be regarded as the invention of China people at that time.