Singapore Women's Weekly

Women Changing The Face of Beauty

Marie Amiand

of Lu Ming Tang

The French skincare line was created and cultivated in China by French native Marie Amiand,who was diagnosed with heavy metal poisoning after long-term exposure to city pollution in Shanghai and Hong Kong where she was based.A doctor who treated her recommended that she drink Chinese tea,and she learnt that longjing – a tea produced in the tea valley near the former imperial city of Hangzhou – is very concentrated in polyphenol,one of the most powerful antioxidants in nature.

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