Abstract: Ocean contains rich natural resources. sea cucumber, as a kind of food and medicinal materials, which has a high health care function and medicinal value. Holothurian saponins is a secondary metabolites inside the sea cucumber, and has a broad range of physiologic and pharmacologic activity, therefore it possess enormous potential application value. This paper focuses on the recent studies of the characteristics of holothurian saponins home and aborad, and do some summarizes briefly to provide a detailed sea cucumber saponins of reference material for further research.