The highest quality therapeutic Rose Quartz has a light to medium pink color with optical quality transparency, less optical Rose Quartz is still highly therapeutic but initiates a slower more gradual affect on the heart. The highest quality therapeutic Rose Quartz is from Madagascar and has a medium pink color, with no eye visible inclusions or exterior blemishes such as nicks, scratches, abrasions, fractures, or broken drill holes.
This material is extremely scarce is available only in small quantities. Most importantly, it must be free of all dye and chemical treatments.
The most common source of Rose Quartz comes from Brazil, the majority of which has a pale pink color and is semi translucent to opaque, although some high quality material can be found.
Therapeutic material from Brazil will often have a mist like pink color and may have minor internal inclusions such as internal fractures. This does do have a significant effect on the therapeutic quality. Rose Quartz from Brazil is sometimes dyed to imitate a stronger pink color that would otherwise be unnatural in nature. Rose Quartz must be free of all dye and chemical treatments. Dyed Rose Quartz has detrimental therapeutic affects on the wearer and should be avoided.
Gemstone Mass vs. Therapeutic Potency
The therapeutic affects from the mass of a gemstone can be measured in a linear fashion; the larger the therapeutic gemstone the more powerful the energetic affects. However, therapeutic potency is exponentially measured, therefore superior therapeutic quality of the same gemstone can be 100 times more powerful, even if the necklace is smaller in mass. Precious Rose Quartz, although smaller is size, is significantly more potent than the regular semi-precious Rose Quartz, and is a perfect example of the potency vs. mass phenomenon.
Precious Optical Quality vs. regular Therapeutic Rose Quartz
Optical Therapeutic quality Rose Quartz has more immediate affects than regular more mild therapeutic quality Rose Quartz. Therefore, precious Rose Quartz is recommended if you are seeking a deeper more intense emotional purification, however, because of its strength and therapeutic potency, it should be worn with care. If you have never worked with Rose Quartz, we suggest first working with the milder semi-precious Rose Quartz, and working your way up.
Common Treatments
Dye
Synthetic and Imitations
Lower quality Rose Quartz from Brazil is very common, therefore synesthetic and imitations are not as ramped in the jewelry and gemstone industry as with other gemstones, although dye is a common treatment. Synthetic Rose Quartz has been available for over 20 years where it grows hydrothermally in titanium bearing alkaline solutions.
Some Rose Quartz can be coated with chemical iron oxides, which creates unnatural colors never seen in nature The best way ensure you are working with only natural therapeutic grade Rose Quartz is to purchase your gemstones from a reputable supplier with a graduate gemologist on staff.
Gemaceuticals™ Rose Quartz Origin: Brazil and Madagascar
