You can charge your crystals once a week if you use them all the time. If you are wearing them or if you only use them infrequently, they can be charged once a month or at a minimum once a quarter. Wearing a crystal causes some intermittent and unplanned cleansing and charging, but it is important to be deliberate about cleansing and charging if you want to get everything you can out of them.

As soon as you get a crystal, you'll want to cleanse it. This could be as simple as washing it with warm water, putting it out under a full moon, or burning sacred herbs (like sage, palo santo or sweet grass) all around it. Then you'll want to charge it with the methods above. Then it's ready to go!

Crystals that are very porous or have water as a major part of their chemical make up should not go into water. Additionally any crystal with a Mohs hardness scale of 5 or less should not be submerged.

The following is a short list of crystals that in their raw form should have limited water exposure.

Fluorite (salt water), Selenite, Apophyllite, Tangerine Quartz, Gypsum, Chrysocolla, Lepidolite, Opal, Angelite, Azurite, Apatite, Halite, Malachite, Turquoise, Ulexite, Labradorite, Celestite, Pyrite, Hematite.

Some crystals can degenerate after continued exposure to water or being submerged for a long time, while some will just lose their shine or their fire (like Opal).

The crystals we use for our jewelry are polished, creating a protective barrier against water exposure. However, Opal and Angelite should still have limited exposure. We always recommend it's always best to do your own research on your particular crystal.

The following crystals shouldn't be exposed to direct sunlight for more than a couple hours due to the fact that sunlight can cause them to fade, crack, or lose part of the moisture content that makes them beautiful.

Fluorite, Opal, Turquoise, Aquamarine, Aquamarine, Sapphire, Kunzite, Morganite, Emerald, & Amber.

It's best to know the energetic healing properties of each stone that you wear. If their properties are in conflict, such as a calming Howlite and an energizing Black Spinel, they can cancel each other out.

Here are a two examples of crystal combinations that you should avoid:

+ Clear Quartz and the wrong crystal: Clear Quartz is an amplifying crystal and will amplify anything you pair with it, so make sure the energy of the second stone is something you want amplified.

+ Tiger Eye and Smoky Quartz: Tiger Eye gives you confidence and Smoky Quartz protects empathic people and works as a release valve. One brings energy swirling around you while the other repels it. 

As always, please do your own research to make sure the crystals you are pairing are complimentary.

Surprisingly the most powerful crystal is Quartz Crystal, which includes any type of Quartz: Rose Quartz, Citrine, Amethyst, Agate, Citrine, etc. It's the most readily available crystal on the earth. If we tap into the science of the strength inside quartz you'll see it has all three markers of a powerful crystal.

1. It has piezoelectricity, which means it produces voltage when pressurized. 

2. It has pyroelectricity, which means it produces voltage when heated or cooled.

3. It has triboluminescence, which means it produces flashes of light on the inside when it is struck.

Quartz is the only type of crystal has all three of these incredibly powerful properties and is therefore considered the most powerful crystal to wear.