Crystals appearance - Salt

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In a message dated 2/6/2007 6:08:33 PM Eastern Standard Time,

mauiskye1 writes:

 

Because of it's chemical properties salt can be a great cleansing tool, but

wanted to comment that although sea salt and salt water are often recommended

for clearing crystals it is important to remember that salt is drying and

should be rinsed off after clearing.

 

 

In addition ... salt is a corrosive.

 

From personal experience with a Smokey quartz crystal that I had used salt

to cleanse the crystal (in my early crystal years), I have quit using salt as a

cleansing method. The salt literally ate a channel into the center of the

Smokey point. This crystal is about 2 1/2 inches long and had been crystal

clear. It is now pitted on one of the termination faces and cloudy (inside

pitting) where the salt ate away at it. Rather impressive when you think about

quartz being a seven on the MOHs hardness scale but for me also a hard lesson

in

using non-caustic means of cleansing crystals. If you think about salt with

another mineral aluminum.... pots and pans made from aluminum usually instruct

not to use salt in them or acids (such as tomatoes) due to the corrosive

actions from the chemical reaction that occurs, both will cause pitting and

discoloration. When thinking in these terms, I personally think and feel, " Why

would I want to subject my crystals to this? "

 

I will however concede that if lived near an ocean of salt water such as

Skye does, where there is much more energy at work then just the salt water, I

would (with caution) use the salt water from the ocean for cleansing purposes

and as she mention thoroughly rinse the salt off afterwards.

 

Blessigns to your eve all.

ReNau

 

 

 

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Hello All,

 

Thank you very much for the information.

I normally use dry sea salt in a bowl and afterwards rinse off the

crystals. The used sea salt goes down in the drain under running

water.Sometimes I put them under sun light or around burning candle.

 

Namaste

A.

 

 

 

, renaumoon wrote:

>

>

> In a message dated 2/6/2007 6:08:33 PM Eastern Standard Time,

> mauiskye1 writes:

>

> Because of it's chemical properties salt can be a great cleansing

tool, but

> wanted to comment that although sea salt and salt water are often

recommended

> for clearing crystals it is important to remember that salt is

drying and

> should be rinsed off after clearing.

>

>

> In addition ... salt is a corrosive.

>

> From personal experience with a Smokey quartz crystal that I had

used salt

> to cleanse the crystal (in my early crystal years), I have quit

using salt as a

> cleansing method. The salt literally ate a channel into the center

of the

> Smokey point. This crystal is about 2 1/2 inches long and had been

crystal

> clear. It is now pitted on one of the termination faces and cloudy

(inside

> pitting) where the salt ate away at it. Rather impressive when you

think about

> quartz being a seven on the MOHs hardness scale but for me also a

hard lesson in

> using non-caustic means of cleansing crystals. If you think about

salt with

> another mineral aluminum.... pots and pans made from aluminum

usually instruct

> not to use salt in them or acids (such as tomatoes) due to the

corrosive

> actions from the chemical reaction that occurs, both will cause

pitting and

> discoloration. When thinking in these terms, I personally think

and feel, " Why

> would I want to subject my crystals to this? "

>

> I will however concede that if lived near an ocean of salt water

such as

> Skye does, where there is much more energy at work then just the

salt water, I

> would (with caution) use the salt water from the ocean for

cleansing purposes

> and as she mention thoroughly rinse the salt off afterwards.

>

> Blessigns to your eve all.

> ReNau

>

>

>