I see a lot of posts and also books who recommend cleansing your crystals under running water or a water bowl. While this is an amazing way to cleanse, not all crystals are fitted to come in touch with water! Here’s a list of rocky babies who don’t take well to water and what to expect if they come in contact with it:
Will dissolve and/or lose its luster:
🔮Turquoise (unsure whether it dissolves, but it’ll fade)
🔮Obsidian (will break if the water is too hot)
🔮Malachite (toxic when it comes in touch with water!!)
🔮Pyrite (pyrite plus water and oxygen forms sulfuric acid!)
All in all - really any crystal that is soft/flaky (you can look the hardness up on google, simply by entering “How hard is [stone]”) or has iron in it will dissolve, rust or create a toxic mixture. Always be aware of what your crystal is made of before cleansing them with water. Here are some other ways to cleanse your crystals:
Cleansing methods without water:
🔮Smoke cleanse (don’t use white sage or palo santo, they’re endangered!)
🔮Put them outside in the moonlight (fullmoon works best!)
🔮Kiss them and picture a beam of light to cleanse your crystal (again, make sure it’s not toxic if you put your lips to it)
🔮Put your crystal in a bowl with hematite to eliminate bad energy, then with some clear quartz to charge it all up
🔮Use a singing bowl or music that you deem cleansing
🔮Bury it in a pot of soil
... and many more! These are the simplest, though.
I hope they helped.
DISCLAIMER:
Assuming all your gems in the first category - dissolving - are larger than your pinky’s nail and thus won’t dissolve completely, I think it’s worth mentioning that all of these changes are purely on the surface. Just because your selenite has lost its reflecting shine and feels less smooth, it doesn’t mean that its powers have faded. Technically, this could be “fixed” if it got tumbled/polished again, but this can be quite expensive, so I’d recommend to just buy a new crystal if you don’t have a super deep connection to it.
