Hi Rebekah, welcome to the world of crystals!
In general, the harder stones are okay in salt water. However, if they are polished, I would still be careful because after a while the salt can wear off the polish and leave your stone dull and matte textured instead. Just eliminate the salt aspect and your harder polished stones will be just fine.
By harder stones I mean anything with a Mohs Scale of Hardness of 6 or above. To find out your Mohs Scale of your stone, you can search on google for “quartz mohs scale of hardness”, “opal mohs scale of hardness”, etc.
Quartz, Rose Quartz and Tigers Eye are all in the same family and have a hardness of 7.
Jade is a 6.5-7 on the scale, so this is up to your discretion, depending on the piece.
Opal ranges from 5.5-6.5 and is easily susceptible to scratches so I would avoid salt water with this stone.
Everything can be placed in sunlight for charging, but you don’t want prolonged direct sunlight if you are worried about fading. If you have clear Quartz, it obviously won’t fade, but if you have a deep pink Rose Quartz, it may. To reiterate, I am speaking specifically about prolonged sunlight. So, if the crystal sits in your windowsill a few days a month, you won’t see a difference in color. Or if it lives in a window that only gets indirect light, it will be fine as well.
Here are some good crystal books that we have in our personal collection:
Crystal Therapy – Doreeen Virtue
Crystal User’s Handbook – Judy Hall
Crystal Bible – Judy Hall
Love is in the Earth – Melody
Healing Crystals and Gemstones – Dr Flora Peschek-Bohmer
The Crystal Healer – Philip Permintt
Crystal, Colour and chakra healing – sue and simon lilly
Unfortunately, we have yet to come across a complete comprehensive guide on crystal healing. And, as you read each of these books, you’ll notice many discrepancies. Everyone has a different point of view and in the end you must make up your own mind. Each one of us vibrates at a different energy level, which is what makes you unique from everyone else in the world that ever was.
If you need help following your intuition, I recommend working on the Third Eye Chakra (and all the others as well): https://satincrystals.com/pages/chakra-guide
I hope this leads you on the right path, Rebekah.
I am standing by if you need additional guidance.
Sincerely,
Sheila Satin
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