Since ancient times natural gemstones are well known to have metaphysical, healing and beautifying properties. Unfortunately, in today’s market most of beauty tools, including jade rollers, are made of fake mineral stones. This way, instead of nurturing youthfulness and beauty, we damage ourselves using synthetic ones. The rare are only two types of natural jades: nephrite and jadeite. Face roller made with genuine jadeite or nephrite mineral is hard to find on the market. For this reason we would like to share few ideas on holistic alternatives to jade rollers so that you can avoid toxic synthetic chemicals landing on your skin.
Avoid Fake Jade Rollers
Today, there are thounsands of different types of jade rollers on beauty market. They come in different sizes, shapes with rollers made of various stones and in multiple of colors. The truth is, most affordable jade rollers are made of artificial or chemically treated mineral stones. If you purchase a roller for affordable price without understanding the basics of natural mineral “jade”, you are likely to receive a face roller with synthetic stone. Such face roller has no essential benefits and can even harm your skin and overall wellbeing.
Real jade roller should have a roller-head made of natural nephrite, be laboratory tested and certified as natural nephrite jade. Certified mineral jade should also have a list of minerals traces, geological features and location of origins. Indeed, every nephrite (and jadeite) is slightly different, because every mine provides different jade.
Don’t be surprised, if you will not find a genuine jade roller to buy. Most certificates they come with are fake as well, or certify other minerals, not genuine nephrite or Burma jadeite. In previous article we mentioned what “names” of jades to avoid and how to understand if your jade roller does not have a natural jadeite mineral.
Although jadeite is more valued, natural nephrite jade keeps high price in gemstone market. Using artificial rocks or dying other stones to mimic natural jades helps to maintain consumer-affordable prices and making quick money in very competitive beauty market. If your jade roller costs less than $200, it probably has a fake jade installed.
Remember, a laboratory certificate can be the answer to all questions when buying a jade face roller.
Jadeite Must be Warm
All skin care professionals and media influencers advice using jade roller when it is cold. In opposite, researches show that nephrite can emit biologically active far infrared rays and negatively charged ions when stone is heated. Using cold jade roller may help to reduce puffiness, but ice cube made of green tea or coffee can do the same thing.
For this reason, you do not need to keep your jade roller in a fridge. All essential healing and nourishing properties of natural jades are lost if face roller is cooled down. Only warmed jadeite mineral releases far infrared rays that increase skin temperature and stimulate skin microcirculation, and at the same time emit negative ions that are known to fight free radicals.
In addition, why far infrared rays and negative ions are important and what they do to our wellbeing you may find in our earlier articles about jadeite and nephrite.
Please remember, jade face rollers made of natural stones reveal their best healing properties when are used warm, not cold!
Use Natural Nephrite Stones
The key of jade roller is a stone of which a rolling part is made of. Rolling part must be made of natural jadeite or nephrite gemstone if you want to experience real properties of jade roller as women did in Ancient China.
Instead of rubbing your face with a fake face roller, you can softy glide a piece of natural mineral through your skin. Purchase a piece of smoothly finished natural jadeite of nephrite from certified sellers. Pieces of natural gemsotones are be a perfect alternatives to jade rollers. That is all you need to get all its healing properties. A piece of stone should be smooth, without any sharp edges or cuts so that you can use it as massage tool on your face and body.
Use Gua Sha Stones
One the alternatives to jade rollers, would be including Gua Sha stone in your beauty routine. What is Gua Sha? In Chinese “Gua Sha” means “scraping”, an East Asian practice when gemstone is used as a tool to apply pressure by brushing it onto the skin. Gua Sha technique is said to relieve pain, tension and increase microcirculation in various body parts. This technique is also called “coining”, “spooning”, or “scraping”.
In 2007 German researchers investigated whether Gua Sha treatment has any influence on microcirculation. According to their study, Gua Sha does increase microcirculation in areas treated with stone. It was concluded that ”there is an unidentified pain-relieving biomechanism associated with Gua Sha.” They have found, that Gua Sha increased microcirculation four times in the scraped body areas for over 7 minutes after finishing the therapy. Furthermore, a significant increase in microcirculation in same areas was still observed 25 minutes later. Actually, an increased microcirculation is what you need to maintain youthful skin.
Now, you can find Gua Sha tools made of variety of gem stones, the most popular being rose quartz and jades. Some jade roller sets come with Gua Sha tools included. The question stays the same, are these stones natural? Do sets carry gem certificates? The answer is one – obtaining a certified gemstone of your preference as a separate natural stone instead, would be the wisest decision.
As mentioned above earlier you should get a flat and smooth piece of certified mineral that mimics the shape of Gua Sha tool. Mineral composition is the most important.
Try Natural Stone Massage Therapy
You may also like to try holistic stone massage session at any holistic clinic if you are not sure yet about searching and investing into expensive piece of natural nephrite or jadeite. See how do you like stone therapy first and if you see any improvements after all.
There are plenty of holistic therapies involving crystals to choose today. Please note that stone massage may leave some bruises due to high pressure applied to deeper skin surfaces and fragile capillary. Look for experienced and customer recommended stone massage specialist to avoid violet-blue markings on the skin. It should feel as a beautifying therapy, not as an exorcism session.
Far Infrared Therapy
Instead of uncertified jade roller you may try any far infrared ray therapy or obtain far infrared device for personal use at home. Most holistic clinics and beauty centers offer far infrared therapies for recovery, beauty and health in general. You can choose far infrared sauna, nephrite massage bed, infrared masks, lights and lamps, photo rejuvenation treatments and many more. They are perfect alternatives to jade rollers as you will still experience same beautifying effects.
Infrared devices for personal use are expensive but they usually last a lifetime. Look for a device that is equipped with genuine nephrite or jadeite to optimize the advantages of far infrared light. Please consult with your health adviser if you have concerns or questions about far infrared therapies and devices.
Nephrite Charged Water
In ancient China, various kitchen utensils were made of Nephrite. Nephrite cups and bowls were used to drink water, tea, serve food on or simply store oils and liquids. It was a gem of health, revitalization and long life. Emperors used to drink a mixture of herbs and nephrite powder to become immortal. It was believed that ingesting jade powder prior to death would prevent physical body from decomposition. It was also believed, taking jade powder in a size like sesame seed helps to discharge of waste material. Water from jade cup was believed to help kidneys. In traditional Chinese medicine jade mineral is a potent medicine (oral or topical) for thousands of years.
In present times, we are still searching for miraculous elixirs of immortality, good health and continuous youthful beauty. As more people start turning into alternative medicine, crystal charged water slowly gains its popularity. In 2007, a German company VitaJuwel started producing gem vials and various gem-based water purification products. They are very stylish and of high quality. Gem elixir water is reborn!
Purifying water with precious stones has ancient roots and is still practiced in holistic therapies. It is believed that when gemstone or crystal is dipped into pure water and left there for some time, it infuses water with its vibration. When we drink it, crystal elixir works through changing and raising our vibrational frequency to frequency of healthy status.
Inventor Jun-Han Kim holds European patent on “Matrix containing nephrite jade powder as a main component”. The author states that molding material containing nephrite can be beneficial to human, animal and plant health. It can improve the quality of water and provide a wide range of health benefits. Having in mind nephrite’s mineral composition and its ability to conduct far infrared rays, it may become a revolutionary invention. Imagine drinking water from a glass jar that is made with nephrite powder.
In 2005, Journal of Physiology & Pathology in Korean Medicine, published in vivo studies stating that Nephrite water (or powder) has better anti-inflammatory properties than indomethacin and without any side effects.
Remember, you can make your own nephrite gem elixir at home. No need to spend your money for expensive “innovative nephrite infused” health and beauty products. Just drop a natural nephrite mineral in your drinking water.
Cosmetics with Nephrite Powder
Furthermore, Nephrite water can be used as a beautifying ingredient of cosmetics. According to Korean patent, nephrite powder and nephrite water in cosmetic products help to maintain moisture in the skin, soothes the skin, helps to fight free radicals and increases blood circulation in the skin.
Beauty products containing nephrite powder or nephrite water will keep your skin healthy and beautiful. Trace minerals, far infrared radiation and negative ions emitted from jade gem do a really good job on human skin. In this case, using face sprays of water purified by or infused by nephrite jade would be a wonderful beautifying practice.
Jadeite Jade Saunas
When talking about health benefits of jadeite jade especially when used along with water, it’s best healing properties reveal when heated up to about 100C in humid conditions. Jadeite jade can withstand much higher temperature than nephrite. Most of the Jadeite jade comes from Russia where therapeutic health benefits of this mineral are known and practiced for ages. Here Jadeite mineral is used in traditional wet and dry saunas.
Throw water over heated jadeite rocks, water diffuses and a pleasant smell of pure and clean air quickly spreads. Such air eases breathing and inhibits relaxation. In humid saunas, microelements of jade are absorbed by your skin and through your breath. When heated, jadeite enriches water with metasilicic acid that is beneficial to the skin.
As earlier mentioned warmed jadeite emits far infrared rays and negative ions that play major role in regeneration of human body. Dry saunas such as infrared jade saunas improve skin by cleansing the pores, alleviate chronic health conditions, stimulate lymphatic circulation, increase cardiovascular conditioning, relieves pain, detoxifies and does much more to your body.
Summing up
Today, most affordable jade rollers are chemically treated and made of synthetic stones. You don’t want such toxins attacking your delicate face skin and body.
When you are considering alternatives to jade rollers, look for a scientific information about nephrite and jadeite jade in particular. Talking in metaphysical language, both nephrite and jadeite gemstones are believed being beneficial in healing mind and soul.
Jadeites are capable to emit energy in the far infra-red wavelengths that increase microcirculation in skin. There is scientific evidence that if nephrite or jadeite warms up it starts emitting negative ions. Therefore, steam from jadeite has a skin firming and body rejuvenating effect.
When you come face to face with natural minerals and their healing and beautifying powers, only you can make your personal choice to believe it or not, use it or not.
Have in mind, research teams already confirmed nephrite and jadeite having physical healing properties to body. After all, no doubt the above mentioned holistic alternatives to jade rollers benefit your physical body and make your skin look younger.
