By exploring their beauty and monitoring their effects that they cause on their users we can say without any doubt, gemstones are, indeed, one of great gifts of nature. Each and every stone has its unique characteristics and unmatched beauty. But beauty requires care otherwise it changes into ugliness with the vagaries of weather. Just like other things gemstones also require proper care and cleaning to keep their luster and sparkle in their natural way for centuries.

Many people believe that natural gemstones and crystals have specific vibrations that prove beneficial as well as harmful for the users. We get affected physically, spiritually and emotionally because of the associated vibration of these gemstones. These gemstones emit positive as well as negative energy and besides our own traits, the surrounding environment also plays an important role in the flow of these positive and negative energies. So, cleaning is quite important to provide a good atmosphere to these gemstones.

To offer a right cleaning to your gemstone jewelry and other items, it is essential to use safe ways to clean and preserve these gemstones.

You must use a small children's toothbrush to clean any dirt on your gemstone.

Store your gemstones at such a place where they don't rub to other gemstones and metals.

To prevent from breaking and crumbling, don't soak you're your soft gemstones. Garnet, amber, jade, pearls and pyrite are some of these soft gemstones.

Many gemstones are prone to high temperature and they need to be avoided from high temperature.

Use a soft pouch when these gemstones are not in use.

It is said that many chemical cleaners may harm some gemstones as they are natural objects.

Use salt and water to clean and purify your gemstones as salt and water solution is considered to absorb all the negative energies from the gemstone and the sea salt is the best option for it.

Another traditional method that has been used by Native Americans Shamans is a smoke of specific herbs that helps to clean the negative energies of the gemstones and enhance its positive energy manifold.

But these two given last methods are used to clean the negative energies and enhance the positive effects and they can spoil the beauty of some gemstones if they are not used by considering the natural substance of the gemstones.