Unveiling the Elegance of June’s Birthstone: The Timeless Pearl

Pearls are the most mysterious and unusual gemstone. The process of its formation is unique. Any foreign substance that gets into the shell – the smallest speck of dust or parasite – is doomed.

Using the mechanisms of formation of the shell itself, the mollusk envelops the uninvited guest with mother-of-pearl layer by layer, creating a real jewel.

In the first half of the 20th century, a huge pearl was found near the Philippines, similar in shape and size to an adult’s head. The weight of the pearl was about 6.3 kilograms. According to legend, this pearl is nothing more than the head of Allah Himself. It got this name because of its shape, which reminds us of the head of a Muslim in a turban.

Information about pearls can be found in sources several thousand years old – in the Indian Vedas and on Persian clay tablets. In ancient mythology, it was considered to be the tears of mermaids or angels. In addition, pearls are considered to be the oldest gemstone to be used in jewellery, as they could be used “as is” without any additional processing.

Pearls are an organomineral consisting of an aggregate of calcium carbonate and a horny substance called conchiolin. In other words, it is a limestone organic compound that arose as a result of the mollusk’s defensive reaction to a foreign substance.

Pearls come in a variety of colours: cream, silver, pink, white, dark gold, and even blue and black. There are more than a hundred shades. The palette depends not only on the types of pearl mollusks, but also on the place of their birth, the chemical composition of the water and the maturity of the pearls themselves. Maturity is measured in microns of aragonite plate thickness. Layers with a thickness of half a micron or more are considered to be the most brilliant, and therefore of the highest quality. These are mostly not river pearls, but sea pearls

Natural sea pearl is a storehouse of valuable trace elements, and this property was most often used for medicinal purposes. Sometimes water was kept on the stone, sometimes it was ground to a fine powder, but eventually it was taken orally to saturate the body with all the useful substances. Today, even in mass cosmetics, this organomineral is used to strengthen hair, nails and even rejuvenate the skin.

Since ancient times, pearls have been associated with beauty, innocence and sincere feelings. For example, in ancient Rome, it was the stone of the goddess of love and beauty Venus (even in Sandro Botticelli’s painting “The Birth of Venus”, the goddess stands in the sash of a huge shell).

In addition, many believe that pearls can bring great luck to their owner, including financial. An unusual gemstone will bring harmony and peace of mind to the heart, protecting you from other people’s bad thoughts.