Journal — Entry 01
Crystal care guide: how to clean, charge and store your crystal bracelet
Natural crystal jewelry keeps best with a light touch. This guide covers everything you need to care for a Dusk & Relic crystal bracelet — daily wear, cleaning, water safety, charging, storage, and when to restring.
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Daily wear: last on, first off
Crystal bracelets sit best against bare skin — but let your routine finish first. Apply perfume, lotion and sunscreen, let them dry, then slide the bracelet on. Take it off before swimming, showering, workouts and sleep.
To put on an elastic crystal bracelet without straining the cord, roll it gently over your hand instead of pulling one side.
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How to clean a crystal bracelet
After wear, wipe the beads with a soft, dry microfiber cloth — that alone keeps most crystal jewelry bright. For hard quartz stones such as clear quartz, amethyst, citrine and rose quartz, a barely damp cloth is fine; dry immediately.
Never use ultrasonic cleaners, steam or household chemicals on natural stones or gold-fill spacers.
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Water, sun and salt: know your stone
Keep dry: selenite, howlite, malachite and pyrite are water-sensitive — no exceptions. Fade in sunlight: amethyst, rose quartz, citrine and fluorite lose color under long direct sun. Salt: sea water and sweat corrode gold-fill spacers — rinse-free care is safest for every stone.
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How to charge crystals, gently
The classic way to charge a crystal bracelet is an overnight rest on a windowsill in moonlight — the full moon, if you keep the calendar. A few quiet hours on a selenite dish works between cycles.
Skip long sun-charging: direct sun fades the very stones it means to wake.
Care is not a ceremony. It is the small attention a natural thing asks for.
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Storing crystal jewelry
Put it back the way it arrived: loosely coiled on its acid-free tissue, kept flat and kept apart from harder stones — quartz will scratch softer minerals like howlite and larimar. Keep the cord relaxed. Never stretch it around a bottle, and never stack anything on top of it.
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Restringing and lifetime care
Elastic cord is a wear part — after years of honest use it tires. That is not the end of the bracelet: every Dusk & Relic piece carries a lifetime restringing promise. Write to us and we will make it right.
Crystal care questions, answered
Can I wear my crystal bracelet in the shower?
Best not to. Soap films dull natural stones, heat stresses the elastic cord, and water-sensitive minerals like selenite and howlite should never be soaked. Last on, first off.
How often should I cleanse or charge my crystals?
Once a moon cycle is the traditional rhythm — or simply whenever the piece has been through a heavy week. An overnight rest in moonlight is care for the stone and a small ritual for you.
Why does my bracelet look different from the photos?
Every stone is natural and cut from a different piece of the earth, so color, veining and inclusions vary. That variation is the proof it is real — not a defect.
Can my bracelet be resized or restrung?
Our bracelets are strung One Size on premium elastic to fit most wrists. If the cord ever tires or you need an adjustment, the lifetime restringing promise covers it — contact support and we will take care of it.
Every Dusk & Relic bracelet carries a lifetime restringing promise — if a knot or cord ever tires, we make it right.