Magnesite

The company of Magnesite brings a sense of peace and serenity. It's a stone that invites you to relax and gently teaches you to love yourself.

She teaches you the art of patience and tolerance. A great support in times of stress, she can make you less irritable and help you get through your emotions without letting them get the better of you.

Physically, Magnesite can help with magnesium deficiency. It is highly appreciated in weight-loss diets, as it burns fat, helps prevent snacking and has a detoxifying effect on the body.

It can help with spasms, colic, cramps, migraines and headaches.
It reduces blood coagulation, which can help prevent thrombosis.

It's sometimes confused with Howlite, which can bring it together, but it's a completely different stone. See our Howlite rolled stones

How to use Magnesite

• If you feel tired, stressed and irritable, wear a Magnesite on you, preferably directly against your skin.
• For headaches or migraines, take time to relax with a Magnesite placed directly on the painful area.
• For a detox cure, weight-loss diet or magnesium deficiency, place Magnesites directly in the water in your carafe.
• To combat cellulite, massage the affected area regularly with a massage stick, pebbles or rolled Magnesite stones.

Where to place Magnesite?

• Magnesite in your home diffuses energies conducive to relaxation.
• You can place it in a quiet place like your bathroom, living room or bedroom. Under your pillow, it can help you sleep better and at the foot of the bed, it can help relieve muscle cramps.
• An excellent stone for a dietician's practice or beauty center.

Magnesite, for whom?

• For people who want to lose weight or detox.
• For and who are easily stressed, irritable or have trouble keeping calm.
• For people who lack patience or tolerance.

Magnesite in mineralogy

Magnesite belongs to the Calcite-Dolomite-Aragonite family of carbonates. It is a magnesium carbonate that may contain traces of iron, manganese and calcium.

White, yellowish or grayish-white in color, Magnesite is mainly the result of 3 different geological processes: alteration of magnesium-rich rocks by carbonate waters; metamorphism; metasomatosis of limestones.
It most often occurs as granular aggregates and more rarely as trigonal rhombohedral crystals.

Did you know? Although similar in appearance and easily confused, Howlite and Magnesite are two different stones, contrary to what some books claim. Howlite is a calcium silicate, Magnesite a magnesium carbonate. They do not have the same therapeutic properties.

Magnesite is often dyed blue or blue-green and sold under the name Turquoise or Chrysocolla. Don't be fooled! Magnesite artificially dyed blue is called "Turquenite".

The history of Magnesite

Its name comes from the Latin magnes, after the hills of Magnesia in Thessaly. Its history is difficult to trace because, until 1808, when magnesium was identified, Magnesite was often confused with lime.

It is used as a raw material for insulating materials such as firebricks, for pharmaceutical products and in sport, in the gym or in climbing to prevent slippery hands.