When considering purchasing amber beads or jewelry customer often faces doubts about authenticity of product and worries of being scammed and sold fakes.
Generally amber is divided into three main categories.
Natural Baltic amber (Succinite) – gemstone which has undergone mechanical treatment only (for instance: grinding, cutting, turning or polishing) without any change to its natural properties.
Modified Baltic amber (Succinite) – gemstone subjected only to thermal or high-pressure treatment, which changed its physical properties, including the degree of transparency and color, or shaped under similar conditions out of one nugget, previously cut to the required size.
Reconstructed (pressed) Baltic amber (Succinite) – gemstone made of Baltic amber pieces pressed in high temperature and under high pressure without additional components.
Though all types might look similar to inexperienced eye and look fine in jewelry Natural amber is usually preferred for those seeking healing properties.
Here at TheNaturalAmber we don`t use any Reconstructed amber as we believe our customers deserve best amber pieces with highest succinic acid contet which may be lost in high pressures and temperatures used to create reconstructed amber.