Jade roller with two heads, a large and a small one, mounted on a fork of gold-toned metal. Stone handle held between two ferrules. Surfaces polished with no edge.
Nothing comes apart, so nothing can be weighed: no figure will be published on this reference, and it is precisely the object where the market sells the most serpentine. This page says so at the top.
No cosmetic promise on this page: I sell an object of polished stone, not a result on a face. The full warning is here.
A jade roller with two heads, a large one and a small one, mounted on a fork of gold-toned metal. The handle is stone too, held between two gold-toned ferrules. The green is flecked with white and dark green, different from one head to the other.
In four lines
Two heads, a large and a small one, on a fork of gold-toned metal.
Stone handle, held between two ferrules. Nothing comes apart.
No figure will be published: there is not one piece of bare stone to weigh.
No cosmetic promise on this page, and that is a house rule.
It is the object where the word jade is most often false
On the massage roller market, a very large share of what is sold as “jade” is not. It is the aisle where serpentine circulates most, labelled “new jade” or “Korean jade”, along with green aventurine. The low price and mass production have a lot to do with it. None of those names designates jade.
My method exists precisely to settle that, and on this object it does not apply: nothing comes apart, everything is riveted or set in metal. I could write that in small print; I prefer to write it at the top of the page. The Density line in the record says “not measurable”, and it will say so as long as this reference is sold mounted.
What I will not say on this page
No cosmetic promise. You will not read here that this roller firms, drains, refreshes, decongests, smooths or reduces anything at all. It is not a legal precaution, it is a position: I sell an object of polished stone, not a result on a face.
The stone is cold to the touch and stays so for a long time. That is a physical property, thermal conductivity, and it is real: a dense stone draws heat away from the skin faster than a plastic does. Glass, marble and steel share it, so it proves nothing about the mineral, but it explains why stone is used rather than something else.
The two heads turn on an axle, the large one for cheeks and forehead, the small one for narrow areas. The surfaces are polished with no edge, which is the only feature that really matters on an object you run over the skin. The green is flecked, different from one head to the other: two pieces of natural stone do not look alike.
Care, and the two traps of this object
Warm water, a mild soap, a soft cloth, and thorough drying. Never ultrasonic, never steam, never solvent: the treatment status is unknown, any resin would not stand it, and the metal axle would rust.
Two traps specific to the roller. The first: water left in the axle ends up seizing or staining it, so dry the heads while turning them. The second: jade is very tough but its hardness is ordinary, 6 to 6.5 for nephrite, and a fall onto a washbasin chips a head far more surely than it breaks it. The difference between hardness and toughness, and care in detail.
Additional information
Stone
Néphrite
Colour
Two tone
Stone shape
Roller
Motif
No motif
Mounting
Metal setting
Metal
Gold tone, alloy not stated
Setting
No setting
Worn by
Unisex
Paired stones
None, jade only
Mineral family
Calcic amphibole
Hardness (Mohs)
6 to 6.5
Reference density
2.90 to 3.03 g/cm³
Toughness
Exceptional, interlocking crystals
Treatment
Not determined
Origin
Outside Burma, country of extraction not confirmed
Delivery Times
Dispatch within 48 hours of your order being confirmed, for delivery within 14 days from dispatch. I keep no stock in reserve, and I will not promise a date I could not meet.
Shipping Costs
€6.99 whatever the destination, free on orders over €47 to France, Belgium, Switzerland and Luxembourg. The exact amount is shown in your basket before you pay.
The Packaging, and Why It Matters
Every piece travels in its own pouch, kept apart from the others. This is not a question of presentation: the hardness of jade is unremarkable, between 6 and 6.5 for nephrite and 6.5 to 7 for jadeite, and the quartz in ordinary household dust sits at 7. Two pieces of jewellery that travel together arrive marked.
Fourteen Days to Change Your Mind
No need to give a reason. An email is enough to open a return; there is no form to fill in. Return postage is at your expense, unless the piece does not match its listing or arrives damaged.
Lukewarm water, mild soap, a soft cloth. A very soft brush for the hollows of a carving. That is all, and it is enough.
What You Must Never Do, and Why
No ultrasonic cleaners, no steam, no solvents, no heat source. This is not a precaution for show: the treatment status of my pieces is undetermined. My supplier does not know it, and weighing identifies the mineral without telling me anything about a possible resin impregnation. Resin withstands neither heat nor solvents, so every piece is handled as though it might contain some. The information sheet on treatments.
Scratches, and Where They Come From
Jade is tough, meaning very difficult to break: its structure of interlocking crystals resists cracking, and that is what made it usable for axe heads in the Neolithic. Its hardness, by contrast, is unremarkable, 6 to 6.5 for nephrite and 6.5 to 7 for jadeite. The quartz in ordinary household dust sits at 7: that is what dulls a jade, not knocks. The difference between the two.
Day to Day
Put the piece on after perfume and cream, never before. Take it off for housework, gardening and sport, where knocks against hard edges are common. Store each piece on its own, in its pouch. On a strand of beads, the thread wears out before the stone: it gets restrung, and there is nothing abnormal about that.
My name is Jade. French, from Morbihan, living in Tallinn. I choose the pieces and have them mounted: I mine nothing, I cut nothing, and the metalwork is not done by my hand. What I bring is the selection, and with this material that is what decides everything.
I am not a gemmologist, not a lapidary, not a therapist, and I do not claim to be.
I Weigh, I Do Not Certify
Before a listing goes online, I order one example of it for myself. When it reaches me unmounted, I weigh it in air, then suspended from a thread in a glass of water: the ratio of the two masses gives the density, and that figure separates jadeite, nephrite, serpentine and dyed quartzite without ambiguity.
One example per listing, and not every piece. I do not handle the piece that is sent to you, and I would rather write that down than let you believe otherwise. The method, with its three limits.
What I Cannot Know
The treatment status of my pieces. My supplier does not know it, and the scales do not tell me: they identify the mineral, not the resin impregnation. Only infrared spectroscopy in a laboratory would settle it, and I do not have that done. So you will never read “Grade A jadeite”, “Type A” or “untreated” on this site. The information sheet.
Where My Jade Comes From
No Burmese jadeite, and the first reason is legal. Not the one you read everywhere: the JADE Act of 2008 did ban these stones in the United States, but that ban was lifted on 7 October 2016. What applies today dates from 8 April 2021: the US Treasury sanctioned Myanma Gems Enterprise, the state company that controls the Burmese gem trade. So there is no blanket ban, but a US person is not allowed to trade with that entity, and a stone never tells you where it has been. A single supply chain serves ten markets, so it has to hold up in the most demanding of them. When an origin is not confirmed to me in writing, the listing does not state it. My origin charter.
