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
Dispatched within 48 hours of your order being confirmed, for delivery within 14 days from dispatch. I keep no buffer stock, and I won’t promise a timeframe I couldn’t meet.
Postage charges
€6.99 to any destination, free on orders of €47 or more to France, Belgium, Switzerland and Luxembourg. The exact amount appears in the cart before you pay.
The packaging, and why it matters
Every piece ships in its own pouch, kept apart from the others. This isn’t about presentation: the hardness of jade is ordinary, between 6 and 6.5 for nephrite and 6.5 to 7 for jadeite, and the quartz in everyday dust sits at 7. Two pieces of jewellery that travel together end up scratching each other.
Fourteen days to change your mind
With no need to explain yourself. An email is enough to open a return, there is no form to fill in. Return postage is at your expense, unless the piece doesn’t match its listing or arrives damaged.
Warm water, mild soap, a soft cloth. A very soft brush for the hollows of a carving. That’s all, and it’s enough.
What you must never do, and why
No ultrasonic cleaner, no steam, no solvent, no heat source. This isn’t a token precaution: the treatment status of my pieces is not established. My supplier doesn’t know, and weighing establishes the mineral without saying anything about a possible resin impregnation. Resin tolerates 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 hard to break: its interlocking crystal structure resists fracturing, and that is why axes could be shaped from it in the Neolithic. Its hardness, on the other hand, is ordinary, 6 to 6.5 for nephrite and 6.5 to 7 for jadeite. The quartz in everyday dust sits at 7: that is what dulls 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 the knocks against corners happen. 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. I’m French, from Morbihan, and based in Tallinn. I choose the pieces and have them set: I mine nothing, I cut nothing, and I don’t do the metalwork myself. The work I do is the sorting, and with this material that is what decides everything.
I am neither a gemmologist, nor a lapidary, nor a therapist, and I don’t claim to be.
I weigh, I don’t certify
Before putting a reference online, I order one example of it for myself. When it reaches me unset, 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 reference, not every piece. I don’t handle the piece that goes out to you, and I would rather say so than let you believe otherwise. The method, with its three limits.
What I can’t know
The treatment status of my pieces. My supplier doesn’t know, and the scales say nothing about it: they establish the mineral, not the resin impregnation. Only infrared spectroscopy in a laboratory would settle it, and I don’t have that done. So you will never read “jadeite A”, “type A” or “untreated” on this site. The information sheet.
Where my jade comes from
No Burmese jadeite, and the first reason is a legal one. Not the reason you read everywhere: the JADE Act of 2008 did indeed 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-owned company that controls the Burmese gem trade. So there is no general ban, but an American is not allowed to trade with that entity, and a stone never tells you where it has passed through. One single supply chain for ten markets: it has to hold up for the most demanding of them. When an origin isn’t confirmed to me in writing, the listing doesn’t state it. My sourcing policy.
