Turquoise jewelry buying guide

For thousands of years, turquoise has been appreciated as a holy stone, talisman, and a good-luck-charm. Turquoise stones with its charming color are very popular. So let’s study some turquoise jewelry buying guide.
Comparing with diamond or sapphire, turquoise is porous and soft because it has some amount of water content. So an epoxy resin is infused into the pores of the turquoise stone to stabilize it and make it suitable for use in jewelry.
In order to bring out the color in its best form, turquoise is quite porous by formation and it always needs some form of treatment. Sometimes, turquoise is also treated with chemicals for color enhancements.
You can see a lot of turquoise jewelry styles from The USA, because it is a major supplier of turquoise
If you can’t certain if the turquoise you are buying is natural or treated. Most of the commercially available turquoise available these days is treated in some form or the other. Treated turquoise is cheaper than the natural turquoise, which is usually very expensive.