Howlite
Veined Borate Translucent 3.5
Uncommon-Rare
California and Nova Scotia
Colors: White, Colorless
Uses: Howlite strengthens memory and stimulates desire for knowledge. It teaches patience and helps to eliminate rage, pain and stress. A calming stone, Howlite calms communication, facilitates awareness and encourages emotional expression. Howlite balances calcium levels in the body.
Properties: Howlite is a soft stone, so it can easily be scratched. With its calcium structure, it is also vulnerable to many chemical cleaners, acidic perspiration and damage from sand and dust. To clean howlite, use lukewarm, slightly soapy water and a soft cloth (cotton is best).
Major Types of Howlite
White Howlite
Veined Borate Translucent 3.5
Common
Canada, United States, Germany, Mexico, Russia, and Turkey
Colors: White with Black Marbling
Uses: Anytime you're experiencing anxiety or high stress, white howlite isa great stone to use. It can help reduce your levels of stress and anger, and dispel anger that is directed towards you from others. Howlite works by absorbing negative energy and filling the void with calming properties that help you feel at peace.
Properties: White Howlite is a stone of infinite patience. White Howlite can help bring new ideas into focus and aids in achieving ambitions and dreams. White Howlite has a soft peaceful energy that is calming, it can help settle an overactive mind.
*Note* White and “Clear” Howlite are often dyed to create synthetic versions of other stones
Blue Howlite “Synthetic Lapis”
Veined Borate Translucent 3.5
Dyed
Natural Howlite
Colors: Dyed Blue
Uses: Blue Howlite enhances communication, it strengthens self-protection and self-healing. Blue Howlite is said to assist with sleep and reduces insomina. Blue Howlite Stones helps remember dreams and gives insight into the meaning behind the dream.
Properties: Blue or Turquoise Howlite is a great stone to reduce anxiety, tensions, stress and anger, it is gentle, soothing and calms the energy around you. Blue is associated the throat chakra and communication.
*Note* Synthetic Lapis Lazuli
Turquoise Howlite “Synthetic Turquoise”
Veined Borate Translucent 3.5
Dyed
Natural Howlite
Colors: Dyed Turquoise
Uses: Turquoise Howlite is a great stone to reduce anxiety, tensions, stress and anger, it is gentle, soothing and calms the energy around you.
Properties: Turquoise / Blue Howlite can aid the throat chakra, dream recall and enables the understanding of dreams. It can also assist astral travel during sleep. Howlite is a very calming stone. It is an excellent remedy for insomnia and is calming for overactive mind meaning that it can also be used as an aid for meditation.
*Note* Synthetic Turquoise
Green Howlite "Synthetic Malachite"
Veined Borate Translucent 3.5
Dyed
Natural Howlite
Colors: Dyed Green
Uses: Green Howlite is a heart chakra stone helping to call in healing and soothing energies into the center of your body. This crystal can help you with patience, especially when feeling intense emotions, while taking the 'edge' off of emotional healing.
Properties: Green Howlite can promote peace and stability of the mindset, thus maintaining a healthy and cheerful state of mind, so that people are always full of positive energy.
*Note* This is a much safer option instead of natural Malachite