Crystals are believed to have numerous healing properties, from increasing love to helping people sleep and dissipating negative energy in a room. Rose quartz can help promote romance while amethyst can clear negative energies away.
No matter your faith or personal taste, purchasing crystals ethically is of utmost importance. Luckily, many online crystal shops prioritize ethical business practices and eco-friendly shipping.
House of Intuition
House of Intuition’s 10 physical shops spanning Pasadena to West Hollywood provide an incredible assortment of intention candles, altar offerings and crystal healing crystals – with its “your intuition led you here” mantra earning them over 129,000 Instagram followers as well as media attention from outlets such as PureWow and The CUT.
Brand favorites from this retailer are affirmation candles to promote prosperity and zodiac magic candles that pay homage to various astrological signs. Customers share how their purchases worked for them online reviews–whether an affirmation candle brought unexpected windfalls, or throat chakra crystal packs empowered them to express themselves freely.
Moonrise Crystals provides an extensive inventory and ethical sourcing practices, making them one of the best places to buy crystals online. Their eight guidelines for sourcing include tracking stones’ origins, keeping a do not buy list for problematic regions, investing in fair wages, as well as searching its 238 stone types by chakra, astrological sign or more.
Peach and Pixie
This Black-women owned store offers everything from raw crystals and charging plates, jewelry and crystal bundles for beginner crystal users and collectors to gift sets, all ethically sourced and shipped using carbon offset shipping.
Moonrise Crystals offers transparent sourcing. Each crystal listed on their website includes details regarding where and how it was mined or manufactured as well as how many hands have touched its journey from mine to market.
This online crystal shop, established by a self-declared “Mexican-American Witch,” offers an eclectic collection of stones ethically sourced and harvested. Additionally, there is an assortment of apothecary products combining plant medicine with crystal energies to promote well-being and spiritual healing – plus all packaging used is compostable!
Sage Goddess
Sage Goddess was established by a former coach and cognitive therapy professional to serve as one of the largest online retailers and learning providers of metaphysical tools. Offering everything from crystal necklaces and perfume to ethically farmed sage bundles and enrichment courses that help customers develop holistic spiritual practices, it offers all you need for metaphysical practice at its shopfronts and online.
This small Etsy seller provides an expansive collection of natural and tumbled crystals, unique statues such as feather smudgers incorporating driftwood, as well as “mystery boxes” of intuitively selected gems and minerals for you to discover your crystals with. In addition, all shipping is carbon offset.
Marti discovered her passion for healing crystals while traveling through Madagascar and created Spirit Nectar Gems as an outlet to share this magic with others. Each crystal in the store has been carefully chosen with educational descriptions for their properties provided; all ethically sourced crystals often fully traceable as quality assurance measures are adhered to.
Crystals Etsy
Crystals have become the new “It” accessory, thanks to Gwyneth Paltrow and Adelle, so where can you find the highest-quality crystals online? Etsy offers an unparalleled customer experience as well as premium products.
These 18 online shops provide everything you need to embark on a healing crystal journey, from established lapidaries selling museum-quality crystals to small sellers specializing in rose quartz hearts. Shops like these provide natural and polished stones as well as fun accessories like sage bundles and stone wands – everything you’d need for the journey is here.
Many retailers take great care in their sourcing practices, working directly with mines and forging relationships with suppliers. Furthermore, many offer information about the metaphysical properties of crystals purchased. Spirit Nectar Gems stands out by providing customers with guidance for using their new purchases such as labradorite and opal as well as rare specimens like Moldavite and Libyan Desert Glass from Madagascar as top sellers.