Lab-Created Diamonds For Engagement Rings
Green Eco Diamonds for Engagement Rings
An excellent choice for diamonds is the lab-created diamond. This is not to be confused with "simulant" or "imitation." A lab-created diamond is chemically and structurally a diamond in every way, and they are certified and graded the same way naturally grown diamonds are. The main difference is that they are grown in a lab rather than mined from the Earth.
A lab-created diamond is an earth-conscious and a pocket-conscious choice!
What Makes a Lab Diamond a Great Choice?
- Color Choices: Lab-created diamonds are available in many colors, including white, shades of pink, blue, yellow, and green, with new colors becoming available each year!
- Guaranteed Conflict-Free: With a commitment to transparency and guaranteed origin, each lab-created diamond is conflict-free.
- Eco-Friendly: Lab-grown diamonds have the added benefit of being considered a "green" choice for the environmentally conscious. They are produced with a small environmental footprint and are made without moving any earth.
- Sustainable: Because no earth is moved, natural systems in the environment remain available for future generations to have the resources they need.
- Laser Inscribed: Each lab-created diamond is laser-inscribed, matching the diamond's grading certificate.
- Certified by Diamond Grading Labs: Lab-grown diamonds larger than one carat are certified by the International Gemological Institute.
What is a Lab-Created Diamond?
Lab-created diamonds are identical to mined diamonds, sharing the same physical, chemical, and optical properties as their natural counterparts. Materials such as Moissanite, Cubic Zirconia (CZ), White Sapphire, etc., are simulants that attempt to “look” like a diamond.
Sustainable Sparkle: Making Rare Beauty Attainable
The emergence of lab-grown diamonds is not only an accomplishment of human ingenuity and a breakthrough in beauty and fashion, but also an essential step in broadening our appreciation for diamonds, the most prized of all gems. A new era has dawned. The conditions under which a diamond naturally grows have been replicated above ground, resulting in beautiful white and fancy-color cultured diamonds.
Awareness and demand for eco-friendly diamonds have grown significantly over the past few years, especially with the attention generated by major celebrities who have been recipients of these rare gems. Mined, fancy-color diamonds, ranging from the popular canary yellow to pink and blue, can cost $20,000 to $1,000,000 per carat, well beyond the reach of most consumers. Lab-grown diamonds offer access to the elegance of fancy-color diamonds at a fraction of the cost.
A Diamond Is a Diamond
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Lab-grown diamonds are polished by master diamond cutters using traditional polishing techniques. Each lab-grown diamond possesses unique characteristics and, just like mined diamonds, is graded according to the 4C standards.
A Diamond is a diamond, whether grown in a lab or deep within the Earth. Lab-created diamonds form under high heat and pressure that replicate natural geological conditions, allowing carbon atoms to bond and crystallize just as they do in nature. The result: a lab-created diamond with the same physical, chemical, and optical properties as its earth-mined counterpart.
White Lab-Created Diamonds
While lab-created diamonds do cost a little less than their natural white counterparts, they are not inexpensive. You're still looking at 70-90% of a natural diamond cost for smaller lab-created diamonds, although for large white lab diamonds, you could save significantly more.
The lab-created diamond inventory is still relatively small, and the diamonds sell out very quickly.
Please Note: We do not sell loose lab-created diamonds.
Fancy Colored Lab Created Diamonds
Lab-grown and natural diamonds, both of which have a visible coloration (outside the colorless D-Z range), are considered “Fancy colored” or colored diamonds. While not identical to that of natural diamonds, the distribution of Fancy-colored lab diamonds on the market is broadly comparable; yellow is the most prevalent, with some rare blues and pinks also available.
A fancy-colored lab-grown diamond is a great way to get the best of both worlds, with the sparkle and hardness of a diamond and some of the color of a gemstone. Additionally, a lab diamond will cost less than one mined from the earth, though not by an exponential amount, as is the case with colored moissanite or gemstones.
The Science of Lab Diamond Color
Chemically pure lab-grown diamonds, like their natural counterparts, will be composed only of carbon and appear entirely colorless—a “D” color white diamond. Certain “impurities,” however, are highly desirable for their aesthetic qualities. Excess nitrogen in the manufacturing process results in a yellowish color, while excess boron produces a blue color. Additional colors can be created using the same color enhancement methods used on natural diamonds, either to treat a colorless lab diamond or to intensify the color of a lab-grown diamond with some color.
Because blue and pink lab diamond inventory is limited, options of size and shape are much more restricted than those of white lab diamonds. If your priority is color, you need to remain open to shape.
Grading of Fancy Colored Lab Diamonds
Fancy-colored diamonds are graded differently from those in the colorless range, along the two dimensions of tone and saturation. Tone refers to the lightness or darkness of a diamond, while saturation refers to the color’s intensity. The same scale is used to grade lab- and natural diamonds alike.
