Are saltwater pearls more advisedly than freshwater pearls?
It depends on who you ask, but tons pearl experts today consent that freshwater cultured pearls can compete with the belle of their saltwater cousins. Necessary to improvements in culturing techniques, freshwater pearl farmers are producing good-looking, round, polished pearls that are a vast improvement upward of the wrinkled, rice-krispie-shaped gems that typified the freshwater pearl crop of the not-so-distant past.