Question about bleaching

[Mervione]

It´s apparantly a standard to bleach pearls that are going into white strands, I noticed the other day that a few pearls in my exotics are white, and they aren´t bleached. I´m wondering if naturally white pearls are rare since they have to bleach them? It´s such a shame because I want my pearls to be as natural as possible.

[jshepherd]

Even the white ones are bleached, unfortunately. But I have found some great unbleached ones in the past. The first time I collected exotics in Weitang the white ones were some of the best.

[Mervione]

Shame that they bleach even the white ones. I guess it´s easier that way.