How to clean your jewelry DIY@home
Did your jewelry oxidise or lost its shine? Are the stones less sparley or even dull?? Here are some tips and tricks to maintain your jewelry and to prevent your precious accessoires from tarnishing.
The best thing to do is wear your jewelry frequently, because of the friction against clothing etc will keep your jewelry shiny. But the first thing i want to tell you is how to pervent your silver jewelry from oxidation. How to stock the jewelry while not wearing is a very importent step to prevent blackening silver. The best thing to stock your jewelry is in a zip bag, out from air. It is the liver of sulfur that is in the air that couses tarnishing silver. Keeping your silver in the bathroom is the worst place to keep them, because of the larger amount of liver of sulfur in the bathroom air.
Take off your jewelry while washing your hands will prevent to clog soap on it, and when putting on handcream. Your jewelry will keep it’s shine longer.
You can olso store your jewelry in a the jewelry gift box, a beautyfill jewelry case, a jewelry bag,…but the best is a zip bag.
All the steps below is about how to clean jour silver or gold jewelry.
How to clean your jewelry @home…
What do you need:
* cup of hot water
* gentle dishwaser soap
* new toothbrush
* kitchen towel and a polishing cloth
What you need:
You need a cup of hot water (not boiling water - just hot water like you would do the dishes), with some soft dishwasher soap to let the jewelry soak for a couple af minutes. The dishwasher soap will dissolve the grease etc from the jewelry and stones.
How to clean:
Put some dishwasher soap in a new toothbrush, rub it on the jewelry on outside and inside, all around.
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Look for holes from stones
If your jewelry have some gemstones, check for holes at the back or inside a ring, they can clog up with grease. Rub gently with the toothbrush in the holes. The grease comes from sweat, handcream, dryed soap,… And rinse with clean water.
! Be very gentle with rubbing with claw settings ! A claw setting can wear out over years, stones can come loose.
Wipe dry with kitchen towel
Wipe your jewelry dry with a kitchen towel. Dryed water can leave staines too.
Why a kitchen towel and not a bathroom towel?? Wel for a very simple reasen, a kitchen towel doesn’t have long fibers and will tangel less on to your jewelry. It would be sad to put effort in the cleaning work and have ring with threads on it in stead.
polishing up
Wipe your jewelry with the jellow polishing cloth (that you get with your order when your buy at my shop) to give it a polished look again. If you have a matt, satin or frosted finish, your can skip this part.
The deliverd polishing cloth has a polishing compound on it for silver and gold jewelry. Is not supposte to be washed, it wil loose it’s surface. The polish cloth will get dirty by rubbing on your jewelry, that is normal, you can keep using it until it falls apart.