How to Clean Your Jewelry Like a Pro

Keeping your jewelry clean is of utmost importance. These tips are going- remove tarnish from your jewelry and help them glimmer for years to come. Jewelry should sparkle, however, exposure to debris and dust, hand creams and soaps and even sweat, moisture and air can tarnish your favorite pieces eventually and deprive them of their shimmer. Read below and find out how to clean some of your prized jewelry pieces. Fortunately, it’s feasible to clean a lot of jewelry in your jewelry box without going to a professional cleaner. Revive tarnished silver and discolored gold back to their previous selves, and make those pearls look captivating once more.

How to Clean Silver

The preferrable and safest method to clean your tarnished silver jewelry and hinder them from re-tarnishing as fast is with a good silver polish in which contains ingredients that breaks up and removes tarnish, at the same time leaving behind a protective layer to hinder new tarnish from developing.

Paste and liquid polishes can be somewhat unpleasant to use, particularly when you’re in a hurry. Throwaway silver cleaning wipes are a tidier, more convenient option, so are specially treated re-usable mitts or multi-layered cloths, in which have 1 cloth to cleaner and removing tarnish and a 2nd one for shining

How to Clean Gold

Give your solid gold bracelets, gold chains, and gold earrings a mild bath in a mixture of a couple drops of dishwashing liquid and a little warm water. Place small jewelry pieces into a strainer prior to placing them in the mixture; larger pieces can be placed directly into the mixture to soak for around 5 minutes for dislodging dirt. Whoosh the jewelry around, then get them out, place them on a soft cloth and go over their gaps and chain links with a soft toothbrush for removing the grime trapped between. Place small pieces back into your strainer then rinse everything off under running water. Then using a soft cloth to buff the pieces dry.

How to Clean Pearls

Since they porous, pearls retain dirt and dust and easily lose their sheen. If real, cultured, or artificial, you need clean them carefully. Basic rule: By no means soak pearls because as a result can cause the string to weaken and come apart.

For cleaning pearls, begin by placing them on a soft material. Douse a clean, little brush into a solution of warm water and some dishwashing liquid. Shake off the extra mixture and go over all sides of each of the pearls. To finish, rinse them with a clean, well-strained damp cloth. Allow the strand dry flat to stop the string from stretching.

This non-soaking treatment also works well for opals and turquoise (which are additionally porous stones). Specialized pearl care cleaning kits include tissue packets of cleaner and a cloth for polishing to make cleaning pearl strands easier and less monotonous.

How to Properly Care for Your Jewelry

Take off rings when washing your hands, applying hand creams, cleaning you house, or applying lotions to keep the settings free of grime. And put on perfume prior to — not after — putting on necklaces, earrings, and bracelets.
Take off jewelry when swimming — the saltwater and chlorine can damage them.
Wipe-down pearls using a soft cloth following each wear for removing body oils and perfume which can yellow them.
Don’t let your silver stay in your jewelry box — wear them! They become shinier the more they’re worn (the friction hampers tarnishing). When you are not wearing them, store pieces in anti-tarnishing bags.

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