How to clean a silver chain from blackness at home

Almost every per­son has a sil­ver chain. It is durable, shiny and goes with every­thing.

How­ev­er, when oxy­gen or sul­fur comes into con­tact with sil­ver, a chem­i­cal reac­tion occurs on its sur­face. This caus­es a change in the col­or of the prod­uct — dark­en­ing, pol­lu­tion and stains.

Don’t wor­ry — this prob­lem is solved! To enjoy a flaw­less shine for a long time, you need to know how to prop­er­ly store and clean your sil­ver chain, and fol­low these rec­om­men­da­tions.

How to clean a silver chain: 7 proven ways

Warm water, mild soap, and a non-ammo­nia and phos­phate clean­er are used BEFORE remov­ing black­ness from a sil­ver chain in the fol­low­ing ways:

1. Make a pasty paste out of bak­ing soda and water. To apply it over sil­ver and pol­ish the item, use a clean cloth to get into the cracks and recess­es, take a tooth­brush;
2. Mix 1/2 cup lemon juice with 1 tea­spoon olive oil in a bowl large enough to hold the clean­ing solu­tion and a small microfiber cloth. Dip a cloth into the solu­tion and wring it out so it does­n’t drip, then pol­ish the sil­ver, rinse and dry it;
3. white vine­gar (not apple cider!) and bak­ing soda form a gen­tle cleanser. It removes even heavy coat­ings that hin­der sil­ver pol­ish­ing. Pre­pare a solu­tion by mix­ing 2 table­spoons of bak­ing soda and half a cup of vine­gar. Soak the chain in it for 2–3 hours, then rinse and dry;
4. A sim­ple chem­i­cal reac­tion of bak­ing soda, alu­minum foil, salt and boiled water is an effec­tive and inex­pen­sive way to clean your sil­ver chain. Place foil mat­te side down in a saucepan or kitchen sink. Place a sil­ver chain on it. Then pour boil­ing water over the pieces until cov­ered and add 2 table­spoons of bak­ing soda and salt. It is impor­tant that soda and salt are com­plete­ly dis­solved. After 5–10 min­utes, using tongs or nitrile gloves (sul­phur-free rub­ber gloves), remove the prod­uct;
5. Tooth­paste — This com­mon den­tal and oral care prod­uct is excel­lent at clean­ing and restor­ing the shine of many met­als. Spread the chain with tooth­paste and leave for a while. Then rinse the chain under run­ning water and let it dry. It is impor­tant that the tooth­paste does not con­tain col­or or whiten­ing ingre­di­ents, as it can per­ma­nent­ly dis­col­or sil­ver;
6. a solu­tion of bak­ing soda with water is only suit­able for chains with­out pen­dants. Pen­dants can be wiped with a cloth soaked in it;
7. ash is the old­est method of clean­ing sil­ver acces­sories. To clean the chain, you need to pour the ash­es on a soft cloth and wrap the prod­uct in it overnight.

After clean­ing the sil­ver chain at home in any way, care­ful­ly run it with run­ning water or wipe it with a clean, damp cloth. Then dry your jew­el­ry and pol­ish to pre­vent stains.

Impor­tant! Do not use kitchen tow­els, scarves, woolen cloths for pol­ish­ing. They con­tain coarse fibers that can scratch jew­el­ry.

To clean and pol­ish sil­ver at home and a chain from black­ness, you should pur­chase spe­cial flan­nel or microfiber cloths. Move the cloth back and forth while pol­ish­ing. Avoid cir­cu­lar move­ments — they increase small scratch­es.

If this is not enough to remove dull­ness and black­ness, it is worth using a method such as clean­ing a sil­ver chain with ammo­nia.

How­ev­er, it should be remem­bered that jew­el­ry with stones dete­ri­o­rates from this.

If your item con­sists of small curly ele­ments and stones, do not try to bleach the sil­ver chain your­self, with­out know­ing how to do it cor­rect­ly. After all, chem­i­cal com­pounds can seri­ous­ly dam­age it.

To be sure of the integri­ty and safe­ty of the prod­uct after clean­ing, it is bet­ter to give it to a pro­fes­sion­al jew­el­er.

How to clean a silver chain at home?

The best clean­ing is pre­ven­tion! Do not allow the prod­uct to come into con­tact with house­hold chem­i­cals, sweat, chlo­rine, objects con­tain­ing sul­fur, wool, latex, may­on­naise.

Get into the habit of remov­ing all jew­el­ry while doing house­work.

You should not wear a sil­ver chain while in the sun.

While sun­bathing or swim­ming in the sea, it is bet­ter to put sil­ver jew­el­ry in a bag.

Before leav­ing the house, putting on jew­el­ry should be the last thing. Per­fumes and cos­met­ics accel­er­ate the tar­nish­ing of sil­ver.

Sil­ver should be stored in such a way that it comes into con­tact with oxy­gen as lit­tle as pos­si­ble. For this pur­pose, sep­a­rate bags are best suit­ed.

Use­ful hack! To reduce mois­ture and min­i­mize tar­nish­ing, place a piece of chalk in a box or jew­el­ry box. Then all clean­ing will con­sist in wash­ing with a mild soapy solu­tion.

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