How can you clean silver and gold and return them to their original luster

To keep your gold and sil­ver jew­el­ry from tar­nish­ing and always look­ing like new, you need to take prop­er care of it. To keep their beau­ti­ful shine, you can fol­low a few sim­ple rules.

How to properly store jewelry

Effi­cient stor­age of jew­el­ry lim­its its con­tact with air as much as pos­si­ble. Plain pouch­es are the sim­plest and cheap­est method of pro­tect­ing jew­el­ry. Each of the clients of our online store receives a gift bag for stor­ing jew­el­ry pur­chased from us. It pro­tects them from the harm­ful effects of envi­ron­men­tal fac­tors.

To pro­tect against scratch­es, dam­age and mois­ture, jew­el­ers rec­om­mend sav­ing each item sep­a­rate­ly — in a spe­cial box, which has com­part­ments for dec­o­ra­tive ele­ments of dif­fer­ent sizes.

How to restore shine to silver and gold at home

The neg­a­tive impact of the envi­ron­ment, con­tact with human skin and then appears on jew­el­ry with a dark coat­ing. You can return the shine to sil­ver and gold imme­di­ate­ly after the appear­ance with a soft cloth or a spe­cial nap­kin. It is nec­es­sary to gen­tly wipe the prod­uct in the place where stains appear. After restor­ing the uni­form lus­ter of sil­ver or gold jew­el­ry, it is nec­es­sary to rinse the prod­uct in warm water and wipe it dry thor­ough­ly. This is the eas­i­est way, but if the dark­en­ing appeared a long time ago, it is not effec­tive. Stronger and more effi­cient meth­ods will be required.

How to restore shine to silver with a toothbrush and paste

In the absence of a spe­cial cloth for clean­ing jew­el­ry, an even shine can be restored by gen­tly work­ing the jew­el­ry with a soft brush and tooth­paste. In order not to scratch the sur­face, it is impor­tant to use tooth­paste of a homo­ge­neous con­sis­ten­cy and with­out bright dyes, with­out large par­ti­cles, micro­gran­ules, bleach­ing agents and sodi­um.

After remov­ing dark deposits, the prod­uct should be thor­ough­ly rinsed with warm water and wiped dry with a soft cloth.

How to clean gold to a shine using improvised means

Heavy dirt comes off jew­el­ry with the help of four ingre­di­ents that are in every home:

Place alu­minum foil in a mug or bowl (not met­al!) so that it exact­ly fills the bot­tom. Then you need to pour 2 tea­spoons of salt and bak­ing soda and pour 200 ml of hot water (this is about a glass). Then — mix the solu­tion thor­ough­ly and put jew­el­ry in it for 15 min­utes (until the water has com­plete­ly cooled).

If the prod­uct is heav­i­ly soiled, you need to leave it to soak for sev­er­al hours, and then you will have to addi­tion­al­ly clean it with a soft tooth­brush. After restor­ing a uni­form gloss, the sur­faces should be thor­ough­ly rinsed in warm water and wiped dry.

How to restore shine to silver using folk remedies

• Using ash­es to clean sil­ver and gold is one of the old­est ways to fresh­en up jew­el­ry or cut­lery made from these met­als. To do this, pour a small amount of ash onto a damp cot­ton cloth and wipe the con­t­a­m­i­nat­ed ones with a flan­nel cloth.

• Car­bon­at­ed drinks “7 Up” and “Coca-Cola” con­tain acid, which effec­tive­ly dis­solves dark plaque. To do this, pour enough of the drink into the con­tain­er so that the items to be cleaned are com­plete­ly immersed in it. Leave for a while. The dura­tion of soak­ing depends on the degree of con­t­a­m­i­na­tion. Then you need to thor­ough­ly wash and dry the item.

• Vod­ka bath — soak­ing prod­ucts in vod­ka or alco­hol — is used to clean less black­ened items. First, wash your jew­el­ry with soap and water and rinse. Then put the jew­el­ry in one of the men­tioned liq­uids and set aside for a few hours. Then wash the jew­el­ry with soap and rinse with warm water, dry thor­ough­ly.

• Soap solu­tion and decoc­tion after pota­toes. Rings, brooches, ear­rings, bracelets should be washed in warm soapy water. Then — in chilled water after boiled pota­toes and gen­tly pol­ish with a soft flan­nel cloth.

• Sil­ver is well cleaned with chalk. To do this, you need to rub crushed chalk, to which water is added, into a sil­ver object. Then rinse and dry it. How­ev­er, do not use this method for clean­ing jew­el­ry and del­i­cate items with many small parts — lime scratch­es the sur­face a lot!

• A mix­ture of lemon juice and ash­es is an effec­tive but time con­sum­ing method. It is not rec­om­mend­ed for clean­ing del­i­cate items as it leaves marks and scratch­es on the sur­face.

• Egg. Apply whipped egg white foam to the sur­face. Wipe with a flan­nel cloth to achieve the desired effect. Then rinse thor­ough­ly with warm water and dry com­plete­ly.

• Sour milk is rec­om­mend­ed for clean­ing larg­er items. First you just need to wash the prod­uct with soap, rinse with water and put in sour milk for half an hour. Then rinse and pol­ish with a soft cloth.

What you need to know about how to make gold shine and silver quickly?

Liq­uid pro­fes­sion­al jew­el­ry clean­er is the fastest, safest and most con­ve­nient way to clean gold to a shine. Thanks to him, the jew­el­ry regains a fresh look and col­or. A pro­fes­sion­al prepa­ra­tion sig­nif­i­cant­ly delays the dark­en­ing process. It is used for not only clean­ing sil­ver, but also gold.

To do this, put sil­ver jew­el­ry in a bot­tle of liq­uid. After a few sec­onds, remove them with pli­ers or tongs. Wash under run­ning water. To avoid aller­gies, der­ma­tol­o­gists rec­om­mend addi­tion­al­ly rins­ing the prod­ucts in vine­gar, dry­ing and wip­ing thor­ough­ly.

If the jew­el­ry is large, you should pour the liq­uid into anoth­er con­tain­er so that it com­plete­ly cov­ers all the jew­el­ry.

Gold jew­el­ry clears much faster than sil­ver jew­el­ry. On aver­age — in 10 min­utes. After pro­cess­ing, they look like new. Jew­el­ry clean­ing liq­uid is designed for reusable use. It is sold in spe­cial­ized stores and jew­el­ry repair shops.

How­ev­er, there are sit­u­a­tions when it is not nec­es­sary to clean jew­el­ry:

• prod­ucts that are spe­cial­ly “aged” to give them vin­tage and have dec­o­ra­tive oxi­dized places;

• jew­el­ery made of gild­ed sil­ver. The thick­ness of the gold lay­er is mea­sured in microns, so when pol­ish­ing, rub­bing or brush­ing, this thin lay­er of gold can be eas­i­ly rubbed off. The orig­i­nal sil­ver col­or will come out on top;

• acces­sories with stones such as turquoise, pearl, emer­ald, ruby, sap­phire, gar­net, opal, should not be exposed to heat, boil­ing, clean­ing with chlo­rine pow­der, exces­sive wet­ting and dry­ing. This con­tributes to the for­ma­tion of inter­nal cracks, tar­nish­ing and fur­ther dam­age to the prod­uct.

If you have any ques­tions about clean­ing sil­ver or gold items or want to buy high-qual­i­ty jew­el­ry in our online store, please con­tact us right now.