How to clean a silver bracelet at home — a guide for dummies

If the sil­ver jew­el­ry is not plat­ed with gold or rhodi­um, it will begin to dark­en over time. Sil­ver can also dark­en as a result of a chem­i­cal reac­tion. Today we will learn how to clean a sil­ver bracelet.

How to clean a Pan­do­ra sil­ver bracelet at home?

There are many ways to clean a Pan­do­ra sil­ver bracelet. There are many clean­ing liq­uids and all kinds of pastes impreg­nat­ed with wipes pol­ish­es from pop­u­lar man­u­fac­tur­ers. How­ev­er, not always one of the above at the right time may be at hand. For such cas­es, you need to under­stand how to clean a sil­ver bracelet at home with impro­vised means.

How to clean a Pan­do­ra sil­ver bracelet quick­ly and effec­tive­ly?

How to clean a sil­ver bracelet from dirt? This ques­tion wor­ries many. Well, it’s time to get acquaint­ed with the most com­mon clean­ing options.

Method num­ber 1: lip­stick clean­ing

It’s hard to believe, but lip­stick is known as one of the best sil­ver jew­el­ry clean­ers. This is due to the fact that tita­ni­um diox­ide is one of the com­po­nents of this cos­met­ic item. This com­po­nent per­fect­ly cleans sil­ver from dirt. Also, lip­stick con­tains a large per­cent­age of fat. It is the fat that will help to pol­ish the prod­uct to a shine.

We take any tube and cot­ton pad.

We take a bracelet, grease it with lip­stick and rub it to a squeak.

The prod­uct will begin to light­en in just a few min­utes.

But it should be borne in mind that this clean­ing method will be effec­tive only on a smooth sur­face.

Method num­ber 2: clean­ing sil­ver using tooth­paste

You can clean your sil­ver bracelet with tooth­paste. The paste con­tains sand, chalk and oth­er micropar­ti­cles that have a pol­ish­ing effect. They do not scratch jew­el­ry, and quick­ly relieve them of plaque.

The paste must be applied to a damp brush with soft bris­tles. They gen­tly clean the sur­face and pen­e­trate deeply between the dec­o­rat­ed weav­ing of the bracelet. At the end, it is worth rins­ing the jew­el­ry under run­ning warm water and rub­bing it with a microfiber cloth.

Method num­ber 3: clean sil­ver with egg yolk

This method is quite ancient. It was in demand even when sil­ver was val­ued more than gold.

You need to moist­en a cot­ton swab in the yolk and rub the bracelet. When the mix­ture dries, it must be thor­ough­ly washed off with water. After such clean­ing, the bracelet will not only look like new, but will not get dirty for a long time. Egg yolk removes oxides that dark­en sil­ver.

Method num­ber 4: clean­ing the bracelet using alu­minum foil and soda

This is the fastest and most effi­cient way to clean sil­ver. To clean the bracelet from lay­ers, you need to take a deep bowl and put alu­minum foil and the bracelet itself on the bot­tom. Next, boil water and add bak­ing soda or soda ash to it (50 grams of soda per 1 liter of water). We wait until the solu­tion stops bub­bling, and fill the sil­ver item with this mix­ture. Soda and alu­minum react with sil­ver sul­fide, as a result of which sil­ver begins to light­en. At the end of the bracelet, you need to rinse it under run­ning water and dry it.

Method num­ber 5: clean­ing sil­ver with ammo­nia and hydro­gen per­ox­ide

Hydro­gen per­ox­ide and ammo­nia must be mixed in equal parts. Then put the bracelet into the result­ing mix­ture. The con­tain­er should be closed as tight­ly as pos­si­ble, since the vapors of the ammo­nia solu­tion have a strong and pun­gent odor. Leave the jew­el­ry in the solu­tion for 20 min­utes, then rinse it thor­ough­ly under run­ning water and dry it.

Method num­ber 6: clean­ing the bracelet with ammo­nia

Clean­ing even the dirt­i­est sil­ver bracelet is pos­si­ble with ordi­nary ammo­nia. This method is suit­able not only for clas­sic prod­ucts, but also for mod­els of Pan­do­ra bracelets, which are dom­i­nat­ed by pearls, amethyst, turquoise or oth­er stones. Pour ammo­nia into a closed bot­tle, put our sil­ver prod­uct there and shake vig­or­ous­ly. Final­ly, rinse the bracelet under water and wipe dry. Not only sil­ver, but also cloud­ed stones after such clean­ing will shine as before.

Of all the above meth­ods, clean­ing with ammo­nia and soda is the most pop­u­lar. But it is only suit­able for bracelets with­out stones, since these dec­o­ra­tive ele­ments can come off dur­ing soak­ing.

Lip­stick or tooth­paste will clean the sil­ver item the fastest. If you are in a hur­ry, it is bet­ter to give pref­er­ence to this option.

You can dry the sil­ver bracelet with a soft nat­ur­al cloth made of wool or flan­nel. If after you have cleaned the piece of jew­el­ry, there are still dark areas on it, rub it with a reg­u­lar eras­er. It helps to get rid of such black­outs on smooth sur­faces.

Also, to make your favorite sil­ver design­er bracelet dark­en as lit­tle as pos­si­ble, it can be treat­ed with a spe­cial col­or­less jew­el­ry var­nish. This is an excel­lent pre­ven­tion of dark­en­ing sil­ver jew­el­ry.

We hope this arti­cle was help­ful to you. Now you know how you can clean a world famous brand sil­ver bracelet at home with­out spend­ing expen­sive clean­ing prod­ucts. By the way, you can buy the lat­est mod­els of Pan­do­ra bracelets at any time in our spe­cial­ized online store.