How and what to clean a silver pendant > Clean a silver pendant with a stone at home.

If a sil­ver pen­dant has lost its lus­ter, there are many ways to restore it to its orig­i­nal shine. We have described the most com­mon ones in this arti­cle.

How to clean a silver pendant at home

Most sil­ver jew­el­ry dark­ens over time.

Accord­ing to folk omens, this indi­cates the occur­rence of a dis­ease, dam­age or a curse on the own­er of the jew­el­ry.

Sci­en­tists have proven that the state of sil­ver worn on the body depends on the com­po­si­tion of a per­son­’s sweat:

• there is a lot of sul­fur in the body — the met­al dark­ens,

• plen­ty of nitro­gen pre­vents brown­ing.

But if the jew­el is stored in a box, but it still dark­ens, it means that there is a lot of hydro­gen sul­fide in the sur­round­ing air.

Before clean­ing, degrease the pen­dant with any deter­gent. Treat curls, depres­sions and bulges with a tooth­brush. And that’s it, you can already use the meth­ods that will be dis­cussed fur­ther.

How to clean a silver pendant with hydrogen peroxide?

Per­ox­ide can elim­i­nate the black­en­ing of sil­ver or, on the con­trary, inten­si­fy it.

This hap­pens because oxy­gen atoms inter­act dif­fer­ent­ly with sil­ver alloys.

Before you clean the sil­ver with a stone and com­plete­ly treat the prod­uct with per­ox­ide, try to treat the inside of the pen­dant or the clasp. If it has turned white, care­ful­ly apply the solu­tion to all the jew­el­ry with a cot­ton sponge.

How to clean a silver pendant with minimal costs?

1. bak­ing soda

This method is only suit­able for small pen­dants. Scratch­es are pos­si­ble, which will be very notice­able on large jew­el­ry.

Mix bak­ing soda with water to the con­sis­ten­cy of gru­el, which you apply to the sur­face of the prod­uct with a soft cloth or tooth­brush. Rinse it with water and wipe with a dry cloth.

2. Salt (ordi­nary kitchen or extra fine — it does­n’t mat­ter)

Pour salt into a pan with a bot­tom cov­ered with foil. Add some water. Put the dec­o­ra­tion there and boil for 10 min­utes. Then — rinse well under the tap and dry com­plete­ly.

3. Ammo­nia (rub­bing alco­hol)

Immerse the pen­dant for 15 min­utes in a solu­tion of ammo­nia and water in a ratio of 1:10. If the pol­lu­tion is strong, then for 30–60 min­utes, but no more. Wipe slight­ly dark­ened jew­el­ry with a moist­ened cot­ton pad. Then the sil­ver should be washed and dried.

4. Cit­ric acid or vine­gar

Dilute 100 g of acid in 0.5 l of water. Solu­tion in a water bath for 15–30 min­utes, plac­ing a pen­dant in it. Then — wash and dry the prod­uct.

5. Coca-Cola

For such a method as clean­ing a sil­ver pen­dant with Coca-Cola, the price is accept­able. You need to pour a lit­tle drink into the con­tain­er and low­er the sil­ver­ware into it. After 12 hours, the jew­el­ry will look and shine like new.

6. tooth­paste

Smooth acces­sories are wiped with a nap­kin with tooth­paste, and embossed ones with a soft-bris­tled brush. But the paste must be with­out sodi­um, aggres­sive addi­tives and dyes, so that the impu­ri­ties react a lit­tle with the met­als that are added to sil­ver for strength. To pre­vent the for­ma­tion of a white coat­ing, after clean­ing, rinse the prod­ucts thor­ough­ly and pol­ish with a soft cloth.

Cleaning a silver pendant from blackening?

You will nev­er guess — lip­stick of any col­or! It should be applied to a microfiber cloth, flan­nel, cot­ton pad and rub the prod­uct with it. It does not scratch the sil­ver sur­face and is eas­i­ly washed off with soapy water.

A slur­ry of ammo­nia and chalk is also suit­able for pen­dants. It is applied to the prod­uct and washed off with water.

Do not pol­ish black­ened sil­ver to a shine! Try­ing to wash off the pati­na, you deprive this orna­ment of sophis­ti­ca­tion, vin­tage and orig­i­nal charm.