How to clean silver and gold and return them to their original shine

In order for gold and sil­ver jew­el­ry to not dark­en and always look like new, it is nec­es­sary to take care of them prop­er­ly. You can keep their beau­ti­ful shine by fol­low­ing a few sim­ple rules.

How to properly store jewelry

Effec­tive stor­age of jew­el­ry lim­its its con­tact with air as much as pos­si­ble. Sim­ple bags are the sim­plest and cheap­est method of pro­tect­ing jew­el­ry. Each of the cus­tomers 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 stor­ing each item sep­a­rate­ly — in a spe­cial box, which has com­part­ments for dec­o­ra­tive ele­ments of dif­fer­ent sizes.

How to restore the shine of silver and gold at home

The neg­a­tive impact of the envi­ron­ment, con­tact with human skin and then man­i­fests itself on jew­el­ry with a dark coat­ing. You can imme­di­ate­ly return the shine of sil­ver and gold with the help of a cloth made of soft fab­ric or a spe­cial nap­kin. It is nec­es­sary to care­ful­ly wipe the prod­uct in the place of appear­ance of stains. After restor­ing the uni­form shine of sil­ver or gold jew­el­ry, it is nec­es­sary to wash the prod­uct in warm water and care­ful­ly wipe it dry. 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 need­ed.

How to restore the shine of silver with a toothbrush and toothpaste

In the absence of a spe­cial cloth for clean­ing jew­el­ry, uni­form shine can be restored by care­ful­ly treat­ing the jew­el­ry with a soft brush and tooth­paste. In order not to scratch the sur­face, it is impor­tant to use tooth­paste of a uni­form con­sis­ten­cy and with­out bright dyes, with­out the con­tent of large par­ti­cles, micro­gran­ules, whiten­ing com­po­nents and sodi­um.

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

How to clean gold to shine using improvised means

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

Place the alu­minum foil in a mug or bowl (not a met­al one!) 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 — thor­ough­ly mix the solu­tion and put the jew­el­ry in it for 15 min­utes (until the water cools down com­plete­ly).

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 restora­tion of uni­form shine, the sur­face should be thor­ough­ly washed in warm water and wiped dry.

How to restore silver shine using folk remedies

• Using ash to clean sil­ver and gold is one of the old­est ways to refresh jew­el­ry or cut­lery made of these met­als. To do this, you need to pour a small amount of ash on a wet cot­ton cloth and wipe the soiled with a flan­nel cloth.

• Car­bon­at­ed drinks “7 Up” and “Coca-Cola” con­tain acid, which effec­tive­ly dis­solves dark plaque. To do this, you need to pour a suf­fi­cient amount of drink into the con­tain­er so that the objects 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 object.

• A vod­ka bath — soak­ing prod­ucts in vod­ka or alco­hol — is used to clean less black­ened items. First, wash the jew­el­ry with soap and water and rinse. Then place 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 broth after pota­toes. Rings, brooches, ear­rings, bracelets should be washed in warm soapy water. Then — in cooled water after boiled pota­toes and care­ful­ly pol­ish with a soft flan­nel cloth.

• Sil­ver is well cleaned with chalk. To do this, you need to rub crushed chalk, to which water has been 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 details — the lime scratch­es the sur­face very much!

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

• Chick­en egg. It is nec­es­sary to apply whipped egg white foam on 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 it in sour milk for half an hour. Then wash and pol­ish with a soft cloth.

What do 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 shine. Thanks to it, the jew­el­ry again acquires a fresh look and col­or. The pro­fes­sion­al prepa­ra­tion sig­nif­i­cant­ly delays the dark­en­ing process. It is used not only to clean sil­ver, but also gold.

To do this, you need to put sil­ver jew­el­ry in a bot­tle with liq­uid. After a few sec­onds, remove them with pli­ers or tongs. Wash under run­ning water. In order to avoid aller­gies, der­ma­tol­o­gists rec­om­mend addi­tion­al­ly wash­ing 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 prod­ucts.

Gold jew­el­ry is cleaned much faster than sil­ver jew­el­ry. On aver­age — in 10 min­utes. After pro­cess­ing, they look like new. Jew­el­ry clean­ing liq­uid is designed for mul­ti­ple uses. 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 a vin­tage look and have dec­o­ra­tive oxi­dized places;

• jew­el­ry made of gold-plat­ed sil­ver. The thick­ness of the gold lay­er is mea­sured in microns, so when pol­ish­ing, grind­ing or clean­ing, this thin lay­er of gold is eas­i­ly erased. The orig­i­nal sil­ver col­or will come out on top;

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

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