How to clean a gold ring? — SILVERS.

Gold jew­el­ry should be in good con­di­tion so that it radi­ates beau­ty every time you wear it. A gold ring can be seen on the fin­ger of every girl. They come in dif­fer­ent shapes, struc­tures, and have dif­fer­ent gloss and shine. Although gold does not tar­nish as eas­i­ly as sil­ver, it does lose its lus­ter from time to time. If your gold jew­el­ry is look­ing a lit­tle dull, don’t wor­ry — a thor­ough clean­ing will make it brand new again! You don’t even need to use expen­sive jew­el­ry clean­ers to keep your gold shin­ing and sparkling for a long time. If you do not know how to clean a gold ring eas­i­ly, the fol­low­ing infor­ma­tion will be use­ful for you.

How to clean a gold ring from dirt?

Gold is a fair­ly soft met­al that scratch­es eas­i­ly. If you want to clean it from var­i­ous dirt, fol­low sim­ple rules.

1. Fill a bowl with warm water and add a small amount of soap or dish­wash­ing deter­gent to make a mild clean­ing solu­tion.
2. Put your gold jew­el­ry in the pre­pared solu­tion and leave them in it for 20–30 min­utes. Do you use a soft­er brush or a cloth to clean the jew­el­ry from dirt.
3. Wash off excess soap from jew­el­ry with water.
4. Dry your jew­el­ry with a clean tow­el. Since cer­tain hard-to-reach areas can be wiped dry, allow them to air dry com­plete­ly before putting them on.

In addi­tion, you can clean a gold ring with ammo­nia at home. To do this, soak the jew­el­ry for about a minute in a solu­tion of ammo­nia and plain water, and then rinse them thor­ough­ly with clean water. How­ev­er, do not use this method often, because it can dis­col­or the jew­el­ry.

How to clean a gold ring with a stone?

Jew­el­ry with var­i­ous stones that are glued to their set­ting or insert­ed into spe­cial­ly des­ig­nat­ed places, set­ting, should not be immersed in water. Warm water can loosen the glue, which can cause your gem­stones to fall out, espe­cial­ly with a thor­ough brush­ing. Although some durable stones such as dia­monds, emer­alds, sap­phires are not eas­i­ly dam­aged, there are many gem­stones that should not be soaked in water for a long time (such as emer­ald or onyx). For these types of jew­el­ry, use a spe­cial clean­ing method that avoids com­plete immer­sion in water. It is very easy to clean a tar­nished gold ring at home with a min­i­mal set of tools.

To pre­serve the orig­i­nal appear­ance of acces­sories, wipe them with a damp, soapy cloth. To do this, make a small amount of soap solu­tion, dip a soft, gen­tle tow­el in it and care­ful­ly clean your jew­el­ry. Gen­tly dab the wet cloth on the orna­ment, try­ing to absorb the remain­ing soap suds. Place the jew­el­ry on a clean and dry tow­el so that it dries well. If you do not know how to clean a gold ring with a dia­mond your­self, ask for help from pro­fes­sion­als.

How to prop­er­ly clean a gold ring at home?

Don’t know how to clean a gold wed­ding ring so that it does not lose its orig­i­nal appear­ance? You should remem­ber that gold is not dif­fi­cult to clean, but the exact clean­ing method should depend on whether your gold rings have pre­cious stones or not. There are sev­er­al effec­tive meth­ods that can pre­serve the shine and beau­ty of your gold jew­el­ry.

1. Clean the gold ring with soda. Bak­ing soda is slight­ly alka­line in nature. So, it reacts with the acids in the mud, dust and residue on the met­al, form­ing car­bon diox­ide bub­bles that help loosen the debris. For clean­ing, you need to mix bak­ing soda and water. Take an old soft-bris­tled tooth­brush and dip it in the bak­ing soda mix­ture. Care­ful­ly clean the jew­el­ry with a tooth­brush.
2. Clean the gold ring with vine­gar. Clean­ing your gold and gem­stones with vine­gar is a com­mon prac­tice. Sim­ply drop the jew­el­ry into a jar of vine­gar and leave for 10–15 min­utes, shak­ing occa­sion­al­ly. If nec­es­sary, remove and clean with a soft-bris­tled tooth­brush.
3. Before clean­ing a gold ring with pearls, you should know that it eas­i­ly los­es its shine. Real pearls, cul­tured or arti­fi­cial, you must clean it thor­ough­ly. First, put the strand on a soft cloth. Dip a clean small make­up brush into a mix­ture of warm water and a small amount of sham­poo and trace each pearl. To fin­ish, rinse the stone with a clean, well-wrung damp cloth. Allow it to dry to pre­vent sep­a­ra­tion and to make the ring sparkle in the sun. This non-soak fin­ish is also good for turquoise, anoth­er porous stone.

For hard-to-reach areas that are dif­fi­cult to clean with sim­ple soak­ing or wip­ing, you can use a soft-bris­tled tooth­brush. Use a tooth­brush to clean hard-to-reach areas, such as gold engrav­ings, that have accu­mu­lat­ed dirt. At the same time, you should remem­ber that in order to clean the gold ring so that it shines, it is nec­es­sary to use only a tooth­brush with soft bris­tles and be care­ful with clean­ing. If your jew­el­ry needs a thor­ough clean­ing, it’s best to have it pro­fes­sion­al­ly cleaned to avoid any dam­age.

If you want your jew­el­ry to last you as long as pos­si­ble, don’t for­get to take it off before show­er­ing or while swim­ming. Chlo­rine, which is con­tained in tap water, dis­col­ors gold and dam­ages fine details of acces­sories. Do not com­bine your appli­ance with your gold rings, as bleach and oth­er chem­i­cals used in house­hold clean­ers can dam­age your jew­el­ry. Also, don’t for­get that gold is a soft met­al and it scratch­es eas­i­ly. Keep gold rings sep­a­rate from oth­er jew­el­ry, as most oth­er met­als can eas­i­ly scratch gold. It is bet­ter to store gold rings in small bags or in a sep­a­rate jew­el­ry box.

Now you know how to quick­ly clean a gold ring at home, we wish you good luck in all your endeav­ors.