How to Care for Your Gold and Silver Jewelry

How to care for jewelry that is made of gold?

Every time you take off your gold jewelry which is much more luxury than the cheap Korean jewelry, it should be specially cleaned with a dry and clean cloth that is made of microfiber. If you don’t have a microfiber cloth, the cloth of flannel or suede works well also. You could clean your jewelry which gets not much dirty at home with soapy water or a glass of water that you have add 5-10 drops of alcohol in. The jewelry should be rinsed thoroughly to make sure that you don’t leave the detergent on the surface of it.

So, what if the jewelry gets really dirty? To clean dirty jewelry, you need to place it the water with proper detergent or solution which is used to wash dishes, and stand for one day. It must be chosen carefully, since the components might do harm to your gold jewelry. It’s amazing that onion juice can make your jewelry which has been darkened bright again.

How to care for jewelry that is made of silver?

Silver jewelry is vulnerable to lose its luster more than the jewelry that is made of other precious metals. In view of that, you need to treat them more gently and carefully. To clean silver jewelry you need to use a soft thick cloth which is made from microfiber or cotton flannel. Don’t forget to put the jewelry back to the flower carved jewelry box after wearing or cleaning.

To remove surface dark spots can wash them in warm soapy water and cleanse it with the napkin from a soft thick fabric soaked in ammonia alcohol. After cleaning, the decoration should be rinsed in clean water and dried. Please note that to use this method to clean jewelry with decorative blackened coating is not necessary. Silver, doesn’t like other metals, and needs to be cleaned with special ways to care.