Jewelry Education 101: You Have to Clean Your Jewelry!!!
Of all the musts a jewelry owner must do is that he or she must take care of his/her jewelry. Remember that jewelry is rather expensive, and as metals are prone to tarnishing and dulling, especially when it’s not well taken care of, there is a need to invest in cleaning materials for your jewelry.
Silver jewelry, for example, turns dark or greenish, in a process called oxidization. When silver jewelry oxidize, the ugly shade that forms on your precious trinkets, called tarnish, destroys the original beauty of your precious jewelry. And for that, you need cleaners to bring back the original luster and shine to your silver jewelry.
To clean your jewelry, you need the following:
-Gold, Silver, or Delicate Jewelry cleaners. A specific cleaner is meant for gold, silver or the stones/pearls set in your jewelry. This is so because metal, silver, or the stones, are made of different elements, and different chemicals are needed to revitalize and enhance each jewelry variant.
-Jewelry Polishing Cloths, or Jewelry Wipes. The difference between the two jewelry cleaners lie in their disposability. The cloths, composed of two layers, one for cleaning and the other for polishing, can be reused. The wipes are disposable. In my experience, it is better to use the disposables. Because in cleaning metals, the tarnish tends to stain the cloth or material that has been used to wipe the jewelry piece. So I would recommend the Jewelry Wipes instead.
-A Jewelry Cleansing Gel and Brush would be good for those hard-to-reach areas in your jewelry pieces. What’s more, you can actually clean your jewelry in just a minute with this kit.
If you are really bent on treating your jewelry like babies, you can also use the Sonic Supreme Jewelry Bath offered by Connoisseurs at MyJewelryBox.com. It cleans your jewelry through its advanced sonic/sound wave technology. Really pampering your silver/gold/platinum jewelry!
So before your jewelry starts to look antique, or if you want to bring your antique jewelry back to life, you better take care of them, through cleaning them with any of these options. We spend money on our jewelry, we should spend money to keep them looking amazing!