Jewellery Cleaning 101: Tips to Clean your Diamond and Gem Jewellery
Overtime, your jewellery can lose its sparkle and shinny appeal. Scratches and tarnishing may occur from contact to chemicals and other objects. Well, you can now restore the sparkle and shinny appeal of your jewellery at the same time removes those scratches by following the effective tips in cleaning your diamond and gem Jewellery that are stated below.
- Never allow your diamond and gem Jewellery to come in contact with bleach or chlorine. It is an essential idea to take off the jewelry before doing activities that comes in contact with harsh chemicals.
- Your diamond and gem Jewellery will quickly tarnish when exposed to humid climates hence polishing and cleaning needs to be as frequent as possible.
- Most of the time, you may clean your jewelry by yourself but there are also instances that you need to seek for professional help. If you have jewellery that is heavily tarnished, then you need to consider professional cleaning and polishing processes. This will allow your jewellery to shine and sparkle again.
- Check the jewellery stones if these are securely set and attach to the jewellery. This is through gently wiggling each of the stone in your jewellery item.
- If there is tarnishing or scratches, you can make use of a polishing cloth to restore the sparkling and shinning features of your jewellery. This is also an ideal way to remove some light scratches that are found on it.
- Soak your jewellery as if you are a professional. For best cleaning result, you may use an Ultrasonic jewellery cleaner. If you don’t have the so called ultrasonic, you may try to use small bowl at home. Pour some warm water to the bowl with some soap and a little quantity of ammonia. This is considered to be an essential cleaning mixture that has been used by jewellery cleaning industries. This cleaning mixture is essential for all types of jewellery such as emeralds, opals and pearl. Allow your jewellery to soak in this mixture for about fifteen minutes.
- After fifteen minutes, you may now take your jewellery out of the bowl and make use of a soft brush to lightly clean its areas.
- Rinse the jewellery with the use of cold water.
- Dry the jewellery using soft and clean towel. Paper towels can also be used provided that you will not be over rubbing the stones in the jewellery. Compressed air also works and drying it with the use of a steam is also beneficial.
- If you have jewellery with opal stone that is not cleaned over time, try to soak it in baby oil for 1 to 2 days. This can remove all the dirt as well as simple cracks on the opal stone.
Ben the jeweller wants to help you keep your jewellery shiny and sparkling all the time. We offer a complimentary clean and polish for all our clients and we welcome the opportunity to look after your jewellery too.