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Can
silver jewelry be cleaned with a silver polish?
Yes, but make sure you do not use a petroleum based cleaner. Use a water
rinse able cleaner so the polish will easily rinse off with warm water. Make sure
you don't place any non-toxic cleaner near foods, pets or young children.
Go with a natural and non-toxic cleaner.
to clean gold
jewelry?
It is important that
you remove dull tarnish with a natural, non-toxic professional
jewelry tarnish remover. To clean jewelry and remove the tarnish from jewelry
metals means that you will need a cleaner that will do both. There are
several gold cleaners in drug, grocery and jewelry stores. These cleaners
will remove body oils and other foreign objects from jewelry but they do not
remove t-a-r-n-i-s-h. If
your goal is to make your gold shine again then you need to do more than
to just clean your gold. The original shiny finish on your gold has been
cover up with layers of dull tarnish. Dullness on gold is a sure sign of tarnish.
Pure 24K gold does not tarnish but alloy metal have
been added to jewelry gold to make it stronger for making jewelry. Pure gold
does not tarnish but jewelry with alloy metals added do become dull. Gold jewelry
made in the United States are not made with pure gold. Soft
10K and 12K gold (Black Hill Gold Jewelry) as well as 14K and 18K gold
jewelry absolutely do tarnish and become dull. 22K
gold jewelry in India is very hard - yet, it becomes tarnished and it can be
cleaned and shiny with a tarnish remover.
What about cleaning platinum,
titanium and palladium jewelry?
Many commercial cleaners claim they clean platinum, titanium and
palladium jewelry but these cleaners
are unable to remove tarnish from these precious jewelry metals.
Removing tarnish is the main purpose for cleaning precious jewelry metals.
Unless you clean off
the brown tarnish from platinum and the black tarnish from gold, titanium and
palladium jewelry you
will end up with the same old - dull looking jewelry
metals - after the
warm rinse water dries.
What about
just cleaning jewelry metals with a detergent soap and warm water.
This is a jeweler's joke.
Just soap and warm water is a great technique for removing
grease and oils from jewelry but not for removing tarnish. This is a great
way to clean
soft gemstones and eyeglass
lenses, but it is not the way to clean tarnish from jewelry
metals. Jewelers who suggest the detergent soap and warm water strategy will
also suggest that they will clean your gold or platinum as a service - in their
store buffing center.
Removing tarnish
with a buffing wheel machine is the most costly way for gold and platinum
customers to restore
jewelry metals over the long term because the buffing
wheel also removes the metal itself.
After you have removed tarnish from
your jewelry metals with a tarnish remover - you are ready to finish
cleaning
your gemstones and metals in our Natural Diamonds and Pearls jewelry
cleaner. Soap and
tooth paste are both much better than cleaning with an ammonia cleaner, however, you
need to make sure your soap and toothpaste doesn't leave a white film on the
bottoms of the gemstones.
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