How to Care for Your Jewelry
How to Care for Your Diamond, Gold and Pearl Jewelry
The jewelry you really treasure is more than a sparkly combination of diamonds, metals, and gemstones. Each piece has personal meaning, and often a rich history attached to it close to your heart and your hands.
Taking time to care for your jewelry, whether heirloom or cutting edge, is easy, and can provide a relaxing routine when you know a few simple tricks.
Tips for Cleaning Jewelry at Home
Dispense with costly jewelry cleaners (save the money for your next little bauble), and instead learn some tried and true methods using common household products.Different gems and materials require different cleaning products to avoid causing damage or undue wear, so follow these ideas and watch as dull jewelry begins to dazzle like new.
Professional Maintenance
The jewelry you really treasure is more than a sparkly combination of diamonds, metals, and gemstones. Each piece has personal meaning, and often a rich history attached to it close to your heart and your hands.Taking time to care for your jewelry, whether heirloom or cutting edge, is easy, and can provide a relaxing routine when you know a few simple tricks.
Pearls should be checked and even restrung after several years of frequent wear.A Knowledgeable professional will look to ensure that knots between each pearl are in place and not in danger of breacking.
Storing Valuable Jewelry
The jewelry you really treasure is more than a sparkly combination of diamonds, metals, and gemstones. Each piece has personal meaning, and often a rich history attached to it close to your heart and your hands.Taking time.
Pearls should be checked and even restrung after several years of frequent wear.A Knowledgeable professional will look to ensure that knots between each pearl are in place and not in danger when you know a few simple tricks.
Here are some specifics to keep in mind when deciding how to arrange and store your favorite jewels.
- Separate gold from its word spreading tarnish, and store in special tarnish cloth.silver is often sold in customized protective tarnish cloth covers, or in presentation boxes that are the ideal storage unit.
- You can make your own covers with this cloth purchased online or at your local fabric shop.
- Think of your delicate and prone to sunbum In fact prolonged exposure to sun can bleach them. Pearls can even be scratched by microscopic crystals in everyday dust. satin lining is ideal for storing pearls, to protect their delicate surface.
- The Sun is hard on many gemstones as well astons like topaz and amethyst, or pink conch-shell cameos away from fading and damage due to sun exposure.
- Gems are best kept way from extremes of heat and cold. Gemological grading Services (GGS) recommends removing fine jewelry when cooking (extreme heat), and removing rings before gardening or clening. They warn that where you place your ring is key to avoiding the heartbreak of lost heirloom or a wedding ring gobbled up in the sink disposal. There is an exception to every rule. and GGS tells us never to remove jewelry when away from home, to avoid having it end up in a restaurant’s lost and found box.
Put some of these tips and tricks to use with your own personal treasures
that you’re preserving them for generations to come.