Wednesday 27 July 2011

Top Ways to Clean Silver


Do you like tarnished silver? You wish it were clean and shiny as new? Try the following ways to clean silver and make it shine again.


Cleaning silver is not that hard as it seems. It is up to you to maintain your jewelery spotless and glamourous. Cleaning silver is in no way different than any household routine, sofa cleaning, carpet cleaning, they all require using the right products and gentle immediate care. If you want to learn how to clean silver the first thing you should know is that polishing may be carried out even if there are no visible marks and tarnish. Be preventive.

Whenever you notice that you ring is losing its shine, it is high time you cleaned it. It gets darker, dull, but it will take you a couple of minutes to make it spick and span as it used to be.

Green cleaning silver items may seem strange, but what about using harmless household products, that won't harm the silver and are gentle to your health. 

Here is the recipe:

warm water
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
foil (or an aluminium bowl)

Now mix the ingredients in a bowl, covered with the foil. Stir well and soak the silver item. One of the basic secrets in cleaning silver is to know for how long to leave it in the solution. When there are some encrusted gems and precious stones, you should be very gentle, so that they won't fall off.

Another thing that sofa cleaning and cleaning silver have in common is that prevention is the best way to keep it as good as new for longer. Silver reacts with oxygen, and may lose shine upon contact with sweat and skin. Before and after putting on silver items, you can make a quick scrubbing with baking soda on a soft cloth.

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