Cleaning jewellery

[bustagasket]

I have been cleaning my sterling jewellery with hot water, soda crystals and tin foil.

I'm no chemist so don't ask me how its works, but I line a container with tin foil, put the jewellery on top of the tin foil, sprinkle some soda crystals on top and then add hot water. It will fizz and bubble - it will help if you agitate it a bit, and then the tarnish will transfer from the silver to the tin foil.

I then rinse everything VERY thoroughly and dry it all, and wipe over with a silver cloth (in the hope that it will prevent it from tarninshing again too quick!)

It seems to work well.

i like the sound of that

[glen]

for cleaning tarnished silver the best stuff in the world is:
Goddards-Hotel-Silver-Dip

to clean antique and older jewellery requires specialist methods as alot of antique pieces cant be cleaned the same as modern techniques for many reasons nor be worked on the same when repairing.

[angel85]

Love this forum! Guarenteed useful feedback. Cheers guys.

[Dennis]

Sorry to be pedantic, but the foil should be aluminium as in cooking foil,not tin.

The method works well,but tends to reverse if left for more than 4 minutes or

so.Dennis.

[vannetta]

Hi,

you can use toothpaste with a soft brush to clean silver jewellery. It works really well and very effective.

Good luck