Tuesday, November 20, 2007

How to Clean Your Jewelry

By Love pearls jewelry store - Liang
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As valuable adornment, jewelry has its special trait, which needs special care. This article aims to demonstrate several methods to clean jewelry and reveal some aspects desert attention.Generally speaking, there are two ways to clean jewelry. One is manual clean, and the other is mechanical clean. As for manual clean, a simple means, a bowl of warm water, a soft brush and some cleansing lotion will be okay. Put the jewelry on a piece of cloth and drop a drip of cleansing lotion into the bowl of water. Now dip that water with the brush and clean the jewelry carefully and softly. Do not use tap water to clean jewelry, especially pearl whose gloss tap water may harm. When cleaning up, put the jewelry to a drafty place and wait it dry. But don’t put it in the sun directly or it may be damaged because of ultraviolet radiation. Before the water drains, you must check up the jewelry in case of washing it away. Some people mistake toothpaste can clean jewelry clearly. In fact, toothpaste isn’t applicable to some jewelry such as pearl, because some materials in toothpaste will scratch the smooth surface of this kind of jewelry. It is appropriate to do the cleaning once a week, if the jewelry is adorned usually. Honestly, this is the easiest way to clean jewelry. It only takes you a little time and you get your jewelry as clean as before. However, for some jewelry, ring as an example, some dirt on the edge may hard to clean with the brush.
As to mechanical clean, ultrasonic cleaner is most popular. It has great effect on cleaning jewelry, for it can clean out something like oil spot or dirt on the jewelry which the brush fails to reach. Definitely, ultrasonic cleaner has strong clean function. Nevertheless, it is not fit for all kinds of jewelry. Some jewelry, for instance pearl, its structure is so special that it will be destroyed by using ultrasonic cleaner. Another mechanical means are to use boil water and steam to clean jewelry. Regarding to boil water, you should warm up the jewelry before put it into boil water. Some jewelry, for example beryl, is so vulnerable that it is influenced seriously by temperature shift, which is difficult to predict the consequence. Boil water should be used with caution. Steam clean is effective for metal jewelry. But if it is used on delicate jewelry, it will cause problems. All in all, ultrasonic cleaner is more widely used and clean jewelry more completely than the other two means. Although ultrasonic cleaner is useful for jewelry cleaning, it can’t be used frequently in case that the jewelry shakes to loose.
The methods above have both advantages and disadvantages. Different jewelry has different trait and different cleaning way. So decide your methods considering of your jewelry. Reproduction (of information in this article) is encouraged. When reproducing this material, the source and author must be noted/mentioned, and the source material must be linked. http://www.lpearls.com - Liang

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