How to clean silver: jewelry cleaning at home, items with and without stones

Silver - a favorite of many metals. Anyway, most people probably kept silverware. It can be as cutlery, and jewelry. Over time, these products darken, becoming dirty black color. Every owner wants to and decorations on it looked nice, and the house still sparkled.

The need for cleaning jewelery

The problem is that any metal corrode. Even silver, despite the fact that the precious metals are less susceptible to this process, by interaction with air oxidized. Air with moisture and sulfur contained in them just make it dark.

Restore his former glory as possible, you just have to clean up and get rid of plaque sulfur. How to do it, and whether this is possible in the home? Everything is possible, you need to carefully remove the black, to ruin a good thing. In most cases, people taking the wrong action and believe that the quality will only jeweler. Actually not so bad - there are enough methods useful at home.

Kit for silver

It is best to go in jewerely store and ask there about the presence of detergent. But why pay if some cleaners can find at home.

In every house there is always one or another means by which to clean the silver thing. That's what "medicine" can "cure" your silver cross, a favorite spoon, expensive coin:

• ammonia and hydrogen peroxide;
• Food foil;
• soda and salt;
• vinegar, and citric acid;
• toothpaste (dentifrice).

But this does not mean that when cleaning silver is sufficient to take any of these substances. We need to know some of the nuances, which include:

• the presence of the sample, and then, what is the standard;
• how much darkened thing;
• Are present in jewelry gems.

Only then choose the right cleaning agent.

The use of soda and aluminum foil

This cleaning method suitable for those products where no precious or semi-precious stones. The method is considered the most effective and cheap. There are several options to implement at home cleaning silver objects by means of calcium carbonate and metal paper. All of them are related to boiling and soap.

1. It is commonly used enameled pan. The pan is filled about 1 liter of water and covered with two tablespoons baking soda. In addition, aluminum paper and rolled into small balls, too, throw them into the water. The essence of the method is that aluminum takes silver sulfur. Boil the items in the solution depending on the degree of contamination: it could be two minutes and half an hour. After that, boiling the product is washed with soap and water.
2. A bit of a modified version implies in silver wrapping paper and foil. There also poured soda. The bundle is put in a pan with soapy water, put the gas and brought to the boil. After boiling, removed from heat and cooled with cold water in ten minutes.
3. It can be done differently. The bottom of an empty aluminum pan veiled paper, put the silver things, fall asleep their soda and pour boiling water. Repeat if necessary.
4. In another embodiment, in half a liter of water is added to two tablespoons of soda and calcium carbonate, all mixed in water. After boiling in boiling water thrown pieces of foil. The pan is removed from heat and placed in a hot water silver. After about fifteen minutes, the silver can be removed. In this cleaning is finished.
5. Since the whole point of aluminum's ability to remove sulfur, it is possible to use an aluminum pan instead of paper. It is poured half a liter of water. Into the water was added 10 grams of soda ash, 10 grams of salt and 10 ml of any liquid dishwashing detergent. The silver solution is put product. Boil for 30 minutes.

By other means

There are other ways to clean silver at home. Subject to all of the recommendations can be returned to its former glory and adornment appearance.

1. If the contamination is small, it helps him ammonia or vinegar. Clean them is simple - to moisten the cloth or towel and wipe the object. For best results, it helps to soak in one of these fluids. It is necessary to soak for a few hours and sometimes shaken.
2. Clear silver plaque from the dark and helps ordinary lemon acid. In half a liter of water is added to 100 grams of acid, and is put to the same small piece of copper. In a water bath this liquid is brought to a boil and then put it in objects requiring cleaning. Applied and already known recipe boiling with soda, which is used instead of citric acid.
3. Simple jewelry, such as chains and rings without stones, and patterns can be cleaned salt and soda, in equal proportions, dissolved in water. The solution was boiled for 30 minutes together with the silver things located there.
4. A few years ago it was possible to clean jewelry tooth powder or paste. The method is very suitable to be cleaned even products with stones. It was done very carefully, and in a circular motion with a soft brush. Unfortunately, the quality of toothpaste is such that it is not able to effectively clean the silver.
5. A very unusual way to clean silver on black - the use of potatoes. The water that remains from cooking potatoes, used as a cleaning agent, if it is two hours drop decoration. Those who have tried it say that it is possible even at night to leave the money in boiled potatoes or mashed potatoes. In the morning wash the product with water and well wiped with a dry cloth.

Cleaning silver cross

A cross is a complex piece of jewelry and cleaning it not as easy as it seems. The article may be embossed, with convex patternAnd jeweled. Therefore, in order to clean the jewelry, a number of procedures performed:

• The first thing you need to figure out what the cross really made of silver. The fact that they are often made of tin, and clean the metal should be different.
• If the metal is one that is required, the second important point is the lack of precious stones.
• The degree of contamination depends on the way that will be cleaned cross.
• Few contaminated product without inserts treated detergent solution.
• In the case of green plaque treat with hydrogen peroxide.
• More dirty things boiled. But in any solution otmokanie lasts a maximum of ten hours.
• After otmokaniya carry out water treatment. The product was washed with tap water and wiped dry.
• The final step will be polished. Polish at home silver cross will toothpowder.

The method is applicable to all jewelry that correspond to the rules described above.

helpful hints

After the cleaning was carried out, the silver things for a long time will forget the unpleasant procedure for them. Protect your belongings in the future do not run them to a state of blackness. It will therefore be necessary to take care of creation of favorable conditions in the home store:

1. Silver does not like moisture. The room itself should be more or less dry. Silver articles should not be near water sources.
2. Will promote oxidation and medicines. That's why medications and household chemicals needed locked away from the precious metal.
3. Contrary to prevailing opinion, the silver He does not like makeup.

Of course, this is not a complete guarantee against darkening, but still her life in such a way can be extended. Purifier of silver in the future will be easier, thanks to compliance with the conditions of storage. By the way, the stones in jewelery love the sun. Therefore, the stones will be more convenient in a warm and light place. And do not forget that the gems on their own can not be cleaned, even with a special paste jewelery. And some decorations, such as amber, pearls or coral, a specialist can properly cleaned.

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