If you’ve got silver jewelry earrings, either from a regular jeweler or you’ve finally found the perfect customized pair, you will most likely be wearing them as much as possible, because if you know anything about silver, you know that wearing it is one of the best ways to keep it looking great. Still there will be times where you have to clean your earrings, and by clean I don’t just mean polish with a cloth, but actually take some time to keep them looking great.
Granted, this doesn’t take long, but it can if you don’t know what you should be using to do the job properly. After all, the last thing you want to do is use soemthing that will damage your silver jewelry earrings, especially if they were a custom job or a gift. What are some tips?
For one thing, you need to take the time to properly learn the best way to clean them and you should never try to do this when you’re rushed as you may end up making a mistake that will cost you in the long run. Consider that most household chemicals are not a good choice to clean jewelry, and although this should be common sense, there are those out there that just don’t have much experience with jewelry beyond the initial purchase.
Of course harsh chemicals, like chlorine or bleach, and silver jewelry earrings and do not mix. The chlorine will in fact damage it as it is acidic, same goes for bleach. So, what can you use? Generally, if nothing else, warm water and gentle soap will do the trick, keeping them clean while being very soft on the silver. If you’re not comfortable with that, you can also ask for local jeweler for what type of solution to buy to clean your specific piece. There are many different products and you’ll want to make sure that you get the right one.
Something else to consider is that, if you truly don’t feel comfortable doing it yourself, or just feel that your time is better served doing other things, your jeweler will most likely be able to clean them for you. Depending on time constraints and orders, there may be a small charge for this, especially if you have more than one or two sets of silver jewelry earrings you want cleaned, but, on the whole, this is probably one of the most expedient ways to keep things looking great.
With that said, is there a specific timeframe in which you should clean your jewelry? Not in my experience. Generally, clean it if you find it is not as shiny as it used to be. And of course, if you wear it a lot, then you might want to clean it more than once every few months, like some do.
Ultimately, the key to cleaning silver jewelry earrings is a healthy dose of common sense: don’t use harsh household chemicals, ask if you’re not sure what to get, or simply get them professionally cleaned.
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