Care
With proper care, your fine quality silver will last a lifetime. To minimize scratches and other damage, store your silver jewelry either in a cloth pouch or in a separate compartment in your jewelry box. Avoid exposing your silver to household chemicals when cleaning with bleach or ammonia, or when swimming in chlorinated water, as these chemicals can damage silver.
Clean Your Silver Regularly
Care should also be taken to prevent silver tarnish build-up, a dulling that naturally occurs when silver reacts with sulfur or hydrogen sulfide in the ambient air. To clean your silver, use polishes formulated specifically to remove tarnish. You can find fine silver polishes, solutions, or cloths appropriate to remove tarnish at most hardware stores or specialty craft stores. Tarnish is most easily removed when it first becomes visible.
Although wearing your silver jewelry often is the best way to prevent tarnish from building up, regular cleanings of all your silver items will prevent tarnish and keep your silver bright and sparkling.
Look for the fineness mark and the maker's mark on the underside of the silver item you are considering to ensure the quality.
“Your jewellery deserves your love and care.”
Little tips for caring for your new jewellery.
“Put on your jewellery after spraying perfumes.
Perfumes are hard on jewellery
and will immidiately tarnish silver.”
“Don’t wear your jewellery when doing activities
that could be hard on it, such as gardening or sports.
Silver is a very soft metal and it can be scratched easily.”
“Put your jewellery into a plastic bag
before putting it in your jewellery box.
This prevents your jewellery to get tarnished in the air
as well as rubbing against each other and becoming damaged.”
“ Keep it bright and shiny”
“Dipping your jewellery in lime or lemon juice
for five minutes and brushing with a soft brush
then rinsing with light soap and a final rinse in water
will bring back the brightness to your jewellery.”
“Polish it with a silver polishing cloth
will bring back the shine of your jewellery.”
“And most importantly,
enjoy and love your jewellery
and let it bring a smile to your face
every time you put it on.”
