Cleaning silver at home with foil and soda

From time immemorial, jewelry was intended to evoke emotions favorable to the person being decorated in others. Indeed, you must agree that a person is pleased to look at clean, shiny jewelry. Therefore, it is necessary to properly store, sometimes clean to maintain a beautiful appearance of the decoration. Silver is one of the favorite materials for making jewelry, because it looks beautiful and is inexpensive. But since this metal has a very characteristic, not at all pleasant, feature that darkens over time, in practice a lot of methods for cleaning it have been tested. Cleaning silver at home with foil and soda is one of the most effective, simple, and therefore popular. About him and other options will be discussed in this article.

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Why do jewelry spoil?

From time to time, silver becomes dull, one of the possible reasons is an increased level of humidity. Also, contact with human skin affects the metal:

• Moisture;
• Cosmetics with sulfur;
• Features of a person's sweat.

In order to know how to clean silver at home, we must make out the types of this metal:

• sterling;
• monetary;
• nielloed;
• matte;
• filigree.

Important! There is no need to clean filigree, blackened types of metal!

It is necessary to take into account the finding of additional elements. It should be careful if inlays include:

• corals
• amber;
• pearls.

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Silver Cleaning Methods

The following describes how to clean table silver and utensils. Each proposed method is simple and does not require special efforts from you. The effect is usually noticeable literally right away.

Soak:

1. The first and one of the main actions is to wash the metal in a thick solution from a detergent.
2. For the best effect, bring the solution to 50 ° C, soak appliances or decorations for 30 minutes.
3. Following this, we wash everything soaked with a sponge.

Cleaning silver at home with foil and soda:

1. Pour water into a half-liter container, put two tablespoons of soda, and heat.
2. When the water container begins to boil, put a small piece of food foil in it.
3. Next, put our jewelry, cutlery or cleaning items in a container.
4. Keep for a short time - 5-7 minutes.

Solution from salt, soda, detergent

We need aluminum cookware:

1. We collect water in it, add detergent (liquid).
2. Next, add salt, soda.
3. For 30 minutes, simmer our jewels.

Tooth powder, ammonia, soda:

1. All ingredients are mixed.
2. The mixture is applied to silver with a soft brush and then washed off with water.
3. In conclusion, it is necessary to dry the products well and polish them.

Solution for products with stones and other elements:

1. We take: water, shavings of laundry soap, ammonia.
2. Bring the solution of these substances to a boil.
3. After it cools, apply to any silver product with a toothbrush.

Important! Hard-to-reach spots can be cleaned with ear sticks.

Another solution for simple products without stones:

1. We heat citric acid or ammonia to enhance the effect. You can also grate potatoes and then add water.
2. We lower the products into the selected product for a couple of minutes.
3. After we take the wool and three to a radiant shine.

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Tips that come in handy when cleaning silver:

• Clean silver utensils and cutlery separately from other types of household utensils to prevent scratches and damage to coatings.
• When cleaning and washing silver, do not use rubber gloves, because they can cause microcracks.
• Products with French or oxidized metal should preferably be given to professionals.
• You should not “go too far” with silver cleaning, as you can tear off a decorative coating, for example, taking it for a plaque.

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How to store silver?

It is desirable to store silver separately from other metals - in caskets or bags made of velvet. If they are not there, then you can use plastic bags, the main thing is that they do not scratch each other!

The following materials cannot be used for storage:

• Paper packaging;
• Cardboard;
• Rayon silk.

Important! Such packages have sulfur in their content, which provokes the darkening of silver.

Also in the storage place should not be wet places, direct sunlight and high temperature.

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As we can see, cleaning silver at home quickly and effectively turned out to be very simple and cheap financially. Use these tips and always look attractive in your silver jewelry!