Take care of your jewelry and it will shine for years. While every piece of jewelry looks beautiful, they can end up looking faded and may lose their shine if not cared for well. If you want your jewellry to look as good as new, then you need to take good care of it. Follow these standard steps to care for your jewellry. If you have never had nice jewelry before, caring for the nicer pieces you might acquire as you get older, like engagement rings, fancier necklaces or bracelets, or silver pieces you may inherit from family members, can be kind of a mystery.
Below Are 5 Ways To Care For Your Jewelry:
The Simpler (Jewelry) Is Best
Though you might think that you need fancy or expensive solvents and cleaners in order to clean your jewellry, that might not be the case. In fact, you might be better off not using those sorts of things and going with warm soapy water and a soft-bristled toothbrush instead. The issue with with that blue solvent that a lot of jewellry places will give you when you buy a diamond ring or something is that it’s heavily alcohol-based, so while it cuts out grease, if you’re unintentionally putting something in there like, say an emerald, emerald are 99.9% of the time fracture-filled, even antique stones, with an oil-based solution or newer emeralds, because that oil eventually leaks out in all cases, are filled with a polymer, which also can become depending on how you clean a thing.
Don’t Sleep On Jewelry
Even though you may have slept in jewellry before without any issues sleeping in your nice pieces is a definite no-no. Sleeping in jewellry can harm the jewelry or you. Not only can you break a chain or bend a prong causing you to lose a stone, but earrings have even been known to end up in a person’s ear. It’s generally safer for you and your jewelry if you spend the night apart. You can always put it on in the morning.
Store Your Jewelry Separately
Storing your jewelry is important too because it can either help or harm your pieces, depending on how you do it. Always store your jewellry in a jewellry case or box and keep each piece separated from one another. Harder stones can scratch softer ones, so do the needful.
Always Put On Your Jewelry Last And Take It Off First
A simple guideline to help you take care of your jewellry is to put it on last, to finish your overall look, and take it off first when you’re changing your clothes or before you go to bed. Your jewelry should always be the last thing you put on and the first thing you take off.
Avoid the Sun
It’s best not to keep your jewellry in a place that the sun can get to it because sunlight can have an effect on some kind of pieces. The colours of some gems can be altered if it’s constantly left out in the sun. Keep your jewelry away from heating vents and other heating sources.
