Taking care of silver jewelry is especially important due to the fact that silver is a soft metal and it can get damaged easily. Make sure you are not rubbing it against other metals while wearing, keep it safe when you are not wearing it and be gentle with it when putting it aside. Silver must be stored separately from other jewels because it will get scratched and the sparkly layer that seemed so fine will fade.
Other reasons for silver aging are more natural than they might seem. Silver is subjected to oxidization and moisture present in the atmosphere. Apart from this, paper and wood are also harmful as they emit acid which causes marring. Silver cleaning must always be performed with soft dry not synthetic tissue.
Now let us have a closer look at how to clean silver jewelry. It might seem a bit more complicated but nothing really special. Take a plastic container or a cup, just make sure the vessel is not made of steel, and put some aluminum foil on bottom of it, then place your jewelry on it, put some cleaning agent in the cup and wait a few minutes. Now you can take your silver and thoroughly wash it. All you’ve got left to do is dry it with a good soft towel to make it shine. If you just keep it till it dries itself, the shining will not be that bright, so use any type of cloth you appear to have at hand.
To perform qualitative cleaning you might make use of silver cleaner which is efficient in removing tarnish, grease, dirt, dust. It can be sold either as a liquid or as a paste. Any would do. Just make sure that you use soft cloth to clean your jewelry from silver cleaner afterwards. However they are not suggested to be used if your silver jewelry contains gems. You might cause severe damage to your ring, bracelet or necklace as the chemicals containing in silver cleaner will ruin the part with the gemstone. Be careful with it.
That’s how we clean silver, polish it and make our jewels sparkly again.