Knowing how to care for your item is essential in maintaining your jewel's natural shine and luster. Check out these basic care techniques for more information.
Remove Jewelry During Certain Activities
When performing manual tasks, remove your jewelry to prevent physical damage or exposure to chemicals or cleaning fluids. Some tasks that should be avoided when wearing jewelry include kitchen work, gardening, cleaning the house and other common tasks.
Don't Wear Jewelry In The Shower, Pools or Spa
Soap, Shampoo as well as Chlorinated water can react negatively with the metals found in jewelry causing color changes and even structural damage. As a result it's a good idea to remove jewelry before performing these activities.
Keeping Your Jewelry Clean
You should always polish silver or gold with a jewelry polishing cloth or a microfibre cloth with a drop of warm water. This will remove any minor stains and fingerprints. There are also many commercial jewelry cleaning products, specially formulated to clean and polish silver or gold.