Whether it’s fine or everyday jewellery, they are the perfect finishing touch for any look. However, with normal wear, proper jewellery care is required to maintain its beauty and shine. The trick to keeping your jewellery looking its best is knowing how to take care of each type of jewellery depending on the material.
Here are some quick tips and tricks to take care of your jewellery to prevent tarnishing, scratches and dullness:
Clean Your Jewellery With Care
Purchasing a jewellery polishing cloth is highly recommended to clean silver and gold jewellery. A polishing cloth comes in handy in order to restore your jewellery to its original shine. House of Jewellery Toronto, does not recommend dipping your jewellery in a cleaning solution as this can remove the barrier that is protecting your jewellery’s natural protective cover.
An insider’s secret is to rub your silver and gold jewellery with toothpaste and a toothbrush while rinsing with warm water. Surprisingly you will be amazed with the results.
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Plated Jewellery
Some of our wholesale jewellery supplies at House of Jewellery are rhodium, gold or rose gold plated. These specific jewellery pieces go through a special manufacturing process to make the silver look like another color. It is important that your customers handle these pieces with care similar to fine jewellery. Below are some good tips on how to better care for these pieces which you can mention to your customers while they are purchasing their jewellery pieces.
- Remove jewellery when participating in physical activities to prevent damage or exposure to chemicals or fluids.
- Put jewellery on after cosmetic application – Save the best for last by putting on your jewellery after applying makeup. Cosmetics, hairspray, perfumes and lotion often contain chemicals that can damage jewellery. Putting jewellery on after applying cosmetics will limit these harmful materials from causing potential damage to precious metals.
- Avoid direct contact with water and do not immerse in water. Chlorinated water may cause color changes and even structural damage due to chlorine’s reaction with metals.
Jewellery Storage
Proper jewellery storage is your friend! How you store your jewellery can really affect its longevity but with the right storage, your jewellery can be safe. Jewellery boxes that are lined are perfect for storing sterling silver pieces. Being able to find a jewellery box that is padded and felt-lined for different types of jewellery will help organize, keep protected and clean. Listed below are suggestions that we have assembled to keep your jewellery organized and orderly:
- Keep your jewellery secure: Store your collection in a jewellery box/fabric to prevent pieces from moving around and getting tangled.
- When traveling with jewellery, use a case: It’s wise to use a travel case to protect your favourite pieces.
Jewellery Repairs
Nothing lasts forever, but you may extend the life of jewellery by performing repairs when necessary. Jewellery repairs are important steps to restoring and preserving jewellery for many years to come.
Prevent Your Jewellery From Tarnishing
Tarnish occurs on silver jewellery the more you wear it due to the nature of the metal, but mainly it is because of being exposed to atmospheric sulphur found in the air. Furthermore, if the end user of the product has high acidity in their skin, this will speed up the tarnishing process for the jewellery item. To ensure the longer life of your precious silver jewellery, try to keep it in a cool dry place that is not exposed to sunlight when not worn. House of Jewellery offers a wide variety of Anti-Tarnish jewellery which you can check out here. Click here to read our full Jewellery Care guide!
