Seven Details to Make Your Jewelry Remain Shiny

1. Clean jewelry with toothpaste? Wong!There is a statement: brushing jewelry with toothpaste can make the jewelry appear as bright as new. It is true that jewelry should be cleaned, but toothpaste isn’t the ideal object in that there are fine articles with high hardness (almost the same as crystal) within the toothpaste, thus using toothpaste cleaning jewelry would damage the surface of gems that are with low hardness than crystal, such as the surface of pearl beads, gold and k gold; pearls should absolutely avoid toothpaste, the diluted neutral surfactants is the ideal washing solution.2. Do not stroke the item regularlyExcretion of sweat and grease on the surface of body happens all the time; hands are parts that are likely to touch the body, thus the grease on the surface can be easily contaminated on gems through hands with the consequence that the luster and brightness are decreased. Diamond is of the group that is lipophilic, whose surface is easily to be contaminated. While white jade belongs to collective structure, with regular stroking, the jade can be more moist and lovely.3. Tap water can do damage to the luster of pearlsSome people tends to clean and maintenance the pearl necklace after wearing it for several times, while many of us might not get the point that tap water would affect the quality of pearl jewelry once pearls are soaked in the water for a long time, for within the tape water there is fixed amounts of chlorine which would do damage on the luster of the surface of pearls, in fact mineral water is the best choose for washing pearls.4. Removing the jewelry timely is maintenanceThe right methods of wearing jewelry should depends on different people, things, places, times and objects, which might not come into reality for the busy people. At least when washing the hands, we should remove the jewelry in that there is alkaline substances of varying degree within the soap, which might do damage to those fragile gems with accumulating effects, what’s more, the saponaria within the soap is easily to be stuck in the slit of ring, thus affecting the luster and brightness of the gem.5. Be careful of using ultrasonic cleaning machineUltrasonic cleaning machine has good cleaning effect on k-gold jewelry and k-gold gems; especially it can clean up the grease and dust on the slit of the stones that the brush can not reach, while the machine is not suitable for all gems which special structure, such as emerald, pearls etc. Thus the way of using ultrasonic cleaning machine should be avoided absolutely to protect the inner structure. In addition, the machine is of good effect on cleaning, but the regular using of it may lead to the loosing or fall off of small diamond.6. Taking notes of substances of acid and alkalineSome substance among our daily life contains different degree of acid and alkaline, while these chemical substances might do badness to gems or other organic gems, especially pearls. Cosmetic should be avoided when used in daily life.Wearing jewelry should follow the steps of being dressed and being sprayed perfumes to avoid the direct touching of high density or perfume on the surface.7. Pay attention to order of wearing jewelryWhen wearing jewelry or rings with diamond inlaid in claw-like way, it should be avoided to not hook into clothing and handbags. Generally speaking, the order of wearing jewelry should follow the dressing of clothes.There are many ways to inlay jewelry, the most insurant way to not hook to clothes is packaging mosaic, but the weakness of this method is to covering the “waist” part which let light difficult to get through. What’s more, the visual effects is less perfect than the claw-like mosaic in that the k gold part contains a lot, thus the prevalent methods on the market is claw-like mosaic method, and the wearing order of jewelry and clothes should be taken into consideration.