Care Your Valuables: JEWELLERY

Everyone wear different types of ornaments. They are made from precious and valuable materials like Gold, Silver, Platinum, Diamonds and Gemstones etc. Jewellery is a status symbol of today’s world. Owning jewellery is notonly important, but care of jewellery is also is a necessary part of owning it. By using such techniques you can make your jewellery brighten and durable forever. Tips given below will help you to clean and care for your valuable jewelry so that their beauty last long.

To care your jewellery remembers this…

• Don't wear your jewellery 24 hours a day; take it off when you get home or at least at night.
• Keep jewellery carefully stored and separated as different elements can damage each other.
• When you are not wearing chains keep them fastened so they don't get tinged.
• When you are doing jobs around the house, gardening, DIY etc. remove your jewellery, when cleaning the kitchen floor or working in the hut.
• Do not store jewellery next to heating vent, window sill, or in the car.
• Store jewellery away from sunlight. The sun may fade some gemstones.
• Always store bead necklaces strung on silk (such as lapis, pearls, etc.) flat because silk stretches over time.
• Jewellery can also damage by shopping trolleys, dog leads, door handles, handbrakes and while washing.
• Certain chemicals can harm your precious items; we use some of them so often we don't think of them as chemicals. Hairspray, perfume, nail-polish remover, even perspiration can all affects jewellery. If you are going to use hairspray or other cosmetics, use them first and give them a chance to dry before putting on your jewellery.
• Chlorine is particularly damaging, so if you are going swimming leave your jewellery locked in the safe at home.
• Lay the jewellery in the locker without folding; it can weaken at the joints. Avoid stacking; if you must, layer with cotton used to fill pillows; it works better than "doctor's" cotton.
• If in any doubt about the care, repair or valuation of your jewellery ask the advice of a professional.

How to Clean Jewellery?

• Get your jewellery cleaned and checked at least annually by genuine person or vendor.
• Gently rub gold and silver jewellery with a soft, clean cloth to maximize the shine.
• Jewellery set with gems can be brought to life by careful cleaning with a soft brush and soapy water, or with a proprietary jewellery cleaning solution.
• Don't use any form of chemical or an ultrasonic cleaner by yourself, it should be harmful for your jewellery.
• If your jewellery in not Kundan or Jadau, Pearl or Thread jewellery then you have to use the mixture of normal detergent powder, turmeric powder in water and boil it with only gold jewellery, for diamond jewellery don’t use turmeric.
• Do not try to get threaded pearl or bead jewellery wet and only wet antique jewellery after specialist advice, otherwise you could damage it.
• Don’t use abrasive cleaners on jewellery.
• You can use silver ‘dip’ type cleaners on most silver jewellery - but rinse and dry them thoroughly.
• Don’t use silver ‘dip’ type cleaning solutions on gold jewellery, only special jewellery cleaners can be used.

Allergic Reaction of Jewellery:

Some of people have complained for an allergic reaction when wearing jewellery. Often heard was the phrase - I am allergic to gold. This is not the case, Gold is a noble metal, and it is not possible to be any types of allergic to it. The allergy stems from a reaction to other alloys used. Pure gold is too soft to make jewellery and there for its alloying with other metals to make hard e.g. in 18 karat jewellery – 6 karat is other metal (total 24 which would be pure). Most often the allergy comes from nickel, which was used for alloying purpose. The above explanation also covers allergic reaction to sterling silver.

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