How To Care For Your Jewellery
Your jewellery is precious, and proper care will ensure a lifetime of brilliance and sparkle. See our tips below to learn how to care for fine Jewellery.
- Outhouse Jewellery is special and all hand-crafted in our workshops.
- Your Jewellery should be stored in a dry place away from humidity, moisture and extreme temperatures.
- Rings and bracelets should be worn sparingly to avoid damage through impact.
- Don´t forget to remove your rings when washing up or showering, as soap particles may become lodged in stone settings and crevices. Soaps can also leave a film over metal and stones, creating a dull appearance.
- Store your Jewellery in its own box or pouch to prevent scratching, chipping and entanglement.
- Gentle rubbing with a silver cleaning cloth will restore the original brilliance of the surface.
- Do not use liquid cleaners for carved silver Jewellery as the liquid dries into the engraving.
- If you wear your gold plated silver Jewellery for significant periods of time, the plating will eventually wear down. To restore its appearance, you can have it re-plated.
- Make sure your Jewellery is not in regular contact with hard surfaces, which will scratch or wear down the plating or enamelling.
- Never use detergent, soap, toothpaste etc to clean your gold plated Jewellery.
- When dressing, jewellery should always be put on last as make up, cosmetics and perfumes can cause damage to delicate items.
- All stone Jewellery requires extra care and consideration during wearing to protect the setting as well as to safeguard the diamond or gemstone it holds.
About Sterling Silver
- Sterling silver is a metal containing at least 92.5% silver. This is the legal standard of purity set and used for most silver jewelry throughout the world.
- It Indicates that the metal used is of a specific quality. Pure silver is never used, as it is too soft to be practical.
- Reasons of Silver Jewellery being tarnished
- Normally Sterling Silver Jewellery is made up of 92.5% of Silver and balance of other metals . Other metals usually be copper which come across the air pollution and become tarnished which fade its polish.
- One should take care that their silver Jewellery does not come across any perfumes, hair spray, body lotion, Body Spray, Cosmetics this make silver Tarnishes so it may turn black.
- The best solution to all this problem is to Keep your silver Jewelry the way it is deliver to you.
Additional Care
- Silver has the property of being Black.
- After taking all the above-mentioned care you can.
- Take the help of professional Jewellery Cleaner.
- Do not bath, Swim with silver jewellery this will tarnish your jewelry easily Dry your jewellery if anything such accurs.