cleaning silver jewellery

karmacookie

yeah, i agree, i've used toothpaste to clean tarnished silver jewlery, it comes up a treat!

frasersmum123

Does anyone have an easy way of cleaning silver - I am selling a bracelet on ebay which looks a bit dull and I want to add some sparkle to it

Penelope_Penguin

frasersmum123 wrote: »

Does anyone have an easy way of cleaning silver - I am selling a bracelet on ebay which looks a bit dull and I want to add some sparkle to it

I keep a silver cloth for cleaning my jewellery

There are other suggestions in this older thread; I'll merge this later.

BlushingRose

Hiya,
not sure if this is the right board for my question, please redirect me if not:)

I have some bits of silver jewellery but some of it is tarnished (probably my own fault for leaving it out in the air?). They're necklaces and pendants. I was wondering what might be the best method to clean them up, and the best method of storage afterwards?
I have now moved everything into a drawer, in boxes...

kittycat204

i find silver tarnishes wherever i put it. to clean it just buy some silver dip. beware putting other things in it, but plain silver will come up lovely.
http://www.scjohnson.co.uk/nqcontent.cfm?a_id=6010
you can get it from supermarkets now i think

BlushingRose

Thanks.
I'd been wondering if there was something 'old school' (and cheap) that might sort it all out.

morganlefay

The Daily Telegraph letters page had a letter in it this morning which had this recipe: get a bowl big enough to put the silver in, line it with foil, make a very salty solution with boiling water and then put silver in bowl, pour solution over and rinse when clean (minutes only). I am not sure how good this would be for any stones etc you have in your jewellry, but have heard of this as a method before and it sounds a bit less vicious than silver dip which is very powerful. HTH !

morganlefay

There's a video here and apparently you need bicarb as well - have a look, it looks very easy and cheap !

http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-clean-silver-with-aluminum-foil

Bongedone

morganlefay wrote: »

There's a video here and apparently you need bicarb as well - have a look, it looks very easy and cheap !

http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-clean-silver-with-aluminum-foil

I did this with the wifes stuff. It fizzes and instantly everything comes off. No cloth or anything. The foil must work like a battery with the ring and attracts all the tarnish to the foil.

squeaky

Yep

Here ya go... cleaning silver jewellery

I'll add your thread to this one later.