cleaning silver jewellery

Bitsy_Beans

Gigervamp wrote: »

Toothpaste on an old toothbrush will bring it up a treat.

Don't use gel toothpaste as I don't think that works as well as the cheapie basic white stuff.

Swirley

Oh wow, lots of responses!!! :T Thank you all so much, will be giving them a try later :beer: x

Mortgage_Reduction_Novice

Loanranger wrote: »

Using bicarb and silver foil will remove the patina and leave the silver looking whitish and very unattractive.
Buy some Silvo.

Buying Silvo... not very OS!

If you like the patina (darkened oxidised silver areas that build with age - but not part of any original coating on the jewellery) you can return it after cleaning with a source of sulphur. Hard boiled egg yolks. Place jewellery in a bag with mashed egg yolk and leave for a few minutes. Leave for longer if you want it darker.

pigpen

silvo might not be money saving but it last yonks so in the long run might be.. esp if used of other stuff

McKneff

Will all these remedies shine up a sixpenny piece. I have an old one which I want to give my daughter to wear in her shoe on her wedding day.

meritaten

I always use a cheap white toothpaste and a soft babies toothbrush to clean my jewellery - and the odd small silver item. comes up a treat! Yes McNeff, it works on silver coins too - my son is a metal detectorist and when all the dirt has been washed off he uses the toothpaste method too! The coins I mean - NOT him!

zippychick

ive merged this with an existing thread on cleaning silver jewelley
let us know what works

Zip

Artytarty

Oh dear, I have just bought Heggarty silver cleaning solution.
I dunked in a silver necklace on a chain and hte chain has lost all of its finnish, its now virutually white and there is a "chain" mark on the solid silver pendant bit , its like a black imprint of the chain. I am very upset!
I can replace the chain, maybe it wasnt solid silver,but what to do about the marks?

NaughtySpot

Does anyone have a successful OS way to clean sterling silver jewellery?

I have a few pieces that are quite tarnished, and rather than throw them I'd like to clean them.

Thanks :j

foxgloves

I've never tried it, but I'm sure I've read somewhere that you can use tomato ketchup. Can't recall what you were actually supposed to DO with the ketchup, but I suppose it'd be the vinegar doing the cleaning, in a more gentle way than using neat vinegar on your jewellery. I want to try this now......