cleaning silver jewellery

geri1965_2

booter wrote: »

To clean silver, I line a heat proof dish with aluminium foil, then put in enough very hot water (close to boiling) to make sure the item will be completely immersed. Then add a tablespoon full of bicarb of soda, and swoosh about (I think swoosh is a technical term ) then add the silver item. Leave it for a couple of hours and the black should all come off. (If it doesn't, repeat!) Rinse it well under the tap and buff it up with a little bit of olive oil on a cloth. However, I don't know how the fingerprint charms are made, so I don't know what effect this method of cleaning would have on them.

I did this with my Trollbeads chain and it took all the finish off! It was very shiny afterwards though.

leveller2911

carlamarie wrote: »

funnily enough my mum used to clean her gold with toothpaste but when i asked her she said it wouldnt do anything for silver!
thank you

Lol, I've just cleaned some silver with tooth paste and then found your thread..... uncanny....

It does work but don't ask me which brand to use. I just use white tooth paste but my 7yr old daughter told me I had made a mistake and should have used the red/white and blue toothpaste..

:rotfl:

carlamarie_2

lol! that made me chuckle!

Any

booter wrote: »

To clean silver, I line a heat proof dish with aluminium foil, then put in enough very hot water (close to boiling) to make sure the item will be completely immersed. Then add a tablespoon full of bicarb of soda, and swoosh about (I think swoosh is a technical term ) then add the silver item. Leave it for a couple of hours and the black should all come off. (If it doesn't, repeat!) Rinse it well under the tap and buff it up with a little bit of olive oil on a cloth. However, I don't know how the fingerprint charms are made, so I don't know what effect this method of cleaning would have on them.

I back up this. I once saw it on Youtube and tried it and I am converted!! It's amazing how clean everything comes out. Like new. My OH laughed at me at first, now he asks "where is the soda box? I need to clean the silver..."

lolly5648

I have been given some 1930s candlesticks and some silver filigree dishes all hall marked. They are very tarnished and I am not sure how to clean them safely.

Any suggestions?

BitterAndTwisted

Scrumple up some aluminium foil, put in a pan of simmering water and then add your silver items.

honeythewitch

You need a disposable tinfoil roasting tray (or a container lined with tinfoil)
put about a quarter of a bag of soda crystals in and fill with hot water.
Put the silver items in so that they are completely covered, and the tarnish will come off very quickly. Make sure you rinse them very well.

lolly5648

Thanks for the answers. I will try both methods, a roasting tray for the large candlesticks and a saucepan for the small things.

I must say I am a bit scared to put them in hot water.

honeythewitch

lolly5648 wrote: »

Thanks for the answers. I will try both methods, a roasting tray for the large candlesticks and a saucepan for the small things.

I must say I am a bit scared to put them in hot water.

It works with cold too, but takes longer. I use hot to make sure it all dissolves.
This method below uses salt too, but I never have.
http://greenliving.nationalgeographic.com/natural-way-clean-silver-3121.html

ERICS_MUM

water won't affect them but don't use abrasive stuff as that would damage the surface.