cleaning a gold necklace

wayne

hi my wife has just found a gold necklace i found her umpteen years ago and has decided to wear it in our hols.she,s asked me to take it to be cleaned as it,s a bit tarnished but surely theres a way to make it sparkle with out paying out to a jeweller?does anyone know of something that,ll clean it?

comping_cat

You can clean gold jewellery in a bowl of soapy water. Use a soft toothbrush to get inside the links and then drip dry on a towel, and buff with a chamois leather!

Pink.

If it isn't tarnished try soaking it in warm water and with washing up liquid and then giving it a gentle brush with an old toothbrush ..... If you do this once a week it seems to act as a preventitive measure and stops jewellery getting really dirty or tarnished.

If it is tarnished, soda crystals can remove tarnish from metals. Put some tin foil in a dish, add soda crystals and pour on boiling water. Immerse the necklace and leave it for a few minutes, rinse, dry and polish.

Pink

ariba10

If it is tarnished it is not gold.

Mishy

have you tried washing it in coke that tends to clean gold better than any cleaner I know.

Mishy

Mrs_Bear

Goddards do a Gold and Platinum Jewelry Cleaner, with a lid that acts as the bowl and a little brush for £2.84. I bought my pot in Tesco (in the household cleaning section) Just cleaned up a gold bracelet that was really dirty and it's absolutely gleaming. Works wonderfully on rings (my cousin swears by gin, but I'd rather drink it than clean with it!)

ageandjo

See if you can find something called razzle dazzle thats fab for gold failing that pop in a glass of coke (real coke not diet)

halloweenqueen_2

Well I hate to say stardrops! but I just cleaned up a gold ring with it wonderfully, put it on more or less neat and then washed it off, moving the ring about a bit and a cotton bud for fiddly bits. HTH.

gooismeid

If my rings need a bit of a spruce-up, I use toothpaste and an old toothbrush. Just scrub it around a bit and rinse it all off with warm water then polish with a soft piece of cloth (or your towelling dressing gown, if you're me). Cheap, quick to do and effective.

patgc

I clean all mine by putting a folded up piece of tin foil in the bottom of a bowl. Put about a large tspn of Bi-carb on the top. Put the necklace on it and then pour some boiling water over the lot, enough to cover item. It fizz's up then leave for a while, take out and wash in warm water. Everything comes up lovely, especially silver items.
Am told the bicarb reacts with the tin foil.

jewlls

Hi,
sorry if posted in wrong place please move if need be.
What it is, My daughter has a 9ct gold necklace and whenever she wears it, it leaves a green,black mark round her neck and on her clothes. I have took it to jewllers shop to be cleaned but are still having the same problem. She has to clean it with a soft cloth before she wears it, and there is still lots green,black colour coming off it. Is there anything to prevent this hapening. I forgot to say that we have used the home jewellry cleaner, and soaking it in washing up liquid in a cup

Jewlls