cleaning tips for jewelry

We’ve all been there: we open up the jewelry box, pull out an old favorite, only to find the once shiny silver is now dull and tarnished.  You can clean your sterling silver, but wouldn’t it be nice to store your jewelry and not have to clean it when you pull it out to wear? In fact, preventing tarnish is much easier than cleaning tarnish, and keeping your sterling clean and tarnish-free will help your silver jewelry last longer. We’ve got a few great tips for keeping your sterling silver jewelry clean and tarnish-free. Find out how to ...

So you’re stuck indoors for a while. Self-isolating may have been fun the first few days, but boredom is easy to discover as projects run out. Lucky for you, Day’s has put together a comprehensive guide of how to clean your jewelry at home, so your valuables can be shining at their brightest and make you feel special. Sterling Silver ...

Let’s face it- sterling silver, although beautiful and the preferred jewelry metal for some people, doesn’t always look nice. When tarnish sets in, sterling silver jewelry can turn ugly real fast, and if you don’t wear your sterling jewelry often, there’s unfortunately no way to avoid tarnish. But have no fear! If you’ve just pulled a piece of sterling jewelry out of your jewelry box, but it’s turned gray or black with tarnish, Day’s is here to help you get rid of that tarnish and get back to being your fabulous self, silver accessories included.  Baking Soda is Your FriendBaking soda is abrasive, but gentle enough to clean sterling without damaging the metal, perfect for buffing stubborn tarnish stains away. You can use baking soda toothpaste and an old toothbrush to carefully scrub away the tarnish, or you can get a little more complicated with a dip.  ...

Like a new car, new jewelry eventually requires maintenance. This isn't a suggestion, it's a fact. When you love your jewelry, you wear it (as you should). When you wear it, you damage it. This fact is not so much about quality craftsmanship as it is about wear and tear. When you drive thousands of miles on your car, it is not the car's fault the tires need to be replaced. The same concept can (and should) be applied to jewelry. Under elements of normal wear and tear your metals should last you the following number of years without requiring prong or shank maintenance. Yellow Gold - 5 Years White Gold - 8 Years Platinum - 20 Years This is under normal wear and tear. Below, I have created a list of activities that unintentionally kills jewelry. If you want to maximize the life of your jewelry and delay repair work as long as possible, please be (unofficially) advised to remove ...

We interviewed the goldsmiths at Day's Jewelers and asked what the most common mistakes an owner can make when it comes to their jewelry. #1. Sleeping in your jewelry Bed sheets are sold by thread count. The more threads, the softer the sheet- to us! Our jewelry, on the other hand finds any sheet a hazardous encounter. Imagine yourself having to cross through a grouping of thorny rose bushes. Most of us would rather not cross at all. Bed sheets again having all of the woven threads, can act like sandpaper on the tips and prongs on rings pendants, and bracelets. This leads to premature wear, requiring costly maintenance more often. The tips of the prongs have a tendency to become snagged and lifted when caught on threads. The more worn the tip of the prong, the more likely it will become caught, and possibly broken off. This can lead to loss of the stone it was holding. If ...

Properly cleaning jewelry isn't as easy as doing a quick Google search. There are many wives tales and myths explaining how to clean your jewelry. Some of these have some truth behind them, but some will actually do harm to your jewelry. Making sure you know how to properly care for and clean your jewelry will help extend the life of your pieces and help them to look their best while you wear them.There are simple ways to clean and care for your jewelry that are easy, fast, and most important - safe. Myth #1: Toothpaste  A common myth is that toothpaste is a good way to clean your jewelry. This is actually false. Toothpaste can damage your diamonds, gemstones and gold. ...

Many of us like to help in keeping the Earth a clean place to live. We see it on Pinterest all the time; ways to make detergents and homemade cleaners and we pin them thinking it's a great idea. This stops us from having to buy the awful chemical items and we help lessen then amount of bottles in landfills. One of the common properties of sterling silver is that tarnishes. Tarnish on sterling silver jewelry is most often removed by with a specially treated polish cloth or by dipping jewelry into a liquid chemical created especially for this purpose. Here is a way to remove tarnish on your sterling silver jewelry with harmless substances found in just about every kitchen.   1. Put a heatproof ...