Tips For Taking Care Of Your Jewelry
It is necessary to take care of your belongings and ensure your precious jewelry doesn’t lose the spark and glitz over a period of time.
Introduction To Basics
A piece of jewel is dear to the owner, there are emotions attached to the same. While selecting the ideal jewelry item for yourself, you must be aware of the precautions, care tips, and factors that indicate repair. It helps to minimize damage and get a damaged fix at the right moment. Gold is a durable metal and it doesn’t rust easily. But that is not in the case of Silver. The oxidization of Silver is as quick as rusting of iron.
The different factors that can harm your jewelry are:
Adulterated Gemstones:
Lab-created gemstones are the ones considered adulterated gemstones. Harmful effects on the same due to various factors can be easily noticed. The perfectly created lab-grown gemstones need extra care as they are not as aged as the natural one and one flaw can ruin their complete presence. In order to maintain their perfect shine and sparkle, keep them away from sunlight, harsh chemicals, while using sharp and pointed utensils.
Contact with Harmful Chemicals
While you use your regular perfume, body spray, hair spray, beaching agents, lotions, and any other product that has chemicals the effect can be noticed in your jewelry. In order to minimize the harmful effects on precious stones and jewelry items, removal of jewelry before you come in contact with such chemicals is advised. They can adverse the Gold and the colored gemstone over a period of time.
Exposure to Sunlight
Certain precious stones like pearl can lose their upper coat due to continuous exposure to the sun. It can be avoided by minimizing the time you spend under sunlight while wearing your precious jewelry. Alike the same opal gets darker in the sunlight and loses its natural characteristics. To avoid such situations, one should avoid wearing jewelry while they are out under the intense sun.
Harsh Cleaners
The use of ultrasonic cleaners created specifically for metals should not be used for natural gemstones. Not in any case should be used for ivory, pearls, coral, tanzanite, iolite, fire topaz ,and emeralds.
Suggestive Cleaning Methods
Experts suggest to clean the jewelry on regular intervals in order to avoid any kind of deposit of dirt or rusting of jewelry.
Certain Pro Tips to Have Hassle-Free Cleaning Session of Your Jewelry
• Choose soft brushes over the hard ones, it helps to avoid further scratches over the precious stones.
• Expensive products like high carat emeralds, diamonds, and other solid precious stones should be cleaned by an expert, do not try to clean them on your own.
• A combination of warm water with mild soap is the universal combination to clean jewelry irrespective of stone and metal type. Using soft clothing is recommended. In case you feel, the gemstone needs extra cleaning, use a soft bristle brush to ensure the deep cleaning of the precious gemstone. It will help you to remove the dirt and get a crystal clear stone.
Please Note- Use two bowls one having the combination of mild soap and warm water and another having clean warm water. After washing the gemstone with the combination of soap and water, you can place the piece of jewelry in the bowl of clean water. Avoid using a running tap as you might lose your jewelry in the sinkhole or hamper the same due to the excessive flow of water.
Tips for Proper Storage
Overlapping jewelry one over the other in form of clutter can become challenging for the person who is responsible for taking care of them. Well, the owner of the jewelry needs to be alert about the different ways to store various pieces of jewelry in separate boxes specially designed to keep them safe and in a sound position.
Few tips to handle your jewelry
• Never toss your precious stone jewelry items into the cupboard, it is not safe to just throw them up in the cupboard. Place them with care in their respective jewel boxes.
• Do not rub your fingers and hands against wood and steel or any other commodity while you are wearing your colored gemstone rings and bracelets. It can cause scratches. Remove them and place them in their box and proceed with your work.
• Leaving your jewels outside in a high humidity zone can adversely affect the quality of jewels. Precious stones like pearls and opals can lose their natural color if are left in the wet zone. cleaning, use a soft bristle brush to ensure the deep cleaning of the precious gemstone. It will help you to remove the dirt and get a crystal clear stone.
Do's
Certain practices that will help you to maintain the high quality of your jewelry are:
• You cannot carry your jewelry boxes while you travel but can surely have a jewelry pouch that is made of soft fabric, you can use the same to store your jewelry.
• Always wear your jewelry at the end, first complete your make-up, application of hair spray, perfume, etc and then start wearing your jewelry.
• After undressing your jewelry, clean the same with a clean soft cloth to remove any kind of dirt or oil.
Don't
• Please avoid using a hot bathtub or swimming pool while wearing your jewelry. It has a high chlorine value that can adversely affect the jewelry pieces.
• Avoid performing physical activities while wearing your jewelry You can remove and keep them at a safe location and proceed with your task.
Guidance to Increase Shelf Life of Your Jewelry
You can increase the life of your jewelry by keeping the following points in your mind:
• Consult experts for cleaning your jewelry as they will handle the jewelry with utmost care.
• Go for the jewelry which you can handle with ease.
• It is suggested to re-plate or polish your white gold jewelry after a period of 24 months.
• Ensure you do not expose your colored gemstones to direct sunlight. It can hamper their natural color.
• Take care of your precious jewelry and it will retain the classic look for a long period.
Red Flags Reflecting Repair
The time when you are expected to get your ring, bracelet, pendant, earring, or any piece of jewel repaired due to any mishap or accidental damage, should not be delayed. Timely repair is expected to minimize the cost of repair. Rosec Jewel offers 30 days of free repair and maintenance service to its valuable customers. For further help, please check out our “Warranty” policy.
