How to get rid of jewelry tarnish? | Hints to keep jewelry from tarnishing and spread that silver charm

Tarnish of the jewelry is the most common threat to your silver or copper jewelries. It rarely happens to gold but if the gold is less than 18 carat then it too can get tarnished. Tarnish on jewelry is caused due to certain compositions present in air and this makes your jewelry dull in appearance and even it gets reduces in weight after some time. This happens if your jewelry is exposed to air and spoils the whole charisma of your expensive possessions.

How to get rid of tarnished jewelry?

There are some wonderful solutions that you can try to remove the tarnish like:

1. Prepare a mixture of hot water, salt and washing soda then pour it in bowl deep your jewelry in the bowl and also keep the aluminum wrapping foil piece in the bowl just a small one and remember keep the piece closer to your item and leave for some time then you will notice all the tarnish is gone from the jewelry and the aluminum is covered by the tarnish now throw it and here your jewelry free from tarnish.
2. Apply your normal tooth paste on the jewelry and rub it to form the foam now wash it with hot water and it will be clean and glowing.
3. Make a paste out of baking soda and water apply this on jewelry and keep for some time and then run hot water on this and then rinse with normal water this also clears the tarnish to much extent.
4. Dip your jewelry in vinegar of any kind and add a pinch of salt to it and let it be there until you notice that tarnish is gone than remove and without washing keep it as it is to dry in air.
5. Squeeze out juice from two lemons and keep your silver jewelry in this and let it be there for some time then remove and wash in water this is also a good option to remove tarnish.
6. If your jewelry is tarnished and you live in same place where you have bought it from then go to the shop and ask for costume jewelry cleaners the shops keep the solutions and if you have purchased it from same shop he will give you the cleaner without charging you.
7. Add one tablespoon of washing detergent in hot water and dip the gold jewelry in that solution and keep it overnight in morning you will see the residues at bottom of the container and your piece would be shining clean.
8. Keep your toothbrush in hot water for a while and rub the silver items with brush gently in most cases it removes the tarnish completely and don’t wear rubber gloves while washing as rubber will corrode silver.
9. There is an instrument called ultra sonic silver jewelry cleaner in market it is particularly used in jewelry shops it removes the tarnish from silver completely.
10. Apply your lipstick on four folds tissue paper and rub the jewelry with this paper and slowly the tarnish will come up on tissue paper and your jewelry will be clean and tarnish free.