Gold are long known as a precious metal in human civilization. Even for now, the value is still high. The price, beauty, and shine of the gold made it a nice decorative jewelry. But, after day by day exposure to the environment, our gold jewelry began to blur. What we need to avoid that is a simple step to clean our gold jewelry collection. With a simple care, our gold jewelry will shine brightly as its real color, thus provides you with an optimum appearance and performance.

Although gold is tarnish-resistant, but gold shine could reduced by many things. Gold jewelry that we often used daily might exposed to many kinds of chemical substances, contained in our lotion, powders, soap, oil, or else. The chemical substances could left some residue at your gold jewelry’s surface. That makes your gold jewelry performances reduced. Cleaning your gold jewelry will wash off those residues on your gold jewelry and restore the shine of the jewelry. This might give you a long lasting beautiful gold shine for daily use.

There are many kinds of commercial products available to clean your gold jewelry. But, with a simple care, you might not need to buy it, as long as you take care of your gold jewelry regularly. Water and a little mild detergent is good enough to clean the gold jewelry. Using a soft brush or a special toothbrush will help you clean the design holes and the inner edge of the gold jewelry. You could soak the gold jewelry in the mixed solution of an ammonia and fresh water with a 1:6 portion, if your gold jewelry has been kept for a long time. But remember; soak it gently about 60 second. Another things you have to considered is that Pave set (glued in stones) jewelry should never be immersed in water while cleaning gold jewelry.

The next step is to dry your gold jewelry with a polishing cloth. The reason is simple; you don’t want the dirt that has been swept away in the water keeps coming back to your gold jewelry right? It is very important to dry the jewelry thoroughly after cleaning before wearing or storing. Avoid such chemicals like chlorine bleach in contact with your gold jewelry while cleaning, drying or daily use. It will harm your gold jewelry. Trust me, you don’t want to make your precious gold jewelry to be discolor, right?

Right now, you have your gold jewelry spark and shine like a brand new jewelry. The next step is a storage care. If you don’t use it often, it is essential to storage it with gently. Store your gold jewelry in a nice soft clutch pouches. Keep the precious jewelry, like your gold jewelry stored by individuals. Keeping them together could result in a scratch. If you have a storage box, make sure the box have some kind of compartments or divider. What kinds of boxes you need is depend on your personal opinion. But keep in mind that the gold jewelry or another precious jewelry is stored with safe and gently. Any scratch would decrease its performance and the price too ?.