How to remove the yellow and black substances off the silver jewelry?

How to keep sterling silver jewelry in good shape? 

If we do not keep the silver jewelry carefully after use, it will easily turn yellow and black over time. Learning how to maintain silver jewelry can help restore your favorite jewelry to its glossiness instantly and make it stay bright and silvery white!

Day-to-day maintenance
Seldom worn silver ornaments should be kept separately in individual sealed plastic bags or airtight containers, such as flannel bag or jewelry box. Keeping it away from contact with air can slow down the speed of turning black.

Silver jewelry should not be worn together with other metal ornaments, otherwise it can be deformed due to collision.

Never put silver jewelry together with gold, otherwise the silver will turn yellow due to assimilation.

Keep silver dry. Do not wear any silver in bath, swimming and hot spring.

Silver jewelry should be kept away from ultraviolet ray, sulfur, smoke and warm air to avoid the formation of black spots of silver sulfide.

Avoid contacting silver jewelry with chemical bath gel, soap, chemical reagents and perfume.

Do not use bleach, strong acidic decontamination powder and chemical agent to rinse silver jewelry.

Human grease can help keep sterling silver jewelry away from oxidization and stay glossy and shiny, It can even become increasingly glossy if you wear it everyday. However, sulfur and chloride in human sweat are harmful to silver. It is better for us to remove the silver ornament and store it in dry place before shower and sleep. Avoid contacting it with solid object to prevent surface abrasion.

Every time after wearing the silver jewelry, wipe off the water and dirt gently from the surface with cotton cloth or tissue paper and then keep it in a sealed bag or jewelry box to avoid weakening luminosity on the surface due to oxidation.

Clean the silver jewelry regularly in warm water with ordinary detergent, and then rinse it with water.

Do not wipe the exquisite three-dimensional silver ornament deliberately to make it bright in order not to affect the three-dimensional effect.

Do not clean the sulfurized silver jewelry with silver cleaning solution.

Do not wash the silver polishing cloth with water as the cloth contains special solution ingredients.

Ways to remove the yellow substance off the silver jewelry

After wearing rhodium silver jewelry for a long period of time, the jewelry may be torn and the silver underneath the surface will turn yellow due to exposure to air.  If this happens, you may try the following:

Gently rub the silver jewelry with soft cloth and toothpaste, then rinse with water and wipe with soft cotton cloth. Do this especially for the silver jewelry with electroplating, as the plating layer is usually very thin. Wiping the ornament with rough cloth and chemical substances will damage the surface and affect its glossiness.

Clean silver jewelry in water with baking soda and then wipe it dry. This is a natural and economic way to restore its luster.

Silver jewelry usually contains a small amount of copper, so patina may appear on the surface of silver jewelry that is not often worn. In this case, wiping it gently with silver cloth can make it appear silvery bright again.

Soak the silverware or silver jewelry in silver cleaning solution before rinsing with water and wiping with cotton cloth. Then keep it in dry place.

Silver polish cream and silver cleaning solution should be avoided as much as possible as they are corrosive and the silver jewelry will be damaged with long-term use.

Gently wipe the slightly yellowish silver jewelry with silver polish cloth. This helps brightening and whitening the silverware.

Ways to remove black substances off the silver jewelry (the blackened silverware due to silver sulfide)

First, clean the jewelry slits with a small soft bristle brush, and wipe off the black oxide on the surface of the silver jewelry using a sponge, cotton pad or tissue paper with a few drops of silver polish agent. Then, polish it with a clean silver cloth, soft towel or cotton pad until the original luster of ornaments is restored. After this, keep the day-to-day maintenance and prevent the silver jewelry from turning black again. It is difficult to restore the brightness and whiteness of the silver jewelry after a few times of blackening.

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