Facts and Tips That You Should Know About Jewellery Day-to-Day Care.
How to Care for Your Jewellery?
The materials and stones used in jewellery designs require specific care and we want to highlight them. Learn how to ensure your jewellery remains in prime condition.
Jewellery is a truly special accessory. Whether it’s a sentimental piece or just something you love, you want to keep your jewellery looking at its best spark and lustre. Jewellery can become dirty from natural skin oils and from dirt in the atmosphere. Regularly cleaning jewellery will help to keep it looking as gorgeous as the day it was purchased. Here with our recommended tips for caring jewellery we want to help you do that, which you can also use at your home to ensure the fine lustre of your piece is kept for years to come.
Day-to-day Care
Store your jewellery in a clean, dry place
Protect your jewellery in cotton bags or boxes when not in use.
Don't jumble pieces together as they can scratch each other and cause chipping
Keep them stored in separate boxes or in pieces of tissue paper
Do not wear when sleeping.
Do not spray perfume directly on beads, pearls or metals.
Avoid contact with water.
Clean with a soft damp soaped cloth & dry immediately.
Sterling silver will tarnish over time and with use. Clean with a sterling silver jewellery cloth.
Do not use jewellery cleaner or abrasive on pearls.
Always put pearls on after your make up.
Remove pearls before you apply body creams, or bathe.
Pearl necklaces and bracelets should be restrung periodical
Visit your local Jeweller store at least once a year in order to have all your jewellery professionally cleaned and checked for general wear and tear
Gold and Platinum Jewellery Care
We responsibly source yellow, rose white gold and platinum. To preserve the lustre of your gold jewellery, avoid exposure to household bleach and other cleaning products, which will quickly cause gold to discolour and possibly disintegrate. We recommend that you store your Gold and Platinum jewellery in a safe place when engaging in these activities:
Household and outdoor chores (i.e., cleaning and gardening)
Showering, bathing or swimming in pools, hot tubs, hot springs and the ocean
Using lotion, hair products, fragrances and other cosmetics
Exercising at the gym or during contact sports
Preparing meals
How to Clean and keep your Gold and Platinum Jewellery?
Polishing Cloth:
In order to restore the lustre of your gold jewellery, you may simply use a professional gold polishing cloth to polish the metal, which should produce a lovely shine. Alternatively, you may use a simple lint-free cloth which will also help re-shine the gold.
Cleaning Solution:
Dip bath to clean and maintain yellow, rose, white gold and platinum jewellery using Professional Jewellery Cleaner is probably the best home-solution for cleaning your pieces,. Specially designed to remove dirt from the metal and any diamonds or stones set in the jewellery,
it is fast, effective and is available in all jewellery stores.
Cleans and takes care of jewellery without damaging them. Oxidation, harmful perspiration, cosmetics and perfume are cleaned carefully and the luster and brightness of the jewellery are restored. The bath makes the jewelry shine. The Gold Clean gives back brightness to rings, bracelets and other jewellery. The cleaning bath purifies brooches, necklaces, earrings and any other precious objects. It cleans and maintains the jewellery.
How to use it?
Place your gold or platinum jewellery into the jewellery cleaner solution.
Follow the recommended time, usually takes two minutes, and using a pair of tweezers remove your jewellery from the solution.
Gently clean behind the settings and in between crevices with a soft bristle brush to remove any debris.
Rinse, blot dry and shine your gold or platinum jewellery with a jewellery polishing cloth.
Cleaning at Home:
If you do not have a Professional Jewellery Cleaner, you can make your own home solution. Simply mix a mild cleaning detergent such as washing liquid or liquid hand soap to luke-warm water to create a home solution. Immerse the jewellery in the solution and use a soft brush to gently clean the jewellery. Rinse under fresh water, and pat dry using a lint-free cloth.
Gemstone and Pearl Care
Crafted from precious materials, diamond, gemstone and pearl jewellery requires special care and attention. Dating back to the mid-19th century, jewellery legacy of discovering and acquiring rare gemstones played a major part in establishing the jewellery company as a high-end Jeweller, and we here at Touch of Venus Jewellery are presenting the pieces which can also b made on the special request fashioned with unique and beautiful gemstones like diamonds, emerald or natural pearls.
Diamond, gemstone and pearl jewellery needs to be treated with a special care. Even a diamond, the world’s hardest material, can be damaged under certain circumstances, and other gemstones are delicate. A clean diamond has a beautiful fire and a brilliant sparkle. Everyday products such as skin cream, soap, oils and cosmetics can dull your diamond’s natural radiance. Keep your diamond clean and gleaming.
To prevent damage as much as possible, we recommend to visit your local Jeweller store at least once a year in order to have all your jewellery professionally cleaned and checked for general wear and tear. We also recommend you avoid exposing your diamond, gemstone and pearl jewellery to the following:
Variable temperatures
Perfumes and cosmetics
Ultrasonic cleaning
Household chemicals
How to Clean Gemstone and Pearl Jewellery?
Gemstone Jewellery
Use recommended liquid jewellery cleaning solution, which is available in all jewellery stores. The liquid cleaner is the ideal home-solution to keeping your diamond as beautiful as they day you bought it. How to use it?
Place your gemstone jewellery into the jewellery cleaner solution.
After two minutes, use a pair of tweezers to remove your jewellery from the solution.
Gently clean behind the settings and in between crevices with a soft bristle brush to remove any debris.
Rinse the jewellery and dry with a polishing cloth.
Delicate gemstones can be cleaned with a soft brush and mild soap and water solution.
Pearl Jewellery
If worn often, pearls should be cleaned and restrung professionally once a year.
Between cleanings, wipe pearls gently with a damp cloth.
Always put pearls on after your make up.
Remove pearls before you apply body creams, or bathe.
Sterling Silver Jewellery Care
Sterling silver requires special care to preserve its appearance and longevity. In 1851, Touch of Venus Jewellery set the European standard for sterling silver, pioneering a mixture of 92.5% pure silver and 7.5% copper to enhance lustre, strength and durability. This remains the industry standard today. We also use the finest pure silver 999 in certain designs.
Sterling Silver reacts to sulfur dioxide in the air, and naturally discolors because of this reaction however this is normal and can be easily rectified.
How to Clean Silver Jewellery?
Sterling silver tarnishes when exposed to salty air, chlorine, sulfur, humidity, perspiration, cosmetics, household bleach and other strong chemicals. To prevent tarnish as much as possible, we recommend that you store your fine jewellery in a safe, dry place when engaging in the following activities:
Household and outdoor chores
Showering, bathing or swimming in pools, hot tubs, hot springs and the ocean
Using lotion, hair products, fragrances and other cosmetics
Exercising at the gym or during contact sports
Preparing meals
Dip bath to clean and maintain silver and silver-plated jewellery in the Sterling Silver Jewellery Professional Cleaner is also the best home-solution to cleaning your silver jewellery. This liquid has been specially designed to remove oxidation or discoloration from the metal, and to remove dirt from any stones set in the jewellery. Cleaning solution is fast, effective, and affordable. This solution will restore your silvers’ original colour and sparkle. Silver Clean gives back brightness to rings, bracelets and other silver and silver-plated jewellery which are tarnished. The cleaning bath protects and purifies brooches, necklaces, earrings. It maintains in depth the tarnished and oxidized jewelry.
Note: It is not recommended that pre-oxidized jewellery (such as Pandora) is cleaned in a de-oxidation solution.
Storing sterling silver pieces in the Touch of Venus Jewellery velvet pouch provided with your purchase will help prevent tarnish.
Furthermore each piece of jewellery from Touch of Venus Jewellery has been meticulously handcrafted and prepared. We use only the finest of materials in our designs including silver, 925, silver 999, 585/14ct gold, 24ct gold finish, or rose gold, original Swarovski crystals and pearls, natural pearls, Preciosa glass pearls and semi-precious gemstones like Venetian art Glass, Emerald, Sapphire, Amber, Agate, Amethyst, Quartz, Cubic Zirconia and anti-allergic materials.
Between wearings, we also recommend that you place your jewellery back in its Touch of Venus Jewellery velvet pouch which comes complimentary with every order for safekeeping and protecting your jewellery purchased in our Boutique.
We hope the above tips for caring jewellery will help you to keep the finest sparkle and lustre of your pieces for years to come.
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