pearl jewelry wholesale

If you find that your pearls and a few gems are scratched and your silver is tarnished; it may be that you are not storing and cleaning your jewelry properly. Cleaning and Storing of Jewelry doesn’t have to be so hard nor does it have to be expensive. Jewelry can be stored properly using cheap readily available materials and cleaning can be achieved with the use of ordinary household cleaners. Here are a few tips that you might find handy when cleaning and storing valuables.

Toothpastes and dish soaps are best left for use on the kitchen sink. It is not advisable to use these products when cleaning jewelry as they may be abrasive and cause stones to loose their luster. It is then advised that you use a sudsy solution when cleaning jewelry.

Soak jewelry in warm sudsy water for at least an hour before rinsing them under warm running water. After the jewelry has been rinsed. Pat them dry with a towel or another absorbent fabric.Most of the time, running jewelry under water is enough to get them clean but there are hose that are studded. Grime and grease gets into the nooks and crannies. For these stubborn dirt you can use and eyebrow brush or a soft baby’s brush to gently clean it.

To remove greasy residues on diamonds soak them in alcohol a few minutes before running them under water. Don’t use alcohol on all your jewelry because most of them are not as hard as diamonds and may be damaged when they come in contact with it.

Be careful when using commercial cleaners because they may damage your jewelry when used improperly. An example of a commercial cleaner is an ultrasonic cleaner. Don’t use an ultrasonic cleaner on the following stones: Emerald, Peridot, Tanzanite, Topaz, and Opals. When using ultrasonic cleaners, don’t soak jewelry for more than a few minutes.

Gems and precious stones have different gradients of hardness. Stones are on the top of the list. They are very hard to scratch but they can scratch other items. Diamonds are the hardest, below them are sapphire, rubies, etc. at the lower end of the list you will find pearls and metals like gold, platinum and silver. With that in mind, it is wise to store jewelry separately or at least in individual containers or pouches.

I am a rape survivor. Not something I ever thought pearl wholesale china. I’d be “when I grow up.” But here I am a survivor a statistic. And I’m not alone – though you might not know it whole sale sterling silver one in six American women are victims of sexual assault and one in thirty three men. An even more alarming statistic handmade gem wrapped jewelry is that only 16 of every 100 victims will ever report the crime to police and only 1 in 100 rapists serve a prison term of more than one year of pearls cheap.

Tags: diamond engagement ring, fashion jewelry, good qualities, styles and shapes, wholesale sterling silver jewelry

This entry was posted on Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 at 9:45 am and is filed under freshwater pearl necklace. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.