Cleaning jewellery

[Daisy]

Grauntie mentioned that she's just cleaned her jewellery, and Oma says she has a gadget to do it that shakes the dirt off.

I'm intrigued and mystified how Oma's thingy works, and think Grauntie has a magic wand!

How do you clean your jewellery?

Mine is mostly silver and I use one of those zinc plates, boiling hot water and a dollop of soda crystals. The dirt just floats off, then a quick wash in warm soapy water, rinse and dry, job done. But there are things I can't use this for, like my engagement ring, so I'm wondering what other people use?

[Lizzie48]

I have one of those "gadgets", use it to clean my specs as well, saw them do that in the shop so thought it would be handy.

[Gemini]

A friend once told me about cleaning silver jewellery with toothpaste. Amazingly it works, and it means if you forget and you are away in a hotel you can easily shine up your silver!
I have to say it doesn't last as long as cleaning it with silver cleaner, so you need to do it more often, but it's what I generally do.
I'm not keen on gold, so apart from my wedding ring there is none of that to clean. I don't have an engagement ring.

[Grauntie Mag]

I am sorely tempted by the machine that Oma has. I ended up poking around with a brush and flicking out a moonstone from a ring. Good job it wasn’t a precious stone. 🙄
I have all sorts. I had my engagement ring restyled a few times before I was happy. Now I am having my original wedding ring (never wear it) remade into a ‘halo’ style, like a curtain ring, round all over.
I do like making jewellery but only junk.
Not seen the zinc plates though, will scoot over to safari and google.

[Oma]

This is my little gadget cleans everything engagement rings, necklaces, earrings, medals etc love it

[Plantaholic]

Interesting, I must look it up.

[Plantaholic]

There are several advertised on Amazon, different sizes, different prices. Which one do you have Oma?

[Oma]

Mine is a silver crest I think it was a Aldi one but there are many just as good Plant . Mine isn't a large one I think it was about £16.99 x

[Plantaholic]

Ok, I will have a look again on Amazon

[Daisy]

I am sorely tempted by the machine that Oma has. I ended up poking around with a brush and flicking out a moonstone from a ring. Good job it wasn’t a precious stone. 🙄
I have all sorts. I had my engagement ring restyled a few times before I was happy. Now I am having my original wedding ring (never wear it) remade into a ‘halo’ style, like a curtain ring, round all over.
I do like making jewellery but only junk.
Not seen the zinc plates though, will scoot over to safari and google.

Grauntie, I believe you can also just use some ordinary kitchen tinfoil instead of a zinc plate, but I've never tried it. I use my zinc plate for other silver as well - we've got some silver-plated cutlery which it's really useful for.

I didn't know you made jewellery - clever lady.

This is almost identical to mine:


https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nushine-Mag...35828300&psc=1

I put it in a plastic washing up bowl, add soda crystals, a pint of boiling water and more very hot water and just bung everything in. As long as each item touches another item they will be cleaned.


Edit -
Just seen aa advert for my Qwicksilver zinc plate which I've had for about 20 years!!

http://www.qwicksilver.co.uk/

[Grauntie Mag]

Thanks for the links Daisy. I have tried silver foil but didn’t find it worked very well. Will investigate further.

[Plantaholic]

I have ordered a cleaning silver gadget Oma recommended I haven't cleaned my jewellery for ages.

[Oma]

I clean mine regular with it Plant so easy , my MIL always gets me to clean hers when she comes over too

[WeeGranny]

I pop my rings in a SMALL amount of gin, give them a shake, leave them for a bit, get any gungy bits out with a pin,give them a scrub with a toothbrush and rinse them under the tap! Rings all shiny again!

[Daisy]

WeeGranny - what, no ice and lemon! I've heard about using gin but I've never tried it. I could do with giving my engagement ring a bit of a clean up.