How to clean gold at home?

Everyone knows the expression "not all that glitters is gold." That is why the owners of gold jewelry believe that their rings and earrings, bracelets and chains simply shine. But products from this noble metal are constantly worn, they get cream, cosmetics and they quickly lose their luster. To make your favorite jewelry beautiful again, you need to clean it from time to time.

Before you start cleaning such products, you need to consider a number of very important characteristics:

• Many products of this kind have complex shapes and not all places can be cleaned without problems - these are stone inserts, various joints and bends, patterns and ornament. But if you take a brush to clean your teeth and use it when washing the product with water, the problem will disappear. You can also use a cotton swab.
• The capacity for cleaning compounds must be selected so that the decoration can fit in it completely, not partially.

• It is necessary to choose cleaning methods, taking into account the features and characteristics of the item being cleaned.
• It is not necessary to leave the cleaning agent on the product for too long, since the composition may dry out and then not only plaque, but also the cleaning agent itself will have to be removed from the product.
• If you need to remove dirt or stains from gold earrings, rings, pendants or chains, you should first consider the product. It is necessary to take into account the alloy, configuration, the presence of patterns and precious stones. And only then a gentle and effective way to combat plaque or dirt is selected.

This is hard to believe, but most of the tools that are constantly found at our fingertips — from ammonia and onions to vodka and foil — are most often used to clean gold items. These tools are useful for cleaning precious items even with a serious degree of color clouding or pollution:

• Ammonia and vodka.
• Any dishwasher.
• Baking soda, foil.
• Hydrogen peroxide.
• Onions and potatoes.
• Crushed chalk and petroleum jelly.
• Beer, egg white.
• Sugar or salt.

To wash blackened gold, use one of the following options:

• Method one. Here, first you need to stir 1 spoonful of Fairy in water. In a shallow container, a rag is placed on the bottom, on top is a darkened decoration, which is covered with a solution on top. The composition boils for 5-10 minutes. Boiled items need only be washed under water and dried. This method is most suitable for getting rid of small spots.
• Second way. A bracelet or ring that has lost its luster or product that has faded from the fire is restored to its former beauty with baking soda and a piece of foil. 1 large spoon of soda is dissolved in a glass of water. Foil spreads at the bottom of any container, earrings, a chain or a wedding ring are placed, all this is poured with soda solution.

• Third way. Prepare the composition of a glass of boiling water, 1 large spoonful of soda and half a spoonful of Fairy. Lower the rag to the bottom of the container, put the product on top. Pour it with a mixture and heat over a fire for 20 minutes, and after that just leave the solution to cool. We take the product out of the container and carefully dry it.
• The fourth way. This express method will allow you to get rid of the blackness of the chain by exposure to chemicals. In a glass of ordinary water, 1 tablespoon of ammonia is diluted, 30 ml of 3% peroxide and a little ordinary liquid soap are added. Items fall into the solution for only half an hour and they will return to their former beauty and brilliance.
• Fifth way. For this tool you will need unusual components: onion and potatoes. They will help to remove dirt and stains from all types of gold. The ingredients are grated so that the gruel comes out without juice. Jewelry is placed in the gruel and wait a couple of hours. Then the products are removed, washed and dried.

• Another similar recipe is the use of one onion. The onion is cut in half, and the product is rubbed with this cut. Onion juice will quickly remove stains, it does not matter if this is a new or old ring or bracelet. Do not use onion juice cleaning for products that have stones.

• The sixth way. Gold perfectly rescues sugar solution from dirt. Sugar is bred in water - 1 large spoonful of sugar per glass of water. Here the gold rests for 6 hours, then it is washed well and wiped. There is a similar method of cleaning, but with salt: 3-4 tablespoons of salt are diluted in a glass of water, the products in the product remain overnight. By the way, it is believed that by cleaning a product made of precious metal with salt solution, you save it from the negative of previous owners of the jewelry.

• The seventh method. Another unusual remedy is Coca-Cola. Pour the drink into the container, put the products there, after 10-12 hours, remove them, rinse and dry. The use of Coca-Cola is absolutely not suitable for products with pebbles. These methods are good for caring for products with small spots. The most important thing here is to properly soak the product so that it is completely under the influence of the solution.

• Method Eighth. To clean gold with ammonia using ordinary washing powder, you need to choose a glass or plastic container, so as not to cause oxidation. To get the solution, you need: half a glass of boiled water, 4 ml of ammonia, a tablespoon of powder. The products are placed in solution for 2-3 hours, then they are rinsed and wiped dry.
• Method nine. Liquid soap and peroxide are also used when you need to wash gold from plaque. For example, if you need to clean out a donated worn item or item after a pawnshop.It is necessary to mix: half a glass of water, 50 ml of hydrogen peroxide, a little liquid soap and ammonia. Water should first be heated, then mix all the components with it. This composition contains decorations. Soaking time - 20 minutes. At the end of the process, the products must be washed with water and wiped with a lint-free cloth.

• The tenth method. To just clean the chain, you need to prepare a solution of water and a slurry of soap. A gold chain is placed in such a solution for only a couple of hours. After this, use a small stiff brush to clean the gold object well. Then rinse the decoration with running water and put on a napkin to dry. To combat old spots, you should repeat this procedure more than once or apply serious cleaning.

• Method Eleventh. The excellent effect is obtained using a mixture of chalk, 5-10 grams of petroleum jelly, soap and water. All this is kneaded, in this solution they wet a rag and wipe the entire product with it. Then it is rinsed in water and dried. A chain or other jewelry will restore its original shine.
• The twelfth way. Cleaning gold with vinegar is considered the most inappropriate way, especially when it comes to expensive jewelry. Vinegar can seriously ruin them, because there are some types of stones to which this effect is not dangerous, and other stones can ruin them. If you want to clean gold with vinegar, choose a low concentration of it - no more than 3% liquid and dilute it with pure water.
• Grandma's recipes: tooth powder, bread crust and regular lipstick. You can grate gold items with a crumb of bread; brush the pendant with a good tooth powder, slightly diluted with water, or using toothpaste, grease the gold jewelry with lipstick for 10 minutes and then wipe it with a cloth.

If you need to clean the jewelry from serious stains, then only professional methods will help you. For these purposes, paste is used, which is bought ready-made from a jeweler or you can make it yourself.

To do this, take evenly heated water, petroleum jelly, planed laundry soap and crushed chalk. All this is combined and rubbed to a paste. The rest of the product is washed with alcohol and wiped with a napkin. So you can clean the white coating on the product or mask scratches on it.

To restore shine, in some stores you can buy a professional solution, spray or paste, wet or dry polishing wipes. Choosing how to clean gold items at home, it is important not to forget about the stones. You can purchase compositions for smooth gold jewelry and for products inlaid with pebbles.

If you want to clean the gold yourself, buy a special container. It is necessary to put products in it for a while, as indicated in the instructions, and then rinse them and wipe them with a dry cloth. Sprays are best suited for complex forms that cannot be completely wetted. There are separate compounds for cleaning gold, enameled and expensive stones.

It is best to use disposable wipes for cleaning. Using them, you will almost instantly restore brightness to a ring or watch, a stylish bracelet. Napkins can regularly clean products with pebbles. Wipes with impregnation and abrasives are needed for constant care. But Do not use them daily, so as not to disrupt their topcoat.

Gold is a beautiful and expensive metal and you need to take care of it regularly. Gold items themselves are significantly different, so they will differ and methods for cleaning and caring for them:

• The most basic way to remove stains and dirt from matte gold. Lime with water can be used to clean dull products. 3-4 grams of lime should be mixed with water, adding only 1 gram of soda.This mixture is infused for three days, gold is lowered into it for three hours, and the jewelry will soon become clean.
• To clean products in which there are no stones, ammonia is used. Dip gold objects in a solution of this substance for 5-6 hours. After rinse the product and wipe thoroughly.
• Stylish and chic items have always been made from white gold. To obtain such a color, nickel is included in the alloy, and rhodium is sprayed on top. At the same time, the rhodium layer is small, so it is not recommended to rub this type of gold with a brush with paste.

• You can apply an unusual recipe: mix ammonia and ordinary water equally, add a little ordinary shampoo. Put the product in just half an hour. After you need to take it out, rinse, dry with a soft cloth.
• Another original way to clean snow-white gold. Mix 1 egg white with half a glass of beer, soak a cloth with this liquid, and wipe the product with it.
• “Medical gold” does not apply to medical science at all, just as it does not apply to gold directly. Nowadays, this alloy is widely used in jewelry. To clean these jewelry use a solution of 50 ml of water, 15 grams of tooth powder and 30 ml of 10% ammonia. The fabric is wetted with this compound to wipe the jewelry with it. This method is also suitable for cleaning products of the 750th sample and high-quality materials that skillfully imitate expensive metal, for example, Dubai gold.

Darkened diamond products are cleaned by soaking and applying ammonia. In a glass with boiling water, cleaning powder and a spoonful of 25% ammonia are added. In these mixed components you need to leave gold for an hour and a half. After cleaning, the jewelry is washed. Such a mixture perfectly cleans even very old gold from all kinds of stains and dirt.

Mechanical cleaning is often the only way to restore the luster of gold. It is important to know that abrasive substances cannot be used in such a process, especially if there are cubic zirconias in jewelry, since such a surface is easily scratched.

Folk methods of mechanical cleaning:

• Dentifrice. It is used when there is no paste, and it’s much easier to clean it, because the surface of the product is not damaged.
• Chalk with ammonia. With their help, you can thoroughly clean the jewelry, then they are washed and dried.
• Vinegar. A soft rag is moistened in it, then the spots are carefully processed.

If you have a large number of jewelry made of expensive metal, you should look for yourself professional gold cleaning devices.

The cleaning here consists of a serious effect on the objects placed in this device with the help of ultrasonic waves that destroy the dirt in the least accessible places. With the latest jewelry technologies, you will not need to spoil a cross, earrings, a pectoral icon or a pendant with a characteristic convex pattern, various delicate jewelry with a cleaning substance.

This care is considered completely safe for almost all natural and non-natural pebbles, enamel and spraying from rhodium and other material. It can be used to care for silver or platinum items, any jewelry. Such devices are used by jewelers in their daily work.

Jewelry with “capricious” (soft) stones, such as turquoise and pearls, amber or emerald, can be quickly ruined by an improperly selected cleaning method. The stones can then change color in a solution hazardous to them, tarnish, or even fall out of the fasteners. Products with a relief pattern, inlaid with mother of pearl or enamel also require a careful approach.

If you need to clean such items, you should go to the jeweler workshop nearest to your home. There, they will select the appropriate cleaning for the product: it can be ultrasound or ointment, soaked in wipes or special cosmetics.

Many are interested in how to clean products with precious stones at home. The usual cleaning methods will not work here, and if the inserts are glued to the base, then they should not be placed in water at all.

Today, cleaning options are considered very popular, such as:

• cologne. You need to take a regular cotton swab. Moisten cotton wool in cologne and calmly clean the stones. Do not use pointed objects for this, otherwise the product will be damaged;
• alcohol solution. Soft tissue is generously wetted in this solution. The product is cleaned with this cloth, then wiped with a damp cloth and dried. So you can quickly clean the wedding ring or stylish gold watch from dirt;
• petrol. If the spots are too large - you can use gasoline. You need to find a toothbrush with soft, medium-long bristles, moisten it thoroughly in gasoline. Using a brush, gently remove all dirt and stains from gold.

Gold with stones should be cleaned as carefully as possible, because the use of aggressive agents can seriously impair the stylish appearance of a product. If, for example, you begin to constantly use alcohol, then pearls, turquoise, amber and malachite can forever lose their bright shine.

The best way to return the former bright shine to an expensive item with a stone can be considered a solution in which equal parts of cold water and alcohol are mixed. The excellent result in cleaning stones is given by the use of charred matches. You just need to rub the stone with the head of such a match and rinse it with water.

Hard stones are quartz and beryl, aquamarine and topaz, sapphire. It is worth remembering the basic rules that you will need when cleaning these stones:

• You can safely use ammonia and peroxide to clean them. A solution of water, soap and hydrogen peroxide will also help in this matter.
• Permanent care can be done with soap dissolved in slightly heated water. You just need to hold a bracelet, a cross or a chain with a pendant in such a solution for about 10 minutes. After that, put the jewelry on a napkin that absorbs moisture

• To restore the shine to the product with these stones, ammonia is also used. A little liquid ammonia is added to the jar of water, jewelry is dropped there for half an hour. Clean hard-to-reach spots with a cotton moistened with ammonia and wash the items under running water. This method is also suitable for cleaning rings and earrings with cubic zirconias.
• Pearls will lose their luster upon close contact with chemicals. It is too fragile and can be scratched by inaccurate cleaning. To clean a golden thing with an insert from pearls, you need to take a soft brush with a long pile and moisten it with water. The brush is dipped in hair shampoo and jewelry with the pearl is smeared with it. After half an hour, gently rinse the cleaning composition with the same brush.

If necessary, clean the gold with a cotton swab and peroxide.

Do not clean jewelry made of different metals together, as they can turn white. Particular attention must be paid to combination gold. This is a composition of two or several types of metal at once, the percentage of each ingredient that is part of such a product determines the cost of the jewelry.

There are many unusual types of gold that differ from each other in color, which depends on the second component of the alloy. It is recommended to clean such gold with ammonia and wash it with soap foam. The process of rubbing with ammonia will be more effective if you add chalk or powder for the teeth to the mixture.

You can clean gold with enamel only in cold water. All chemicals can destroy a beautiful pattern with their action.When cleaning, usually 3-4 drops of ammonia are added to water, you can use tooth powder. It is better to clean products with a flannel cloth or brush. At the end of cleaning, the jewelry is rinsed in clean water and rubbed to a shine.

If you need to wash the product from iodine, then a glass of water and one spoon of sodium hyposulfite are used for this. You can find it in a regular pharmacy. Dip the gold in a solution of iodine, in half an hour all the spots will dissolve.

Darkened spots are removed with a bulb or ordinary table vinegar. After cleaning the contaminated product, rinse your jewelry with running water as thoroughly as possible and dry thoroughly. Suitable for quick and high-quality cleaning and special chemicals for quick processing of any jewelry. They perfectly remove the fat that often settles on the surface of rings and earrings and all kinds of compounds of various metals.

You can clean an expensive product with regular toothpaste without additives: with a soft brush, apply the paste itself and gently clean the contaminated area. If you have long been thinking of cleaning a gold chain at home without outside help, just brush it with paste, then squeeze it inside a soft cloth and pull it back and forth several times.

If you want to know how to wash gold at the highest quality at home to make it shiny, then you need to familiarize yourself with the basic methods of cleaning products to a dazzling sheen:

• The first way. Salt perfectly absorbs various fats and all kinds of unpleasant “aromas”. Therefore, it is also used for high-quality and effective cleaning of expensive gold items. In order to wash the gold thoroughly, you will need water and a little salt. In a mug with boiling water, stir 3 tablespoons of the ingredient. Drop into this composition all available gold items. After 14 hours, it remains only to remove them and rinse in cold running water.

• Second way. Foil and baking soda will give a bright shine to old products. To make the old gold shine brightly, rinse it in a solution of boiled water and soda. Lower the foil to the bottom of the container. Put here all your gold rings and pendants, chains and durable bracelets and fill them with the resulting solution. The ingredients for the remedy are a spoonful of baking soda in a glass of water. After 10 hours, your products will shine like never before.

• The third way. You can clean gold to a dazzling shine at home with ordinary lipstick of any color. Take it and thickly smear a ring or chain. Rub with a regular cloth, as if rubbing lipstick into the product itself, and then rinse with water or gently wipe with cotton. You yourself will see that your old ring sparkles in the light.

For many ordinary people, it will be important to learn how to clean gold at home to get an impeccable and durable result. And for this you need to know that gold without an alloy with jewelry made of other metals is better not to wear or store nearby.

Frequent contact with air or water oxidation processes may begin. It is also necessary to clean gold in a timely manner also because pollution is harmful to health: spots on it can cause allergies.

You need to learn how to properly care for gold:

• Avoid contact with acid-base media. These components are in the compositions of almost all detergents and detergents. Also, do not drip solvent on gold items. But many women wash nail polish with a liquid with a solvent, and gold products are not previously removed from the hands, and then they are amazed when it turns black. Many cosmetics have mercury and chlorine components that adversely affect gold.
• Be sure to remove gold if you are working with coloring compounds and abrasive compounds.
• Before a bath or a visit to the solarium, it is best to take off all the gold items.
• Do not put gold in ordinary cardboard boxes for storage, because sulfur is part of this material. Because of her, things will seriously blacken.
• From time to time, clean your expensive jewelry from all kinds of stains.

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