The truth says that it is not enough to buy an ornament and to be able to use it, it is necessary to be able to store it with knowledge.
• If in a long-awaited vacation at sea you went with gold ornaments, it should be remembered that many popular modern castles use a steel spring, which starts to rust quickly in salt water. Therefore, in order not to cause such a trouble, it is necessary to drip a droplet of machine oil into the interior of the lock of an ornament, although any oil that forms a waterproof film is suitable in its absence. After leaving the sea, it is necessary to wash the lock with fresh water.
• If the gold jewelry is heavily soiled, you need to make a solution of the dishwashing detergent, and then drop these golden products into it. It is necessary to leave them in solution for the whole night or for the whole day off, from time to time, shake the dishes until the dirt comes off the products.
• Refresh gold-plated and gold jewelry, darkened from time, can be used with juice of onions. To do this, you need to rub their surface with this juice, and then leave for 1.5 - 2 hours. Then decorations must be rinsed under a stream of plain water and allow them to dry out.
• If jewelry made of gold lost their shine, then they must be washed in a solution of soap, which is added with ammonia (at the rate of 0.5 teaspoon of alcohol per glass of water). Then they should be rinsed with plain clean water and wiped. To return the glitter to gold jewelry with stones of ammonia, you need to take only 6 drops on the glass.
• When using cosmetics such as creams, ointments, etc., which are based on salts and mercury, gold jewelry should be removed. It turns out that, for example, mercury is able not only to change the color of gold, while leaving gold spots on the gold product, but also to destroy gold itself.
• Gold jewelery must not be affected by alkaline detergents containing iodine and chlorine.
• The gold chain can be washed in a bottle, shaking it lightly until the dirt comes off, and then simply dried with a towel. In such ornaments as the rings, most of the dust is able to accumulate under the stone. Therefore, it is necessary to put a piece of cotton wool on a match, then moisten it in glycerin or cologne, or in a mixture of ammonia and magnesia, and then clean gently with a match stone and its rim below and above. Then, with a piece of suede or flannel, the ring should be polished. It is not recommended to clean the stone frame with sharp objects so as not to damage the stone. Rinse the gold thing can be simply in the solution of water and ammonia (per 1 glass of 6 drops of ammonia). And it is also good to keep the golden things in slightly sweetened water.
• To prevent dark spots from appearing on gold bracelets, earrings, and watches during contact with damp skin, they must be wiped with flannel or suede before putting on them.
• Products that have inserts must be protected from the effects of rapidly changing temperatures on them. Particular care should be given to gold ornaments with pearls, turquoise, corals. When these cosmetics, soap, acetone, perfume, acids, water and sun rays are applied to these stones, the color of these stones is able to change (especially in turquoise).
• To remove the grease from the pearl on the gold product, you simply wash it in a solution of soap and dry it. You can not leave gold rings with stones or engagement rings while doing household work, because scratches can appear on the surface of the stone or ring. For storage of gold ornaments, it is best to use special cases.
• Many gold items can be cleaned by manual polishing with felt woolen or cloth brushes, which have crocus paste in the form of a gruel made from a paste slightly diluted in alcohol or water, or in the form of a powder.
• As a rule, products with matt gilding or with inserts of stones and pearls that are very sensitive to the effects of chemical preparations on them can be refurbished by polishing with a soft brush, using sodium bicarbonate dissolved in ammonia.
• Gold products without stones and products with inserts that are not susceptible to the destructive effects of chemicals should be cleaned by immersion for a short time in a slightly warmed-up solution containing such substances: 30 g. table salt, 50g. lime chloride, 120g. bicarbonate of sodium bicarbonate and half a liter of water. When using the methods described above for cleaning gold ornaments, it is necessary to wash them after washing in clean water and dry them.