How to Clean Your Jewelry at Home

Clean your jewelry at home regularly to keep it looking new all the time. There is nothing like the feeling when you look down at your Engagement ring and the Diamond catches the sun and sparkles stunningly back at you or your new necklace glows as you top off your favorite outfit with it. However, if you aren’t caring for your jewelry properly, after a few weeks, they start to lose their shine. We are here to teach you how to clean your jewelry at home and keep it sparkling for years to come.

How To Keep Your Jewelry in Great Shape for Years

First, the most important thing to do to keep your jewelry not only looking brand new but also staying in great shape is to take it to your local jeweler regularly for cleaning, polishing, and checking. We offer this for free at Michael J’s. We recommend doing this at least every three months.

Cleaning Your Jewelry at Home

When it comes to cleaning your jewelry at home, we recommend 70% Isopropyl Alcohol OR a Dawn type of Dish Soap. Let the jewelry sit for about 30 minutes in the alcohol or soap and then take a toothbrush and scrub out any debris. Do NOT put silver or gold together in the same cleaning solution at the same time. Do NOT use bleach, this will eat away the alloys taking away from the integrity of your jewelry.

Old wives’ tales have claimed many things for jewelry cleaning, from bleach down to toothpaste, we do not recommend either of these things.

We also sell a jewelry cleaner and polishing cloth in-store at Michael J’s if you want to take your at-home care a step further, just ask for it next time you come in for your free cleaning and polishing!

Once again, it is great to clean your jewelry at home but nothing replaces taking your jewelry in to be cleaned and checked by a professional every couple of months.

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