JEWELRY CARE TIPS
Cleaning Your Sterling Silver Jewelry
Never dip any silver jewelry in 'dip' solutions or commercial cleaning solutions even though it may say that it is for silver jewelry. Dip cleaners will work the first few times, but after that, the silver jewelry may turn in color and will never look the same.
The best way to clean your jewelry is with a professional jewelry polishing cloth. The cloth is treated with cleaning chemicals and not only will the cloth last a long time, it will give you an amazing shine each and every time. The jewelry cleaning cloth we recommend is available from our store.
How To Care For Your Silver Jewelry
All our boro glass beads are hand picked for size and color with quality in mind, making each genuinely unique. Wired On Glass handcrafted silver jewelry will last a lifetime and with proper care can be passed from generation to generation.
Silver is one of the world’s most useful metals. Most silver jewelry is silver combined with other metals. Typically sterling silver consists of 92.5 percent silver and 7.5 percent copper. This makes it more suitable for wearable glass art jewelry.
Wearing your jewelry will help prevent tarnish; wearing and handling will slow the oxidation process and keep your silver shiny and new looking. Over time oxidation reactions will occur, especially with sulfur and oxygen, causing silver to become tarnished. Jewelry should be put on after make-up, hair product and perfumes are put on.
Minimize scratches and tarnishing by storing your jewelry in cloth pouches, small plastic bags and in separate compartments in your jewelry box.
All our jewelry is protected by a silverbrite plating process that will prevent tarnishing while the jewelry is on display. Jewelry should not require polishing for about one year.
We can provide another protection option by electroplating your jewelry with Palladium. Palladium plated jewelry requires virtually no polishing to keep your jewelry beautiful. Palladium will last indefinitely and allows many people with a silver allergy to wear our earrings.