Roma Designs

 Silver Cleaning Overview

Silver cleaning and caring for silver jewelry is simple to do if you follow a few basic steps. With a little care and maintenance, your silver jewelry should always shine.

When you purchase silver jewelry, the first thing to remember is that silver is a soft metal. Even a heavy silver ring will bend if enough force is added to it–which means, you should take off your ring before lifting anything heavy.

Storing Your Silver is an Important Part of Silver Cleaning

Another thing to bear in mind is how you store your jewelry when it is not being worn. Silver should never be stored with other metals or loose in a jewelry box. You should keep your silver in a small zippered plastic bag by itself. Not only will this keep other jewelry from rubbing the silver (possibly causing scratches), it will protect it from the air, which causes quick tarnishing.

Tarnishing is caused by oxidization and moisture in the air. It first appears as a golden hue on the silver, but quickly turns black.

Never leave silver jewelry lying against bare wood. Wood, especially oak, contains an acid that will mar the surface of the silver. Paper and cardboard, since they are wood pulp products, will have the same effect, so avoid storing silver in envelopes or small cardboard boxes also.

Easy Silver Cleaning Solutions

Silver jewelry should always be cleaned with a soft cotton or flannel cloth. Synthetic materials can cause scratching. You can also purchase a silver cleaning cloth, which has anti-tarnish ingredients, and keep it inside your jewelry box for quick cleaning. You can also use a child’s toothbrush to get into intricate scrollwork or patterns.

What We Use For Silver Cleaning

Here at Roma Designs we use Blitz polishing cloths to keep a  brilliant luster on our silver jewelry.  If you need something extra to clean more intricate jewelry, we also have a Blitz Silver Shine solution that removes tarnish. 

Silver Jewelry with Stones

It is important to remember that if your silver has stones you should not use a solution as this may loosen the stone.  Stones are sometimes pressure set, but are often fastened to jewelry with special adhesives.  A solution can wear this adhesive off and cause the stone to fall out.  Silver cleaning in this case should be done with a polishing cloth.