How to clean and maintain gold jewelry
4hw.com.cn: I believe that many friends will have some gold ornaments at home, more or less. If they don't take them or store them for a long time, the surface color will be dim and lose luster. How to clean and maintain the gold ornaments? Let's take a look at the common tips of gold cleaning and maintenance.
1. Use a small toothbrush to dip some toothpaste, brush and wash the gold ornaments, and then wash them with water, which can restore the luster and luster. If there is a dead corner, use a small toothpick to pick one, or the more dirty it is, especially the gold ring, which is often used to operate household chores, it is easy to stick dirty things;
2. You can dip a small cotton stick with dew and wipe the gold jewelry;
3. If the cotton stick can't wipe the edge of the jewelry, use the rice washing water left at home to soak the jewelry, not only to soak the dirty things away, but also to increase the brightness;
4, or simply buy new gold jewelry, put a nail polish on the surface of the jewelry, buy a good nail polish, poor quality will soon fall off, think that the nail polish off the nail, will also wear jewelry surface, good nail polish can protect the luster of gold jewelry;
5. If there is a layer of black film on the surface of jewelry, it is necessary to use a professional metal cleaning solution, which can be 2 grams of salt, 7 grams of bicarbonate, 8 grams of bleaching powder and 60 ml of clear water. Mix them together, put the gold jewelry in the cleaning agent, take it out and clean it with water every 1-2 hours, and dry the water to make it fresh;
6. Don't touch too many things with a gold ring, or it will be black, just like a cataract. If you don't pay attention to it, you can soak salt and vinegar together, throw the ring inside for a bubble, take it out, wash it and dry it.
Professional cleaning method:
1. Soak the gold jewelry in the diluted acetic acid solution, soak it for 10 minutes, then brush it with a brush, and finally rinse it with clean water.
2. It is to brush gold jewelry gently with soft brush dipped in hot water. It is better to use absorbent cotton ball dipped in soapy water and anhydrous alcohol for scrubbing. However, abrasive particles (such as toothpaste, polishing paste, fine sandpaper or fine sandcloth) shall not be used for scrubbing to avoid reducing the weight of gold and causing losses.
3. You can send the gold jewelry to the jewelry counter in the mall. The jewelry counter is equipped with a sound wave cleaner. Just put the gold jewelry in it and clean it.
4. Pure gold jewelry is not afraid of fire. It is said that real gold is not afraid of fire. If you put the gold jewelry in the torch and burn it, the stains on the surface will evaporate.
How to maintain gold?
1. prevent direct contact with high volatile substances such as perfume or hair spray, otherwise it will cause fading of gold ornaments.
2. Pure gold jewelry will have chemical reaction when it meets mercury, showing white spots. When cleaning, it only needs to be barbecued under the alcohol lamp for a while, and then it can recover its color.
3. The chemicals of detergent will change the color of gold, so the gold ornaments should be removed before cleaning.
4. Wrap it with flannelette before putting it into jewelry box to prevent mutual friction and damage.
5. Remove the gold ornaments when swimming to avoid chemical changes on the surface after touching the sea water or pool water
6. After wearing, the gold ornaments often lose luster due to the infection of stains and dust. At this time, just put the gold ornaments in the neutral detergent to soak in warm water and clean, and then take them out and wipe them dry.