Maintainance of Jewellery :

1.   Never wear your jewellery, when you go swimming. Both water with chlorine and salt water can tarnish black gold- and silver-jewellery !
2. Jewellery, that you wear directly on your skin is sensitive to cosmetics and can tarnish black or lose colour to your skin.
3.   Many precious stones are very sensitive to grease and can change their colour i.e. turquoise
4.   Some precious stones and pearls have a natural content of water i.e. opal. Drying them out in the heat of the sun or sauna, can lead to cracks and other damages.
5.   Taking certain medicine can tarnish black your silver-jewellery.
6.   Some precious stones (i.e amethyst, blue topaz) are sensitive to light and can lose their colour when exposed to sunlight.

How best to clean your jewellery:

To clean your jewellery at home you can use special polishing cloths for gold and silver, impregnated with cleaning agents, that guarantee a careful cleaning for jewellery and its precious stones.
For silver-jewellery there are special cleaning solutions and pastes available, but most of them are poisonous and should be handled with care. These cleaning agents remove the dark layers on silver and also include a protection against oxidation. Some precious stones (i.e turquoise) may be sensitive to those detergents, so be careful, not to use any detergent in that cases.
After the cleaning process, rinse your jewellery carefully to remove all recesses.
Less soiled jewellery can very easy be cleaned in a bowl of warm water with a touch of cleaning detergent and household ammonia by using an old tooth brush. (Please don´t use any toothpaste - it can only mat but not polish your jewellery !).

A professional cleaning and polishing needs a polishing motor and an ultrasonic bath and can only be done at a jeweller´s store. Every jeweller will look forward to clean your jewellery and controll your gem set jewellery.