Alright! As I have promised in last blog that, I'll show you how to clean your jewelries without expensive stuff! K, here are my few collections that I'll be cleaning.
Fossil Stainless Steel Watch
Guess Stainless Steel Watch
Giorgio Armani Stainless Steel & Silver Watch
SilverWolf Silver Ring
Hawaiian Design Silver Ring
Tungsten Carbide Ring
24K Gold Cat's Eye Ring
Silver Ring on Silver Necklace
K, these are stuff you need.
Regular Dish soap
Baking Soda
2 Cups
Tooth Brush
Paper Towel
Now, before start. Let me write the safety blah blah. If gets into your eyes, wash it off with cold water. If you eat the dish soap or baking soda lil bit. You ain't gonna die, but gonna have massive pain in your stomach so I wouldn't recommend eating them. And more blah blah.... So don't be dumb now, K. Other blah blah would be your items safety. Now, it's your own risk to do this.
K, done with all the blah blah, let's start.
Step 1: Prep 1
Put a 1~2 table spoon of
Baking Soda in the one of the cup with mild hot water. Hot water doesn't need to be REALLY hot! Hot enough, but not to burn your hand. Put in your jewelries inside the cup. Keep it in there for about 30~45 sec (less than 1 min).
NOTE! If you're putting a watch in there, make sure watch is water proof. If not, just put it to the side like I did with Armani Watch.
Step 2: Prep 2
Put about 1 table spoon of
Baking Soda and
Dish Soap in your hand and mix it around with
Tooth Brush.
When you finish mixing. It's become Goo-ish thing or like tooth paste looking. If you need to add more
Baking Soda or
Dish Soap, then do so. It should look as in below.
Step 3: Start Cleaning
After making that Goo, pull out one of the jewelry and start cleaning by using the
Tooth Brush.
NOTE! That Goo should last you to clean 4~7 jewelries, but if it ran out, make it again. Also,
Tooth Brush is extra fine can help clean out all the deep dirts inside.
Step 4: Clean Cup
After you've finish brushing & cleaning them, put it in the another cup that is full more warm water. Same thing, if the watch isn't water proof, put it next to it.
Note! You can see from the pic below, how dirty is the water got in the first cup. It's so gross~~!
....Oh Yeah! Step 5: Wash it off
K, wash your hands and start wash off all the jewelries using warm water. While washing it off, use
Tooth Brush again to go more deeper inside.
Note! For watch that isn't water proof, I still wash it off with warm water. If you do it quickly,
it should be okay. But that's just my watch anyways.
What step was it?... Step... 6!: Dry 'em off with Towel
After washing them off, you can put them on top of
Paper Towel. I like to use
Paper Towel cuz it can suck more water faster than regular towel, but it's your choice.
Note! Leave it there to air dry is okay, but make sure to change the
Paper Towel to dry one. I like to air dry it for bit and start drying them off one by one with
Paper Towel.
Final Step: Check!
Make sure all the jewelries are dry. If not, go back and do the last step. K, here's the my jeweleries look like after cleaning them.
Note! If you don't like cleaning jewelries, I would recommend buying Tungsten Carbide jewelries. Why? Cuz, Tungsten Carbide is one of
Hardest Metal in the world. NASA use this metal, cuz it's high strength to Cold and Heat. It said that you can drop the Tungsten Ring from Space to Earth and the Ring will keep it's shape whole time. Also it doesn't have Cobolt in there to cause rashes or make your finger green. So if you have allergies to silver or gold don't need to worry, it's allergy free! But Price isn't cheap to give you heads up. Mine cost me $400. They run around $300~$1,200. Tungsten Carbide ring looks like...
Well, hope it help you guys out. This cleaning is for all crystal and metal cleaning. So Diamond, Sapphire, Rubies, Platinum, Gold, Silver, Stainless Steel, you name it! It won't hurt your precious crystals. I've already tried it with my step-father's wedding ring (which is 5 Diamonds, Platinum band with 24k White Gold). All those jewelries cleaning took me, less than 20 mins. So it's simple, cheap, and fast!
I would highly recommend from doing one ring first as test and if it works for you, great! Do another jewelries. Feed me back if you tried it and it worked! Also, if you tell someone about this, make sure to credit me (just lil bit). I learn this from one of old, old lady in Hawaii (I think she was around early 90's when I met her). It's her ancient secret trick. j/k. Joke on Ancient Secret Trick, but I did learn from old lady in Hawaii!
Hope all goes well on cleaning the jewelries.
