Jewelry made of silver, look very elegant and exquisite. But alas, are prone to contamination, darkening and corrosion. Chains that have frequent and prolonged contact with the skin, and consequently are prone to sweat and dust, are more oxidized than other jewelry.
On silver, in contact with sulfur, a sulfide deposit of black color is formed. Sulfur is perhaps the most dangerous substance for silver. And now ask yourself the question, do you always, when swimming in the sea, take off your jewelry? Of course, you do not want to lose your favorite piece of jewelry. Because it is important to know, to clean silver properly.
Cleaning the silver chain
Cleaning of the silver chain can be made both by handy household tools, and special factory tools for cleaning silver. In any hardware store, you can purchase a special tool for cleaning table silver. In the jewelry shops there are many special napkins, solutions. Any jewelry expert or sales assistant will tell you how to clean the chain, the silver of which has lost its former brilliance.
But it is also possible to resort to proven, old kind people's ways. Any grandmother knows how to clean a blackened silver chain with a pendant - for half a glass of water, dilute 25 g of citric acid, put a silver chain in the solution and boil for 5 minutes. Your product will get the perfect white color. Another popular method for cleaning silver jewelry, tested for years - to dilute ammonia with water, in a ratio of 1:10, dipped the napkin and wipe the chain.
To avoid darkening of silver, it is not bad to observe simple rules of storage. After taking off the chain, wash it well and dry it with a piece of flannel cloth.
By the way, if you quickly darken silverware, this is an occasion to consult a doctor. After all, silver jewelry immediately reacts, if the body has increased the sulfur content.