| If you have a habit of wearing your costume jewelry | | | | You could clean your copper with ketchup; just use a |
| to the beach, yet want to prevent this same jewelry | | | | cotton cloth, old T-shirt, or paper towel. Rinse in cool |
| from tarnishing, you should rethink that practice. The | | | | water, then dry with paper towel or cotton cloth. |
| sand and salt water are not good for such jewelry, | | | | Use toothpaste to clean your silver plated jewelry. It is |
| therefore brass, copper, gold plated, and silver plated | | | | also a great idea to clean your sterling silver or gold. |
| pieces should be treated with extreme care; especially | | | | Rinse in cool water and dry with cotton cloth. You will |
| if those are favorites. | | | | get a beautiful shine on your jewelry. |
| Do not spray cologne, perfume, and/or lotion onto your | | | | Whenever I run out of jewelry cleaner, I sometimes |
| costume jewelry when worn, as that can result in | | | | use this procedure which works well for me. |
| tarnishing. A helpful suggestion would be to put your | | | | Do not use this technique with jewelry containing semi |
| cologne, perfume, or lotion on areas which will not be in | | | | precious stones such as turquoise, pearls, coral, fluorite, |
| direct contact with your jewelry. | | | | moonstone, malachite, obsidian, blue lace agate, moss |
| Do not wear your jewelry when you plan to clean | | | | agate, hematite, pyrite, abalone, and amber because |
| your house with harsh chemicals. | | | | the hardness on these stones is below seven. Most |
| Whenever your brass or gold plate jewelry tarnishes, | | | | gem stones have a hardness which identifies the |
| you could clean it with lemon juice mixed with a little | | | | strength of the gems. |
| cool water in a small bowl or container for a few | | | | I like to experiment with different ways on how to |
| minutes. Once your jewelry is cleaned, you should rinse | | | | clean jewelry and share it with jewelry designers and |
| it out in cool water, then dry it with a paper towel or | | | | customers. |
| cotton cloth. | | | | |