MY PIECES WERE DARK AND DIRTYTHIS SOLUTION DID AN AMAZING J0B. I have tried so many different thingsfor cleaning silver, some work but are a lot of work and messy. I didnt think it would work, but it did perfectly! John. I went online and found your tip and it worked like a charm. Then, add the salt and baking soda to the bottom of the bowl. Depends on the turquoise. in products you touch or apply. It cleaned it excellent! Try with the white pasty toothpaste and toothbrush. But I also have pearls and sterling silver together. This worked like a champ!! Thank you Melissa ! No, this solution is NOT safe for Pandora charms/bracelets. choker tiffany I had a coffee/tea set to clean and it was too easy. We all make mistakes, and we are all still magnificent.

Home page how to clean real silver utensils. Thank you for sharing this with everyone. If it has been color treated, you should only use a polishing cloth on your silver and use nothing harsher than baking soda on the stones. THANK YOU SO MUCH. Everything Gerri says is true. [CleanMySpace] []. Instantly had ingredients at home and in 10 minutes had a clean locket I havent touched in 20 years! Maybe not relevant to your question but all of the commercial cleaners specifically state that their products not be used on brass. Visit your local fine jewelry store for their in-house cleaning products such as dips, pastes or polish creams that you can use at home. Great tip! One piece, a Christmas star, looked perfectly fine, until I lifted it out of its storage slot and saw the other side was cratered like the moon, and that gel gunk coated the foam slot. Never tarnishes. This worked out so well. can i use something in place of the viniger?? actually the correct description of white gold is that it is yellow gold mixed with white metals rather than copper and brass more like nickel but you are right about the rhodium plating all white gold after the metals are mixed and the piece is ready they rhodium plate it to give it that shine.

I do not want to ruin these, so not trying baking soda solution because of warnings. Dipped tine end of fork in and touched the foil,. I was shocked, so I decided to just get one cleaned. Thanks for the tip Andrea. [] Download Plan More @ cleanmyspace.com [], [] DIY at home silver jewelry cleaner. I went to Tiffanys today to get my (5) silver pieces cleaned. When using the foil you lose a bit of silver along with the tarnish. Ive had a very large, beautifully ornate Mexican tin framed mirror for about 30 years. For Use on sterling silver, silver plate, platinum, copper, gold, diamonds wipe rinse done Ultrasonic Jewelry Cleaner 48KHz, 650ml Professional Ultrasonic Cleaner Machine with Timer for Jewelry, Eyeglasses, Watch, Denture Cleaning, Low Noise Small Ultrasonic Cleaning Machine. This will save me so much time Im so excited thank you! You are my object of adoration tonight. The exact opposite of what you are trying to accomplish. Platinum is not white gold. I just used this to polish my pandora bracelets after they were tarnished from swimming in a chlorine pool. A lot of white gold is rhodium plated because it usually has a yellow tinge to it & the demand is for something to be really white, that is why most white gold is rhodium plated. I cut some patterns in the foam to fit some silver and copper items and then store the items in the foam cutouts Id made. What if its rhodolite over silver. Turquoise is a soft stone. Scrub it lightly to avoid the scratches.

ONE YEAR LATER Marian Scheerer. Just did mine and worked just perfect!!! I think its great! Will this harm the gold? Hello Melissa. how can I go about cleaning it? Thanks Melissa. Welcome To The Cleanest Place On the Internet! I have had good results on rings and large rope chains as well. I tried your remedy and I can say they are restored to beautiful silver, thank you very much. But opting out of some of these cookies may affect your browsing experience. Sponges & Cloths: Watch What You Wipe With! Grace you are correct. There are liquids for dipping, but my mom (yay, Mom!) So what? I had that happen with the purple packaged Super Clean in the auto section at walmrt, and ended up with hypothalamus damage. Most stores will do this for free! Can I use this on diamonds with platinum and also diamonds with white gold, What is the best way to clean white gold ring with diamonds. I had a certificate holder and the results shocked me. Thanks Melissa. The biggest mistake people make is cleaning coins. Check your local supermarkets. It still stayed black. Nothing seemed unusual w/r the foam: no odd smells, off-colors, contaminants like grease, etc. I have lots of Tiffani silvers and since they started charging for polishing, I sort of stop getting them cleaned. Do you recommend I do the same procedure to clean a large silver casserole? I line it with foil, add a cup of salt, a cup of soda, and a few inches very hot water to dissolve the salt and soda. I just tried this on a silver ice bucket that I have.an art deco piece from England.It was completely black. Your too acidic. I was not going to pay $100 for cleaning jewelry! btw, the gems in it are perfectly fine. 6) bowl (I used a soup bowl but you can use a larger bowl or even a bucket depending on how much silver you have). thanks! I look forward to more helpful hints. It was and is a restricted herbicide which would require a chemical license to purchase or use, per the EPA. it was amazing. R Toothpaste and a toothbrush can leave fine scratches on sterling. I recently came across mine and was slightly saddened to see how tarnished it had become after a few months out of circulation. What does the formula break down to with 10 courts total? it is like getting new jewelry! As you know, since the end of World War II, tinfoil is no longer made. Let me try this out today! I dont eat anything salty or add lemon to my water for a day or two and I go back to normal. Thank you so much! hoops I wanted it to be a home made solution and you did that in spades.

Still, can I clean my silver spoons/forks together with my jewelry or should I clean them separately? Brilliant! Chantelle from Cape Town, South Africa. The easiest way to incorporate cleaning into your routine is to use the soft cloth when you take off your jewelry at night or prior to showering. Very good well thought out step by step video. hi ive used this mixture and it works perfectly ive also used the toothpaste and brush before and that does work but for some reason not as well as the mix mentioned above so thank you^^. To the writer above, we know these are all chemicals. I ruin watches that way too. Many years ago, everyone jumped on the fad to clean their sterling silver pieces with a similiar method using Tin Foil, Spic-n-Span, and hot water. Back in the 80s there was Silver Lightning.. A guy was doing the But wait! They are tarnished so bad. Ill try this on silver cutlery. So clean and shiny!! While at-home treatments are great, Tiffany & Co. do providecomplimentary cleaning services. Hope you have an awful good filter cause fluoride much less other chemicals theyre putting in the water are extremely hard to filter out. I must caution you, it stinks, smells like boiled eggs or an ex girlfriend or boyfriend, WARNING Pat dry with a polish cloth. You can de-value them by half. Id lIke to do villeroy and Boch candlesticks and 3 tier high tea setting. We had a good laugh & I learned a good lesson, from that day forward I never put an ink pen behind my ear! Add the boiling water to your bowl and then gently drop each piece of silver in the bowl. When you pass on, they will continue to love your pieces. Here in Canada aluminum foil is often referred to as tin foil so, theres really no reason to be a dick about it. It said that vinegar is not good for treating silver. I cannot give this my good silver cleaner seal of approval..it does clean but only after the buffing part.which is the part I hate..especially if you have a necklace with those silver balls on it. Than you again!!! Really works well!!! DOES IT HAVE TO BE TINFOIL, OR WILL ALUMINUM FOIL DO? Just dont use it on pearls or opals or any other soft stones. Dont want to ruin my expensive jewelry. This is so chock full of useful information. Lol. It was primarily linked to a number of cancers in our veterans and birth defects in the Vietnamese. Thanks for the tip!! You have entered an incorrect email address!

It was amazing, I felt really accomplished. Dont soak it in anything, it will ruin the plating. My question as well, did you get a reply? Two days later the same LO came back in my office and sat down across from me, after talking about a loan for a few minutes he got up and walked behind me to look at the spot and said Ah hah! I have a silver plated pewter teapot, could this hack work?

Thanks Melissa! Good for the environment and your wallet as youll find pieces in excellent condition at a fraction of the price. I have tried them all. Its great to get the gunk out of your stones, do not use for opals and pearls though. Thank you! I was out of baking soda so substituted baking powder and it worked also:).

Also can I use table salt. Simple and effective! Didnt work as quickly for the other jewellery but still very impressed , really effective,.i tried it. Soda vs. pop, rubberband vs. gumband, etc. Due to this silver gets dirty and tarnish. It works ALMOST every time. This cleaned my Tiffany necklace so well! Silver only! Thank You Thank You . PleasE give me the amounts of soda,salt.Thank you, Hi Melissa, please let me know whether you have a solution for cleaning stainless steal cutlery that have become dark, mainly the spoons. do you mean the white salt that is iodized, or that like i use for pickling, meaning white salt without iodine in it? [] https://cleanmyspace.com/the-besk-kept-silver-cleaning-secret-ever/ []. Crossing fingers. So happy I can save $25 by doing it myself. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. Is it safe for a ring with gemstones in it?

I have a lot of silver that I have to clean. Entertaining but unnecessary. -I also grew up with it being called tinfoil. Have just ruined sterling silver earrings by dipping them into commercial silver cleaning product along with other pieces. Contact with phosphates will also turn silver yellow or even brown. Voila!! Tarnx: tarnish remover since 1967. And I think you are charming hot gorgeous girl, Very easy, but I d like to clean a silver teapot. I though i was going to have to take it into the store to get it polished but this actually worked. Shop products from small business brands sold in Amazons store. Ive always used just toothpaste and toothbrush (old one of course) . Thanks. I used this method, works awesome! Thank you for that tip to clean my sterling silver jewelry. Your tip is wonderfulI lost my favorite charm down a bathroom drain and by the time I found it and got the charm out it was so badly tarnished and ruined. Its a great recipe but you have to do the rubbing. Silver plate came off the bits that touched the foil. Ive got a sliver tea set and large plates of silver from my grrat great grandmother. Add the vinegar slowly (prepare for the fizz) and mix everything together to dissolve the salt and baking soda. Can aluminium foil be used? It will work but it removes the silver plate and can ruin your piece. Tis a shame I cant use this method on my old flute. No way am I hand polishing a 70 piece set, and some buyers may be sensitive to chemicals. And oh! You may want to take it to be professionally cleaned or try a silver cleaner. I kind of chuckle/snort/cry when I see silver polishing products. ???????? I even using apple cider vinegar because thats what I had in the house. Rub on the silver piece then wash the piece of silver in cold water. I just did it.

Thank you for the information. always told me not to use them. I panicked. The others seemed to tarnish my jewelry worse each time. I will use this remedy the next time I need to clean my necklaces. I cleaned a Tiffany necklace that had tarnished and it looks great now. Now I know better.

I personally know veterans that have died of the effects, of the cancers that filled and ravaged their bodies. Love it. Thank you for this! I looked everywhere and couldnt not find tin foil. Thank you again, keeping this and sharing!! OMG I just tried this on a vintage sterling ring and earrings that were very tarnished and voilagood as new! The internet and social media is an industry of misinformation educate yourself with objective, qualified sources, then keep researching the subject for disagreements or warnings. Is this a true comment?? I even kept them from touching the stainless while in the dishwasher, and it still removed the dark etching details and almost make them look like platinum instead of silver. I clean my silver jewelry by boiling 1 cup of water with some glyceryn soap, just add some grated soap or little pieces of it, as soon as it bols, turn the heat off, mix it well to dissolve the soap and add the silver jewelry in the water mixture. What should I do ??? Thank you Melissa! Unfortunately I received an inoculation with a fresh batch in 1972 while working at KUMED, within six months my life was never the same. Can that way be use on gemstones? Good job. Most of these suggestions are however very old recipes that people used before chemistry was a big business. Wow! I was shocked & embarrassed and no clue as to why. How long is it supposed to sit in the bowl? This is a great recipe.

Thank you! He reached over and pulled my Blue Pentel Liquid ink pen I had behind my ear! Thank you so much. Im not sure weather it was less effective, but it surely did work! Im glad ChemGrad brought up the point that salt, vinegar, baking soda are all chemicals and are all natural. I have been using this method for yrs.

Thank you very much. Thank you! If you have charms or stones, you can try massaging good old ketchup onto the silver and rinsing it cleanI dont think this mixture is OK for enamelled charms (although I did it on mine I was willing to take the risk). If something has crazy heavy tarnish thats been building up since 1933, its going to have to be polished. Does this last? I havent tired this one yet but I will let you know after I once apply your method. Not a good ides..

Has anyone tried an aluminum foil baking dish-the disposable ones, instead of lining a bowl with aluminum foil? It worked amazingly on my precious punk-spiked earring and piercing studs. Leave for a few minutes until the tarnish falls off, then rinse in clean water. Im a cleanophobeI like cleanliness or I feel mixed up. Standard Process prescribed by a clinician trained in their use, is high quality, very low dose replacement therapy and acute response therapy as well as maintenance therapy. Would that work with my diamond while gold ring? Its a chemical reaction between the foil and soda. I was wondering if this will ruin freshwater pearls or not. And what happened? Cannot thank you enough ????????????

Nice idea, bad move on my part.

Always change the foil and water with each batch. You want all the granules to dissolve so that they dont scratch your pieces (always thinking). Products we can use at home and even ingest, we take for granted as safe, but anything that will separate oxidized metal from unoxidized metal, needs to be handled with care. I made the recipe leaving out the vinegar after reading a few posts about plated silver. Many thanks. Try it! Wanted to wear them but did not have any silver cleaner. My boyfriend gave me this beautiful silver ring and the tarnish on it was starting to worry me! I just used this remedy today and it worked awesome!!! Hope you give this a try! To level up your cleaner game, read on for more information on professional at-home cleaners. Just remember to stress you use the word tinfoil, as it just sounds better and you couldnt choose between the American aluminum and the otherwise used variation aluminium.