With every order, I include a soaked cleaning cloth that you can use repeatedly on silver and gold. But below are some tips that will help you even if you don't have a napkin handy:
Protect jewelry from chemical influences such as: cosmetics, perfumes, hair dye, spa treatments. Never expose jewelry to chlorine in swimming pools or hot water while bathing. Use jewelry only for the purposes for which it is intended: do not wear it during heavy manual work, cooking, gardening, sports, washing dishes or cleaning. Protect jewelry from impacts and mechanical damage. Clean your jewelry regularly at home using products designed for this purpose. Jewelry has a greater tendency to oxidize when not worn. Therefore, do not leave them lying freely on the shelf or in the box that you received when you bought the jewelry. Zip bags are the ideal place to store unworn jewelry. They seal the jewelry hermetically to prevent air and moisture from getting in, which cause oxidation. Put your jewelry on as the last thing before leaving the house and the first thing to take it off when you arrive.
Under no circumstances should you clean gold-plated and patinated jewelry with cloths or cloths for cleaning silver. The patinated or gilded surface would be damaged by this, but the jewelery would not be cleaned. These cleaning cloths are intended for jewelry with a smooth polished surface, but are completely unsuitable for jewelry with a rough sepia bone structure. For our jewelry, we recommend the Silver Clean cleaning bath, which you can purchase from me. If you have a combination piece of jewelry and some of its parts are silver and some are patinated, soak it in the cleaning solution for only a few seconds so that the patina does not fade. After removing the jewelry from the cleaner, it should be gently washed with soap and clean water.
You can clean gold jewelry with wipes soaked in a cleaning solution or use a cleaning bath. However, gold and rhodium jewelry practically do not oxidize, so they need to be cleaned minimally. If the gold or rhodium-plated jewelry is dirty (deposits of dust and other impurities very often settle in earring closures), wash the jewelry gently in soapy water and dry it. We recommend cleaning jewelery with precious stones, corals and pearls in a special Silver Clean bath for pearl jewellery.
By prior arrangement, you can also stop by my place and I will professionally clean your jewelry.