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Caring for your Sculpted Jewelry

Some simple tips to ensure your jewelry stays looking like new!
· Always avoid contact with chemicals, such as pool and seawater, hair spray, perfumes, household cleaners.
· Avoid discoloration of your stones and gold by not swimming with your pieces on and by putting your jewelry on AFTER you are finished with your hair, and makeup and AFTER you spritz your perfume. Perfumes and hairsprays especially, can leave permanent spots.
· Don't wear your jewelry to bed or while working out. Exercising, swimming or sweating while wearing your jewelry will cause them to collect sweat and other pollutants and will leave behind a film that will dull the color and shine of your piece. This is why you should clean your jewelry periodically. Wiping your pieces with a soft, damp cloth after wearing will help prevent a lot of this.
· Always store silver jewelry in an airtight location. Such as in a zip lock bag in your jewelry box. When air hits your silver it causes it to tarnish more quickly. The more you wear your silver jewelry the less it will tarnish. Silver scratches easily so always use the softest cloth you can find to polish silver.

Cleaning your new wire Jewelry: Never clean over the sink as you could lose a precious piece. Use a bowl if possible. A simple method is to immerse in warm soapy water (use very mild soaps such as ivory or dove for soft and delicate stones). Scrub gently with a soft bristle toothbrush. Then rinse well and lay on a soft towel to dry. Only use ultrasonic cleaners on hard crystalline stones. If not sure, then avoid using them. They can damage treated, and soft stones.


 Caring for Cameos: To clean cameos gently scrub with a soft bristle toothbrush in warm water. If you must use a cleaning solution use a natural one with no ammonia and just dip it in for only a few seconds and rinse with warm water immediately. After cleaning, you need to moisturize the cameo so that it does not become brittle and chip or break. Use a fine mineral oil and apply with a q-tip. Let this soak on for a few hours. Then wipe off any oil that remains. You should do this at least once a year. (You can do this also with amber and opal to keep it soft)


 Recommended Cleaners:I recommend Jewel Brite Cleaner and tarnish remover. You can order it here in my store. Professional Jewel Brite Jewelry Cleaner & Tarnish Remover is environmentally friendly and kind to your jewelry. Contains no ammonia, acid or alcohols but cleans, shines and polishes. 100% biodegradable. Safe for both fine and costume jewelry. Gently cleans all soft stones (as well as the harder ones) including pearls and opals. Jewel Brite is a professional jewelry cleanser, which contains all natural and biodegradable ingredients. It is made from a special blend of banana and coconut oils. The Tarnish Remover is also biodegradable and safe for metals, silver, gold, brass, bronze, copper, chrome, stainless steel and aluminum.

Caring for pearls:Store in a cool dry place away from sunlight, heat and moisture. It is advisable that pearls be dampened periodically, in lightly salted water. Do not expose your pearls to chemicals, or substances such as dishwashing liquid, or acidic products like vinegar, lemon juice, hairspray or perfume. After wearing your favorite pearls, simply wipe them off with a soft cloth, the cloth can be damp or dry. This will help prevent dirt from building up, as well as stop the accumulation of perspiration, which is slightly acidic and can cause deterioration of the pearl.

For pearls that have not been cleaned for an extended period of time, simply start by washing the pearls in water using VERY mild dish soap such as ivory or Lux. Ensure dish soap is extremely mild as some commercial dish soaps, such as dawn, can actually cause damage to the pearls because of the high level of acidity.

While washing the pearls pay close attention to areas around the drill holes, prongs, etc, as dirt tends to collect here. The simply lay them flat in a moist kitchen towel to dry. Once the towel is dry the pearls are ready to be worn or put away. These few simple caring steps can make a tremendous difference to the life of your pearls and will allow you to pass them down from generation to generation