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Glittering Stones » How to Care and Clean Diamonds
How to Care and Clean Gemstones
A Gemstone has a smooth polish, sparkling color and beautiful luster. But regular wear may damage the immense beauty of the gemstone. It is important to take proper care of them with adequate storage and cleaning process.
How to Care for a Gemstone
- Examine the type of gemstone. Use soft bristle toothbrush, warm water and mild soap to clean
the gemstones.
- Take gemstones to the jeweler to fix the loose settings,
repair or replace damaged clasps and buff out the shallow
scratches on gemstones.
- Store gemstones carefully in
its original packaging or jewelry box.
- Use non abrasive
silver cloth or soft lint free cloth to polish jewelry and remove tarnishing.
- Don’t expose to harsh chemicals
or perfumes, since it cause discoloration.
- Avoid wearing
gemstones to prevent scratches during heavy duty.
- Don’t
spray beauty products like hair spray, cosmetics or perfume
by wearing gemstones.
How to Clean a Gemstone
- Cleaning is not a big task, but it’s difficult to know what type of cleaning should be provided for that particular gemstone. Certain gems like opals, amber and
pearls are soft and porous. So, they should be wiped with a clean moist cloth.
- Gemstones like turquoise, onyx, lapis
lazuli are opaque gemstones
that absorbs chemicals and cause discoloration in stones. It is not recommended
to use ultrasonic cleaner, ammonia, chemical solution.
- Diamonds, rubies and
sapphires can be cleaned with a touch of ammonia in water. Avoid soaking
porous stones in water.
- Porous stones like pearls, opals and turquoise should
not be soaked in water since they soak up the water. To clean, gently wipe
the porous stones with damp clean cloth.
- Non porous stones can be cleaned
using cleaning pastes. Soft and mild paste should be used to clean the gemstones,
while harsh paste will scratch the gemstones.
- Make a mixture of warm water
and mild soap and then clean the gemstone softly using soft bristle brushes.
- Rinse the gemstone in clean water
- Wipe the stone using lint free cloth.
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