Than clean silver to shine?

We all know that silver products lose their luster over time, become dull and dark. To return your favorite ornaments to their original beauty, they should be taken care of periodically. Let's look at how you can clean silver at home so it shines.

How to clean table silver?

Many housewives keep cutlery made of silver, bought once or for a long time or even inherited. In everyday life, you probably do not use them, but get it only for big family holidays. And one day you discover that once sparkling silver forks and spoons have become dark or generally black. And this is due to improper care and storage of table silver.

Since silver is a soft metal, it can not be cleaned with abrasive agents and a hard sponge. Do not wash such items in the dishwasher.

Keep the silverware so that each object lies separately and does not touch the neighboring one. You can lay them in layers, shifting each with a clean napkin. The best way is to wrap each item separately in foil or food film. To store table silver should choose a place that is protected from sunlight.

You can clean table silver using various tools: Hagerty solution, Town Talk spray, Silbo foam and others. However, the cost of such professional tools is high enough and not every landlady can buy them.

There are many folk ways of cleaning silverware.

1. An ancient classic way is a mixture of tooth powder and ammonia. At the same time, tooth powder due to exceptionally soft abrasive properties not only cleans silver, but also polishes products. In order to clean, for example, a silver spoon, it is necessary to dip it into water, and then sprinkle with tooth powder and thoroughly wipe with a cloth. Then rinse the spoon under running water and wipe with a soft cloth. If the handle of the device is decorated with patterns, then this place must be cleaned with the same composition with a toothbrush. A more modern way of cleaning silver products is toothpaste and a brush.
2. You can clean table silver with chalk: put a little chalk powder on the cloth and rub the product, then rinse it under a stream of cold water and wipe it dry with a napkin.
3. Wood ash or cigarette ash will also help to cope with the darkening of silverware. To clean, it is necessary to put a little ash or ash on a damp cloth and polish-clean the product, then rinse and wipe dry.

How to clean jewelry from silver?

Since silver jewelry often has a very complex shape, then simply wiping it with a cloth, it will not be possible to clean them. It is better to clean them with liquid solutions.

1. Jewelry from silver can be cleaned with soda. To do this, a liter of warm water should take 50 g of baking soda, immerse the products in a solution and, after standing for a while, take them out. Rinse with clean water and wipe with a soft cloth.
2. Another recipe for cleaning silver jewelry with soda - in a liter of boiling water dissolve one st. spoon of soda. In a container with a solution put a leaf of food foil and dip it for only a few seconds of the product into a solution - and silver shines like a new one.
3. Jewelers recommend another way, following which silver jewelry is well cleaned. To do this, put a small piece of zinc in the glass container, then put the products there and pour hot water in the container with the laundry soda dissolved in it in the proportion of one liter of water - 1 tbsp. a spoonful of soda. Your jewelry will be clean again.
4. An ancient and effective method of cleaning silver - in the water with the cut potatoes put the jewelry and stand for several hours, then rinse and wipe.