To bring the shine back to tarnished silver jewelry, pour hot water into a mug, add three tablespoons of salt (to make an electrolyte), put in some aluminum tin foil and the tarnished silver jewelry. The tarnish (silver sulfide) will then be liberated and be given off as a gas (rotten eggs smell). Rinse with water to reveal super shiny jewelery.
Source: A jeweler friend.
By Monique from Somerset, UK
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Sounds a lot easier than silver-cleaning paste and elbow grease, thanks for the tip. Thumbs up for you and your jeweler friend!
Be very careful with using salt on sterling jewelry also the baking soda/aluminum foil method, you can pit the sterling with the salt method. With the aluminum foil method you will remove the sterling finish and turn your cherished sterling into a base metal.
I have tried this method and it didn't work on my jewelry. I didn't want to over do it on the ring I was trying to un-tarnish. Thanks for the tip though!
I had no problem with a chain. I only put it in the solution for a few minutes came out nice and clean. Have done this for years on my other with no problems.
Have just tryed hour recommendation and was amazed at results brilliant thank you
Thanks!! I will try that..
It took the dark tarnish off, but now is very dull. Inside is written, "hand wrought 1C sterling", on a thin bracelet cuff.
Just want to say thanks for the cleaning solution advice, My wife got a perm and some of the solution got on her irreplaceable sterling silver chain. I put 3 table spoons of salt, a teaspoon of soda into a mug, half filled with hot tap water, rolled up two pieces of foil submerged them in the water and dropped the chain in, 3-4 minutes checked it and it indeed smelled like rotten eggs, swirled it around a bit, held it up to the light, it looked clean.
How long do you leave in the mug?
This saved my James Avery jewelry and I cannot thank you enough! I used nair not knowing that it would damage my rings and I just about cried!!! Thanks again!
Overjoyed that this saved my Tiffany bracelets after they had Nair on them and they turned black. This process worked like a magic!
My parents were antique dealers and we saw our share of sterling that had been ruined beyond restoration by this method. It strips the sterling from the base metal.
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