Will wiping silver items with lemon oil prevent tarnishing?
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The best way is to not expose it to air and light.
There are some websites like this one that talk about using lemon oil to clean tarnish. naturallybeautiful.life/
I personally would not leave anything on my silver. It always needs to be put away clean, dry, wrapped in the burgundy color felt pouch they came in, and stored in a dark, dry, cool, but not cold location.
My nana swore by that method and I follow it after inheriting it. In doing this, I rarely have to do deep clean polishes.
My cleaning method is this one (the tongs are important so you don't get burned):
I hope you have the same success with this method as I have.
You can use lemon to clean and polish some silver but I do not believe it will keep it from tarnishing.
if your silver has already gotten tarnished, making a paste of cornstarch and water and rubbing it on the silver, leaving it on for a bit, then rubbing it off with a dry terry or cheesecloth.
I'm not sure you want to put anything on it to prevent tarnising - in fact, constant exposure to acids probably would be the opposite of helpful. Washing with warm water after and then rubbing with a cloth like this one (www.amazon.com/
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