Basic Concept of Jewelry Care and Maintenance

Buying jewelry is a relaxing, care-free and happy thing to do. When jewelries are bought home, it is also very important in knowing how to treat, maintain and take care of your jewelry.

1. Do not touch regularly 

It may look easy to keep your jewelry clean and shiny when worn, but it is actually the opposite. Many people cannot help but touch the surface of beautiful gemstones, but this will actually affect the shine and brilliance of gemstones. Because people perspire and produce oils, these can often contaminate jewelry. When we use our hands to touch gemstones, the oils on our hands stay on the surface of jewelry, thus affecting the shine and brilliance of gemstones. This is especially important for diamonds, which are lipophilic and hydrophobic. Therefore it is easy for them to be contaminated by oils, thereby affecting its luster.

2. Removing jewelry regularly is caring for jewelry 

We often change or remove our jewelry to suit the people we are with according to different people events, time,and places, but for busy people this probably does not apply. At least remove your jewelry when washing your hands, because some soaps contain alkaline substances, which can eventually be harmful to fragile gemstones. Also, the saponin in soap can easily get stuck in the crevices and cracks of rings, thereby greatly affecting the shine and brilliance of gemstones. In addition, bathing, doing house chores and swimming also easily cause damage to gemstones. 

3. use ultrasonic cleaner with care

Some families today buy their own ultrasonic cleaner to clean their own watches and accessories. Ultrasonic cleaners are great for cleaning gold gem jewelry and gold, and are especially good for cleaning the tarnish and dirt in small cracks and crevices that toothpastes are unable to reach. However, ultrasonic cleaners are not suitable for gemstones with special structures such as emeralds and pearls. If these gemstones is cleaned with ultrasonic cleaners, their structure will be destroyed. So please refrain from doing so. Also, although ultrasonic cleaners have good cleaning effects, it should only be used on occasion. Repeated use can loosen the settings and cause your diamonds to fall off and become detached. 

4. Be careful of acid and alkaline substances

Some substances we make contact with in our daily lives or in the food we eat contain certain degrees of acids or alkali. The different concentration of acid and alkaline chemical substances may damage your gemstones, especially pearls. The use of make-up in our daily lives may also stain jewelry so try to prevent this from happening. 
Please put your jewelry on after you have applied your make-up and perfume to prevent cosmetic products with high chemical concentration or perfume from having direct contact with the surface of jewelry. If you feel the need to put on more perfume, please avoid directly spraying perfume on the surface of jewelry.

5. Note the steps for wearing jewelry 

When putting on prong jewelry or ring with protruding stone, please avoid contact with your clothes and bag to prevent from damage. However, if this happens, it may not necessarily cause the main diamond to fall off, but sometimes an aggressive pull may cause the setting to become deformed. Therefore, this may cause gemstones to fall off easily. It is generally advised to put on your jewelry after dressing. 

6. Examine your jewelry regularly

• 1. Do not use bleach to clean your jewelry, because the chlorine found in bleach will cause holes or cavities on alloys. Chlorine also decomposes alloy, and may even erode soldered joints. Since swimming pools contains chlorine, it is not appropriate to wear jewelry when swimming. This also applies for hot springs, as acid chemical substances will erode and damage jewelry or gold. 
• 2. Do not use abrasive washing detergents and toothpaste to clean your jewelry or diamonds.
• 3. Ultrasonic cleaners prevent accessories from being washed away, and can be used to clean diamond accessories. However, ultrasonic cleaners are not suitable for cleaning colored gems such as pearls and emeralds etc.
• 4. Do not wash with boiling water. Since the physical nature of diamonds is more stable, it can be cleaned with boiling water. But some gemstones such as green gemstones and amethysts are extremely fragile and prone to be affected by drastic change of temperature. Therefore, it is recommended to avoid cleaning with boiling water.