Silver is among the popular choices for making jewelry in the jewelry world since the ancient time. The beauty of silver jewelry is always present in any jewelry piece.
The silver in jewelry is mostly not pure silver. It’s the silver alloy metal for the benefit in jewelry making. Sterling silver is the metal that is referred as silver in this jewelry world. This alloy metal is a mixture of silver (92.5%) with other metal, copper in general for another 7.5%. The mixing of copper into silver metal has increased the alloy property and really for the use in jewelry market.
You can see lots of sterling silver jewelry products available in the jewelry market; sterling silver necklace, earrings, bracelets, brooches, charms, pendants, rings and etc. They are all available for you to pick a piece for yourself, either from the local jewelry shop or an online shop. Make sure that you have ask for information about silver quality, 925 is the key number to confirm about the quality of silver in that sterling silver jewelry pieces.
For any silver jewelry, you can expect the reaction of silver with oxygen even you have keep the piece away inplastic bag and put them in the box again. The reaction between these two things will generate dark spots or tarnish effect to jewelry pieces. But don’t worry about all these spots, you can remove these spots out without any difficult. All you need to do is check your sterling silver piece regularly.
Mark for the piece that has these spots and get ready to remove all these spots. You can easily clean all these spots out with the help of cleaning solution or tarnishing remover reagent. Make sure that the reagent is for sterling silver metal, not for other metal types. With all the cleaning process, you have to finish the cleaning step by polish your sterling silver jewelry before place it back to its box. Keep all the piece in the cool and dry place. You can also put the piece inplastic bag before keep in the box can extend the time for cleaning process. Keep checking on your sterling silver from time to times, for the perfect beauty of your sterling silver jewelry piece.
