If you don’t take good care of your jade jewelry, even the best artifact will be ruined!

Jewelry is beautiful but also delicate. Even hard jewelry like diamonds and jade will gradually lose their luster if not properly maintained. Especially some popular maintenance tools and very common maintenance methods, if used improperly, not only will it be useless to the jewelry, but it may also cause damage~

Be careful with these maintenance tools

1. Silver washing water

Many gold and silver jewelry can usually be restored to their good-looking new state by wiping with a silver-polishing cloth , but necklaces, rings, or designs with tiny hollow filigree inlays will need to be treated with silver cleaning water or silver cleaning lotion .

Silver cleaning water can remove the oxidized and blackened areas.

However, it should be noted that some delicate gold and silver jewelry may be melted if soaked for too long , and if the residual silver cleaning water is not cleaned out, it may damage the skin when worn later.

Also, these solvents are basically corrosive . If there is jade inlaid on it, it will be easily damaged by washing.

2. Agate knife

The agate knife is an ancient method of polishing gold and silver, which has been used to this day. It uses the fact that the hardness of agate is much higher than that of gold and silver . When pressing and scraping gold and silver , the gold and silver can be compacted without causing loss . At the same time, it can create a good mirror effect and enhance the polishing effect . It is said that scraping can solve the blackening of gold and silver, pressing can smooth out all scratches, and polishing can make gold and silver shine as new!

But for carved gold and silver jewelry, it is easy to grind it flat using an agate knife. Moreover, there are many types of gold and silver now, and their hardness varies greatly. For example, 14k gold with a higher hardness cannot be scratched by an agate knife, while 18k gold is too easy to be scratched.

At the same time, the use of agate knives requires skills . If you don't master it well, it will easily cause bigger scratches and damage.

3. Ultrasound

As a product of science and technology, ultrasonic cleaning machines are very popular now . They not only have a good cleaning effect, but also can clean grease and stains in small gaps .

However, ultrasound also has its disadvantages. Firstly , many jewellery nowadays are inlaid. Some jewellery with densely inlaid, micro-inlaid with small diamonds or broken diamonds cannot withstand the repeated vibrations of ultrasound and may easily become loose or even fall off.

Then there are some gemstones with special internal structures and insufficient toughness , such as jade, pearls, lapis lazuli, etc. Once there are dark cracks and dark lines inside, they are likely to break during ultrasonic cleaning.

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