Simple Ways to Clean Your Gold Jewelry

As I mentioned in the previous post, there are different household cleaners that can be used to clean your gold jewelry.

Liquid dish detergent is probably one of the easiest products to use. You can combine the dish detergent with warm water and soak your gold jewelry for a couple of minutes before you start to scrub the dirt away, then you can use either a cloth rag or a toothbrush to clean your gold jewelry. However, do not use anything too abrasive when cleaning. Soft cloths and soft-bristle toothbrushes are good choices; but something else may leave scratches on the gold jewelry.

Also, you can use seltzer water or club soda as the carbonation in those liquids can loosen up more of the dirt on the jewelry.

There are still other ways to clean your gold jewelry. For example, you can mix one part ammonia to six parts water and soak your jewelry for no longer than a minute before using a soft cloth to polish it.
Toothpaste also works to clean your gold jewelry, but you need to make sure that you get all of the toothpaste out of the crevices before you finish cleaning.

If you have an exceptionally dirty piece of jewelry you can even boil it in water. All of the dirt or grease should rise to the top of the boiling container. If you're concerned about damaging your jewelry while you are boiling it you can use a colander to keep the piece off the bottom of the pan, just make sure that it is
completely submerged to actually get it clean.