Cleaning jewelery

I often hear that  to clean out your jewelery is to send it to the jewelerer and let he or she clean it for you. But how if the jewelery is not made of silver and gold? And how if it's not an expensive jewelery, you just particularly in love with it?

The thing is, there is no metal, except perhaps stainless steel and pure 24k gold, that will not change color sooner or later. In fact, the reason I owned a jewelery polisher is because of my platinum necklace. It's a good necklace made of high degree of platinum, but it is also older than me. And after 20 something years, I noticed that some of the link has blacken. 

I considered cleaning it in the jewelerer, but at the same time, I also have a nice metal necklace, Japan made, hypo-allergenic somehow, that had became blackish instead of it's original rose gold color. And unlike the platinum one, I am not sure gold store will want to clean this necklace or that the cost of cleaning it even worth it. So I bought jewelery cleaner, and never regret it since. 

A lot of gemstones are actually fragiles, so cleaning them with ultrasonic machine is out of the questions. But most of them can be clean at home with warm water and mild dish soap, and dried off with soft cloth or tissues. If you do this, take extra care when you are cleaning pearls, because they are easily scratched. 

If the jewelery is knotted with silk thread, the thread has to be totally dry first before the jewelery was worn again. 

For cleaning off metal part, polishing clothes can be easily gain and the prices are quite reasonable as well. There are polishing clothes for silvers, golds, etc. 

Simple, but totally work =)