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This is a video demonstration on how you can clean your jewellery at home. This will let you clean most of the dirt and grime off your diamonds, sapphires, rubies and gemstones along with giving your gold and silver jewellery a freshen up. This video was filmed at the Maree Pigdon Sewing Centre at the first of the Girls, Pearls and Diamonds event held on the 14th November 2009.
So if I'm at home and I just want to clean my jewellery all I've done is I've boiled the kettle, I've actually put it into a bowl, so for this demo I'm not gonna do that; what I'll do is I'll boil the kettle, I'll let it sit for about 5 minutes so it's not boiling hot. All I'm gonna do for this right now is just turn the hot water on.
Ah, the other one, we only have cold water.
This will still work. So it's just a bit of water. We'll want some cloudy ammonia and all I'm gonna use a cap full of cloudy ammonia; so it's literally just, pour that in, a little bit of a squirt of dishwashing liquid, an old toothbrush, I'll give it a little bit of a stir just to mix it all up. And if I'm using hot water and I've got diamonds or gemstones, I just dip it in once or twice just to bring it all up to heat so it's not a shock to the gemstone which can actually crack your stone; so you've got to be very careful. And a word of warning here, do not do this for anything that's green; green stones do not like heat. So if you've got something green do not put this in. You've got...
Can't you just put it in cold water then?
Yeah, you can put that in cold water, yeah. If you've got pearls as well, or something like lapis, or something like turquoise, don't use the ammonia; just do the water and the dishwashing liquid and an old toothbrush and you'll be good. The reason you don't use the ammonia is cause they're porous stones, same with cameos; so if you've got cameos, or anything shell based, or something like that, don't use the ammonia.
But for this example, we've just got Jacqueline's ring and all I'm doing is I'm just brushing the tops of the diamonds, and just getting the bristles of the toothbrush in underneath through the back there. So all that is doing, the ammonia cuts the grease and all the gunk away, the dishwashing liquid helps to do that a little bit as well, and what we're doing we're just taking off all the sweat, any dead skin; yeah this might sound a bit gross but you know it's just all the dead skin, it's all the hand cream, any sweat, whatever it is that's got hooked up underneath there. And we're just brushing that all away, try and get the bristles in as much as you can underneath, it helps just to sort of, what you call bash that in there, just give it a little bit of a spin.
If you're cleaning silver jewellery can you use the same...
Yeah.
I know sometimes when I clean it it goes a really weird browny, or just odd colours when I use some of the jewellery cleaners.
Yeah, yeah, that's just when it gets all the residue, so what you can do is you can use that stuff and then do this.
Okay.
And that will get rid of the residue and keep it nice and clean. But with silver jewellery if you're doing this it won't take away any tarnish.
Yeah.
It will just take away the grease and it will just make it a little bit shinier; it won't take any scratches out obviously and things like that.
So that's pretty much all I do; give it a nice rinse and then just give it a wipe and away we go. So I don't know if you can see any difference in that; here we go.
Oh it's blinding, blinding.
Yes, it's very shiny; thank you.
Anyone else have another ring that I could do? I'll have that.
This one?
Yeah. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna put this ring through the same process. So do the same thing, just give it a little bit of a wash, just with the toothbrush getting behind the stone which is where most of the stuff that's dying your gemstones and diamonds lives. So give the top of the gemstones or diamonds a little bit of a brush as well, it just cuts any stuff off them. Okay, so you can see that that's a lot cleaner, it's got a lot more life into it.
Yeah.
Here you go. So that's a quick little demo that you guys can do at home if you want to clean some jewellery. Just remember the word of warning, nothing green goes in anything hot; and the other thing is anything porous, pearls, cameos, lapis, turquoise, anything along those lines, do not use ammonia with it, you will destroy your pieces of jewellery. That's it; thank you.
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