Caring for your costume jewellery - Costume Jewellery needs to cared for to keep it in all it's glory, nowadays it can be extremely delicate even more so than some articles of fine precious jewellery as the majority of costume jewellery on the market incorporates the use on stones and crystal which have usually all hand set. Your fashion and costume jewellery needs to be treated with care to avoid damage occurring or the and lose of crystals and stones.
Here is some impartial advice on how to care for your fashion jewellery and costume jewellery to help keep it in good condition. We do not promote this article to be the only way to care for your costume jewellery as each piece of jewellery is unique in it's own form and made from different metals and materials.
Jewellery Care Tips
- Water – water is never good for your costume or fashion jewellery, if you want your jewellery to last than you should avoid it coming into contact with water. Ways to stop this from happening are to remove rings and bracelets before you wash up, take jewellery off before you have a bath, shower or go swimming and when on holiday to remove jewellery before you going into sea.
- The Sun – direct sunlight is not advised and harmful to jewellery, always store jewellery a cool dry pace out of direct sunlight when not being worn. It is recommend you use a jewellery box for storage.
- Perfume and Sprays – be careful when spraying any chemicals around your costume jewellery. Apply any hair sprays, body sprays and perfumes putting on your jewellery, also remove rings and jewellery when using body lotions or sun creams.
- Storage – store each piece of costume jewellery in boxes or an individual packet with anti-tarnish paper, in doing this it will avoid jewellery getting scratched and tangling.
- Cleaning – as costume jewellery can be made from various metal and usually only plated Cleaners are not recommended because they are usually to abrasive and will remove plating, if you do need to clean your costume jewellery occasionally and remove slight tarnishing you can use mild washing up liquid diluted with water and thoroughly dry the jewellery after. Also do not over polish your fashion jewellery as it will also remove the plating but you can use certain specialist clothes to clean the crystals and stones so they keep their sparkle. Be careful not to use cloths with a rough surface or you will scratch the metal, crystal or stones.
- Beware of oxidation which can cause tarnish by jewellery interaction with oxygen, sulphur and other acids.
