Care & Maintenance
Caring for your Solvar Jewellery
To keep your jewellery looking its best we recommend you; Remove your jewellery when you shower, bathe, exercise or go swimming. Avoid contact with perfume, hairspray, deodorant, fake tan and hand sanitizer when wearing jewellery. Keep your pieces away from extreme temperatures & sunlight.
Cleaning
Sterling Silver will naturally tarnish over time, use a dry microfibre cloth to keep your jewellery looking shiny and tarnish free.
Storing
To protect your jewellery keep it stored separately in boxes or tissue paper. Avoid storing together as this can cause scratches, chips, and knotting.
Diamonds
Diamonds should be cleaned regularly to maintain their brilliance. Use a soft brush, mild detergent, and warm water. Rinse well with clean water and leave to dry naturally.
Gold Jewellery
Gold is a "noble metal" - which means it will not tarnish, corrode or rust and most acids will not harm it - except in the most unusual of situations. (Sometimes perfumes and perspiration can discolour the other metals gold is mixed with). It is a wonderful metal to work - it can be drawn into fine wire, flattened or bent into shape. It can be highly reflective or matt finished making it an ideal metal to create exquisite, beautiful and fine jewellery. Pure Gold is 24 carats, yellow in colour and very soft so is mixed with other metals to give it strength and make is suitable for making jewellery.
White gold is very popular and is created by mixing gold with other metals and then enhanced by rhodium plating, which gives a hard, white and highly reflective finish. The rhodium plating on white gold will eventually wear and it is advised that these items are periodically re-rhodium plated.
Sterling Silver Jewellery
Silver is a relatively light metal making it practical to use and comfortable to wear. Silver is the most reflective of all metals. Silver is an ideal metal to produce exquisite and stunningly beautiful jewellery.
Silver fineness is expressed as parts per thousand and is normally alloyed with copper to make it stronger and harder. The sterling silver standard has a minimum millesimal fineness of 925. This means that Sterling Silver is made up of 92.5% Silver and 7.5% other metals.
Silver naturally tarnishes due to sulphur dioxide in the atmosphere reacting with the surface of the metal. This can be easily cleaned with a liquid cleaner or cloth available from jewellery stores.