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After a while, silver turns dark - this is not harmful to your health, but it doesn't look nice. With these home remedies your silver will shine again.
Jewelry, cutlery or candlesticks made of silver require a little care so that they shine with a proper shine. Because after a while, real silver oxidizes and turns dark. This is due to the combination of silver with oxygen and hydrogen sulfide. However, with a few home remedies you can quickly get tarnished silver fresh and shiny again.
Clean silver properly: Home remedies help with dirt
Silver tarnishes over time, which is not a health hazard, but does look unsightly. How to make silver shine again with home remedies. (Symbolic image) © Danist/Panthermedia/Imago
There are many different home remedies you can try to clean tarnished silver. For example, you can put some baking soda on a damp, soft toothbrush and brush it over the silver. Alternatively, you can also mix a paste of lemon juice and salt and spread it with a soft toothbrush. After 30 minutes of exposure time, you can rinse off the pastes. It is best to polish the silver with a soft cloth. For heavily tarnished silver that you would like to clean particularly gently,
Ökotest
recommends a bath in different stages:
Lemon juice:
Put the silver in a bowl with lemon juice for half an hour.
Water bath with baking soda:
Then place the item in a water bath with baking soda powder, which should increase the cleaning effect.
Alternatively, you can also use hot potato water as a bath for silver cleaning. If you clean jewelry with gemstones, this method is not recommended as the treatment could damage the surface.
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Cleaning with aluminum foil: Cover the cutlery well
If you use aluminum foil at home, you can try using it to clean tarnished cutlery. To do this, first wrap the cutlery in the foil. Then put it in hot salted water. The
Frag-team-clean.de
portal informs that the water must be at least 60 degrees Celsius. There should be five tablespoons of salt per liter of water. After some time, the black deposit from the cutlery will disappear and be found on the aluminum foil instead. Important: During the procedure, the silver should come into contact with the salt water, so the aluminum foil should not completely enclose the objects.
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Cola or beer as a cleaner for dirty silver?
Cola not only removes limescale and urine scale from the toilet, but also helps with tarnished silver. To do this, put a large sip of cola in a bowl and place the silver jewelry or cutlery in it overnight. The next morning the discoloration should be gone thanks to the acidity. As an alternative to cola, you can also put a large sip of beer in a bowl and use it to carry out the procedure.
Prevent discoloration: Use and storage can make a difference
If you want to prevent discoloration, you should, for example, not clean silver cutlery in the dishwasher and you should also store the cutlery in a low-air environment. For example, you can wrap it in cotton cloths, and a cutlery tray with a velvet coating can also help,
Ökotest
informs . Likewise, copper coins in the jewelry box can prevent discoloration as they tarnish more quickly than silver. However, this requires a large number of coins.