Due to colored gemstones are usually transparent or translucent, so we need regular cleaning and maintenance. Otherwise, your colored gemstone jewelry may be because of improper maintenance and less beautiful than when you first bought it. Also, when you wear beautiful jewelry, also have a lot of attention.
daily-wear Note:
1. when doing strenuous exercise and heavy work, please do not wear jewels and jewelry. Although used in inlaid jewelry gemstone hardness is high, able to withstand daily wear abrasion under normal circumstances, but most crystals gemstones brittle, along a certain direction when they are hit by the strong crack or collapse occur, so wear with care.
2. don't keep jewelry at random in a drawer or jewelry box. Due to the different hardness of the various colored gems and jewelry, they will friction loss. Similar stones because the directionality of different hardness and wear.
3. regular jewelry worn by the best check on a monthly basis, viewing stones wear and loosening of metal claws-end. If you think claw jewel loose, please stop wearing and sent back to the jeweler to tighten insert claw.
4. some stones are natural cracks and inclusion, or brittle, such as Emerald, worn, you need to be careful to avoid a collision.
5. some stones are afraid to lose water because of the intense heat or wind, such as turquoise, Opal, so to avoid saving when the direct rays of the Sun, to avoid wear using a hair dryer and so on.
6. do not or where there is steam in the kitchen wearing porous stones. Turquoise color when they absorb the steam and sweat, Pearl, coral, too. Sweat, perfume and more gems would constitute damage to the air holes, remember to clean after wearing and storage to save.
7. the pearls are organic gems, sweat, perfume, hair spray and other chemicals are very easy to make Pearl lose its lustre and gradually turn yellow. With clean water after every wear combined with soft, clean cloth, waiting for them to naturally dry and back on the jewelry box. Remember not to wear pearls swimming, bathing or cooking.
8. When you gain weight, ring or bracelet will become too small, and you cannot be removed, you can try to use soaps, hand creams, lubricants. Use the principle of expansion and contraction, your hands can also be submerged in cold water for a period of time to reduce swelling of hands and then take out the ring, saving some. If the ring is too tight and those affecting the blood circulation, to Jewelers for help, they have a tool to cut off the ring and not hurt your fingers. Cutting ring can be welded again.
9. swimming pool water usually contains a lot of chloride, organic gems and jewelry will definitely have a corrosive effect on the metal part, so best not to wear jewellery when swimming.
Cleaning:
1. jewelry cleaner is safe for most of the gem, but also made the metal more bright. But turquoise, Opal, pearls to avoid using jewelry cleaner.
2. mild soap and a soft brush to clean jewelry is very useful. Toothpaste containing silica abrasives, be avoided. Clean stones, Fortress basin drain, or with big bowls of precious stones, avoid jewelry from hands off when the slipping into the sewer.
3. for emeralds, tourmalines and some inclusions, cracked or brittle, low hardness of gems, must not use ultrasonic cleaning to avoid stones damaged or broken.
4. strong acid and strong base is also not suitable cleaning material, although the nature of most gemstones are stable (but there are still a number of stones not exposed to chemical substances), strong acid strong base will affect the luster of the metal part.