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How To Clean Silver
By Leeanne Utiger
Have you ever wondered how you can clean your silver, and have it glowing in appearance all of the time. Well, if you read further through this article, you will learn just how you can clean your silver and keep this sort of appearance to it while on display.
You will learn on finding out how to clean silver, that you do not always have to use a chemical based product to clean your silver with. There are in fact a few things you can clean your silver with, that you will no doubt already have in your kitchen cupboards.
Now let us learn how we can clean silver without the expensive chemical based products many of us do not always have kept in the household cupboards. If you have small pieces of silver in the house that you want to learn how to clean, this segment is for you. Have you ever considered using a product that every household has, or should have? And a product that actually lives in your bathroom? Yes - in your bathroom! Reach for the whitener/brightener of the house - your toothpaste. Yes, for the small pieces of silver that you want to learn how to clean, simply use the toothpaste that you clean your teeth with. Simply dab a small amount of toothpaste onto your finger tip and rub it on to the piece of silver until it is covered. This will remove any tarnish that has built up on your small pieces of silver. Then simply wipe off with a soft cloth and buff. WOW! Impressive isn't it!
Now if you want to learn how to clean slightly bigger pieces of silver, still without having to use a chemical based product, you can still do so. Reach into your kitchen cupboard or pantry for your baking soda. Mix up a paste using your baking soda and some water. Remember you want a paste, not a dough and not some runny slop. Once you have learned to make the paste to a sufficient consistency, you can scoop some onto a slightly damp soft cloth and rub your silver pieces with it. The baking soda paste with the help of the cloth and rubbing motion will also remove any tarnish that may have built up on these pieces of silver. Now that you have done that, you will also have to rinse the paste off. Do this with hot water. Now that you have rinsed the silver pieces with hot water and removed all of the baking soda paste, you can now polish your silver pieces with a dry soft cloth, bringing the sparkle back to your silver pieces.
You will also learn when you find out how to clean silver that for more stubborn tarnish marks, just simply leave the baking soda paste on your silver pieces overnight and then continue to rinse with hot water and polish. This should also bring the once stubborn tarnished silver back to sparkling life.
However if you feel these methods are not suitable for you, or you would just rather learn how to use a specific cleaning product for cleaning your silver, you can do. Pay a visit to your supermarket or even a hard ware store. You should be able to find a chemical based product specifically for cleaning silver with. I know in some countries you can purchase a product called: Silvo. This is a product specifically produced and sold for cleaning silver pieces. There is not much to learn about how to use these forms of products. Any chemical based product comes with instructions on the back of the packaging, so if you follow their guidelines you will find cleaning your silver pieces a breeze.
In most cases you simply just need the extra help of a cloth or two. If you are using Silvo, or a product just like it, I suggest you place a little amount of this onto one cloth and gently rub the tarnish markings on your silver. This chemical based product will remove the tarnish quite effectively. Then with another cloth, wipe and clean the Silvo or other used product off. You can then with a third cloth polish the silver you have just successfully learned how to clean with a chemical based product.
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