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Cleaning and maintenance of antique silverware

Cleaning and maintenance of antique silverware

How to clean silver soda and salt
This is one of the most readily available means for cleaning silver. To clean silver soda, pour into the metal, but in any case not aluminum, mug or cup two glasses of water, dissolve it in 2 tablespoons of baking soda. Stir the solution and put on fire. When the solution boils, drop him a piece of food foil and then a product that needs to be cleaned. Count the ten seconds, then remove the silver from solution. Rinse the jewelry in cold water and wipe dry.
Remember to rub powder soda silver in any case impossible. Soda – is abrasive, so dark patina you manage to clean, but you damage and scratch the product.
Cutlery without a lot of patterns can be used just such a method of cleaning. Pour into a dish of soda, moisten it with water to form a paste. Dip the cloth in this composition and gently wipe the product, cleansing it of the black deposit. Then rinse the dishes in warm water.
Also silver can be cleaned with salt. Make a solution of a teaspoon of salt and a cup of water incomplete. If you decide to try to clean their silver salt, do it for this brine. Soak it in silver jewelry for a few hours, then boil products in the same solution for 20 minutes, drain and rinse in cold water decoration.