Homemade Jewellery Cleaner
I'm getting ready for the year-end holidays and my jewellery is in need of a good clean. Here is an easy way to clean your jewellery using ordinary household ingredients.
11/2016
Baking powder is handy for cleaning so many areas in a home. You can also use baking powder to clean your jewellery when combined with sea salt and aluminium foil. The combination of these three ingredients creates what is known as ion transfer - a chemical process that can be used to clean jewellery.
YOU WILL NEED:
Salt
Baking powder
Aluminium foil
Bowl
Old toothbrush
Hot water
HERE'S HOW:
My jewellery is in desperate need of a good clean. Using baking powder cleans in all those intricately detailed areas.
1. Cover your bowl with aluminium foil and then add a tablespoon of salt and a tablespoon of baking powder. Place the jewellery to be cleaned on top of this.
2. Pour in the hot water and watch the fizz do its work.
Do the cleaning process in a sink to reduce the risk of mess.
3. Once the fizz has completed its cleaning process, pour out the hot water.
4. Now you can use an old toothbrush to gently brush and clean under running water.
The jewellery after a 30-second soak in salt, bicarb, aluminium foil and hot water.
Time to test out this process on some of my other pieces of costume jewellery.
As the fizz starts the colour instantly turns to a dirty colour - proof that the chemical reaction is taking place and removing all the dirt.
