You can buy commercial cleaning products to clean your white gold jewellery, but a gentler at-home method would be to mix mild soap and water. Let the rings soak and then wipe gently with a soft cloth to remove dirt.
A: Yes, cleaning jewelry with baking soda and vinegar is pretty simple. Mix 1/2 cup vinegar and two tablespoons of baking soda in a small bowl. Allow your jewelry to soak in the white vinegar and baking soda solution for a few hours.
Remove any white gold jewellery before you carry out dirty or hands-on tasks. Don't swim while wearing white gold as the chemicals in the water (chlorine) can react with the plating. Remove white gold items when bathing and sleeping. Keep your white gold away from other metals.
(Nearly all gold jewelry is alloyed, because pure gold is too soft on its own.) One study showed that when a 14K white gold ring was placed in common household bleach for 36 hours, the ring completely disintegrated! Small amounts of chlorine exist in tap water, too.
The short answer is no. Toothpaste is not a good option for cleaning your ring. Toothpaste contains scrubbing particles to polish your teeth, but these particles are often harder than the metals in your ring, especially gold or white gold. Using toothpaste on your jewelry could cause scratches or pitting in the metal.
Baking soda is an excellent DIY cleaner perfect for cleaning precious metals like gold, silver, and gold-plated and silver-plated jewelry. You can even use it on costume jewelry to keep your jewelry pieces shiny.
While they won't damage your diamond, they can damage your gold. Windex won't hurt your ring, but it isn't a great cleaner either. So stick to mild soap and water, and six-month cleanings and check-ups at your jeweler.
Does Coke Clean Gold? This is a handy and maybe unexpected tip, but Coke does indeed clean gold. You can dip your gold in a small bowl of Coke and make sure that it is completely covered. Leave the gold plated jewelry in the solution for 10 minutes and then rub with a soft cloth and rinse.
White gold is made from mixing pure yellow with white metals — silver, platinum, and palladium. Over time, it simply reverts to its original state. Everyday wear combined with exposure to sweat and chemicals (perfumes) makes its protective rhodium plating wear off.
When you see a yellowish tint in your white gold jewelry, it's not because of poor quality. Instead, you see the inner layer of gold alloy under the rhodium plating. Because rhodium is applied in such a thin layer, usually only a few microns thick, it can wear off over time.
How Do I Fix It? Since the “yellowing” is just the rhodium plating wearing away, the simple way to fix it is to get the rhodium replaced. Take your white gold to the store you purchased it, and they will place a thin coat of rhodium over the gold, returning it to the shiny white color you had originally.
When you see a yellow sheen on your white gold jewelry, it is not the result of oxidation or another chemical reaction, meaning the metal does not actually change color. The outer layer of rhodium slowly wears away over time, eventually revealing the creamy-yellow color of un-plated white gold.
Over time the rhodium will wear, and your white gold jewelry will need to be re-plated. Wearing rings every day - Your rings may need to be rhodium plated once every six months to once a year. Wearing rings for special occasions - Your ring may need to rhodium plated every 2-3 years.
Gold jewelry can be cleaned with dish soap, ammonia glass cleaner, or even just hot water. As with silver, you can give it a good scrub when necessary, but be sure to use a soft toothbrush or other small brush designed specifically for jewelry.
Mix a small amount of toothpaste with 1 to 2 tablespoons of water. Apply the diluted paste to your gold jewelry. Then, gently scrub for 1 minute using a soft-bristled toothbrush in circular motions. Thoroughly rinse under tap water to ensure no residue.
This is actually false. Toothpaste can damage your diamonds, gemstones, gold and silver. Toothpaste is abrasive and has a hardness of around 3/4 on the Mohs Scale of Hardness. Metals such as gold and silver are softer, so toothpaste can actually scratch damage your gold and silver jewellery.
How to Clean a Diamond Ring: All Metal Types (Platinum, Silver, White Gold, and Gold) Soap and Water. The best way to clean a diamond ring, no matter what your ring's setting and/or metal type, is plain soap and water.
Submerging in Vinegar
Vinegar is another popular at-home solution for cleaning. But like lemon juice, vinegar is very acidic and will cause damage to your soft stones and plated jewelry. Soaking your jewelry in a bowl of vinegar will remove the jewelry's shine and finish.
Silver/Gold
You can use a combination of 50% windex (yes, the window cleaner) mixed with 50% hydrogen peroxide. Put the mix in a small glass bowl (not metal or plastic) and soak your ring for about 15 minutes. The combination of products will remove oily buildup and - bonus - will kill any bacteria on the ring.
DON'T Wear Your Ring in Salt Water
That's because salt in the ocean is extremely corrosive to metals like copper, gold and rose gold.
How much damage does salt water cause to your jewellery? It's not just chlorine that can damage your gold jewellery and diamonds; saltwater can damage them too. Salt causes erosion of soldered gold, silver or platinum elements. As a result, the precious metal may weaken meaning your jewellery could potentially break.
Elements such as sulphur and chlorine react with the other metals in the gold jewelry, causing it to corrode and turn black, thus blackening the skin underneath.