Silver Earrings

How to clean silver earrings?

There are several ways you can use to clean your silver earrings. Silver tends to tarnish the more it oxidizes. To clean it easily you just need a salt bath. Take a bowl of warm water and add salt to it. Then take your earrings and soak them in the salt solution for 5 – 10 minutes. Brush them gently to clean the earrings thoroughly.

The bath cleanses gently and removes the tarnish without damaging the silver. Once the earrings are clean, rinse them with cold water. Dry the earrings using a soft cloth or microfiber towel. Do remember though the salt bath is gentle on most gemstones, make sure it is not fine jewelry studded with expensive stones. If that is the case, then you must take the earrings to the jeweler to clean it professionally.

Care for silver earrings

Sterling silver earrings are pretty and often work well with any outfit you wear. However, to make sure they are always ready to shine and dazzle, you must take adequate care. Look at the few simple things you can do mentioned below

• Wash your silver earrings under warm water to wash away any dirt collected while you wore them to work. Do not air dry them as they can create sports, rather use a soft cloth to wipe and dry the earrings before you store them.
• Avoid wearing sterling silver earrings in the shower, the swimming pool, hot tub, or hot springs. The chemicals and sulfur present in the springs tend to damage the silver.
• Make sure you apply your moisturizer and perfume before wearing your silver earrings as the chemicals in lotions can tarnish silver easily.
• Store silver in individual airtight containers that keep air exposure out to maintain brilliance and shine intact.

Where to buy sterling silver earrings?

Fine silver earrings are the ones you must buy. Such earrings have .999 silver and are the purest form of silver. Most silver hoop earrings and jewelry in the USA is the standard sterling silver i.e. .925 purity. Most ready to wear pieces have a quality stamp, so make sure you buy the earrings from a reputed jeweler. Vinca specializes in unique sterling silver earrings that symbolize your personality to a T.

Guidelines for buying silver earrings

• Decide on the kind of silver earrings you would like to buy.
• If you plan to wear them regularly, select a simple sterling silver hoop earring or a silver stud earring.
• If you have budget constraints, consider buying interchangeable silver earrings.

Fascinating Facts about Silver

• Silver was first found and separated from lead as early as 3000 BC
• Ancient civilizations often associated silver jewelry with special powers and believed it carried therapeutic powers, prosperity, and warded off malicious spirits.
• In the middle ages, a pound of silver by weight was the currency.
• The Phoenicians kept wine, water, and vinegar in silver bottles to avoid bacterial contamination of liquids.
• Alchemists called silver ‘lunar’, as it was related to the moon, various lunar goddesses and the sea.
• Lore says the Greek Goddess Artemis used a silver chariot to ride through the sky firing silver moonbeams to earth using a silver bow
• Sterling silver was first introduced in the 13th-century in England.
• Around 20 billion ounces of silver is in use as coins, jewelry, religious and artistic objects today.