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How To Cheaply Clean Your Yellow Gold Rings

You can clean your yellow gold jewelry to remove any tarnish and bring back its shine with this rather inexpensive process. Most jewelry cleaners available today are couple small containers that are priced typically between $5 and $10. A large gallon container of commercial degreaser (typically a purple color) that can be found at any wal-mart or target or even almost any automotive parts supply store will work just as well if not better than the stuff in tiny super expensive jewelry cleaner jar. The large gallon jug of industrial degreaser typically costs roughly $10 for roughly 20 times the amount of cleaner that's in the smaller jewelry cleaner containers. Obviously the commercial degreaser is the first thing you should get.

After getting it just follow the instructions below to clean your gold jewelry:

1. Put on a set of latex gloves, especially if you have sensitive skin. Pour a small amount of the degreaser into a dish sized plastic container. Fill it approximately 1/3 full, or just enough to cover the jewelry items.

2. Place your jewelry items (even diamonds) in the bowl with the degreasing agent.

3. Agitate the jewelry items around in the bowl. By now you should see the degreaser becoming a little cloudy and dirt and dead skin cells begin to fall off from your jewelry.

4. Continue to Swirl the jewelry in the cleaner for between 1 to 2 minutes and then take them out of the bowl. It's very important to make sure that you don't swirl so much that the degreaser gets out, and that you don't leave your jewelry sit in the solution for extended periods of time, 2 minutes is plenty for heavily soiled items.

5. You should still be wearing your gloves at this point. Remove the jewelry and place them in the palm of your hand. Using a toothbrush, scrub the items to remove any tough dirt that may be left.

6. Clean your jewelry off with plain old tap water until all of the degreaser is removed and you should be left with clean jewelry. If not, repeat the process.

This process will not restore a "Buffed Shine" to your jewelry as that is a complete process of its own that we will be discussing later. This is a great process for in between buffs or to just keep the jewelry you wear every day a little bit cleaner. It has certainly saved us a lot of money throughout the years and the only time I've had a bad effect is when I left the jewelry in the degreaser to soak for longer than 20 minutes. That's why we only recommend a soak time of 2 minutes, although you can be the judge for yourself. Some items with old skin lotion buildup may need a little longer soak or more aggressive scrubbing, but I've yet to find anything that won't come clean from the items with this technique.