How to clean gold

Surely at home you have jewelry or some other gold item that you would like to clean and you do not know how to do it, right? Well, in the first place, what you should know is that the gold cleaning will be different according to its type, for example between white gold and yellow gold . So you can carry out this action without any problem, we explain how to clean the gold.

Yellow gold

Yellow gold is what comes to everyone's head when we think of this precious metal. Although the pure gold is 24 carats, it is too fragile and soft to be treated in jewelry and, therefore, the most commonly used in jewelry is usually 18 carats.

Unlike other metals such as silver that blacken and need to be cleaned thoroughly, this type of gold does not need much care. In case we are ralle some jewel or element of yellow gold, we will have to take it to the jewelry so that we polish it and recover its original state.

In case we want to clean it at home, we can do it with a special cloth for it or using a cloth dipped in water and ammonia.

White gold

White gold is an alloy of pure gold with other white metals such as silver, platinum, palladium or nickel. In turn, it is usually coated with high-gloss rhodium to achieve a mirror finish.

For this reason, after a while, it is possible that our white gold jewelry will lose its original brilliance and it will be necessary to take it to the jeweler to give it back the rhodium, the only way to clean the white gold.

Pink gold

Rose gold is another of the most common types of this metal, although popularly less known, made from the fine gold alloy of 24 carats, silver and copper.

At the time of cleaning the rose gold, we are in the same situation as with the yellow gold: in the jewelry they will be able to restore the original shine by polishing . Also, we can also use ammonia dissolved in water to wash it in our home.

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