Sterling silver jewelry – frequently asked questions
Sterling silver is one of the most popular materials for making jewelry items for thousands of years. It is popular according to its property; affordability and its durability compare with other precious metal like gold and platinum.
With the sterling silver jewelry, there are most common questions concerning about their properties including,
1. How to clean sterling silver jewelry?
The best way to clean your sterling silver jewelry is using jewelry cloth with two different colors in each side special design for this proposes. Don’t rub your jewelry with any hard object as it can easily scratch your jewelry surface. Silver dip is another common reagent for your sterling silver cleaning. Just to make sure that your silver jewelry is not plated with other metal, otherwise silver-dip reagent will remove those metals and damage the jewelry pieces instead.
2. How to store sterling silver jewelry?
Like other jewelry pieces, you need to keep and store your sterling silver in a proper way. The ideal place for all jewelry is a cool and away from sunlight. Especially for silver, heat and light will turn silver into yellowish and activate tarnish appearance on the jewelry body. If you are not frequently use the piece, keep it in the air-lock back and then place the back in jewelry box.
3. What type of silver jewelry plating?
Because pure silver is unstable and react with oxygen quite quickly, therefore, another metal was used to protect silver from oxygen. In general, there are 2 types for silver plating – nickel and rhodium plating. Rhodium is more expensive than nickel and gives a better protection efficiency to silver. Depend on your choice. Or you can go with the non-plating sterling silver with the high polished sterling silver jewelry. Just keep an eye on them and polish them regularly.
4. How to test for the silver purity in the jewelry item?
Sterling silver is an alloy of 92.5% silver with other metal mixed. You can check for the stamp of 925 on your jewelry pieces, to confirm an authenticity of the jewelry.
5. Can person with nickel allergy wear the sterling silver jewelry?
The answer for this question is “yes”. Just to make sure that the sterling silver jewelry pieces are not plated with nickel. To make sure for the allergy, go with the high polished sterling silver jewelry instead the plated jewelry.



