I care deeply about the environment, so when I started making metal jewelry I was careful to maintain ethical and environmentally-friendly practices.
Of course, using eco-friendly techniques for cleaning my pieces – and those of my friends and clients - became a natural choice and I learned different ways to polish and keep handmade jewelry beautiful and flawless without harming the environment.
For cleaning jewelry, baking soda is environmentally-friendly, low-cost and at the top of my list. One can do pretty much anything with it, including making jewelry look like new! This powder is slightly abrasive so it needs to be used with caution and only on the right jewelry. It works well with metals like silver and gold with a matte finish. Gently polish the piece rubbing it with a warm, damp cloth that has been sprinkled with baking soda; rinse well and dry the jewelry, et voila’…the tarnished piece will come back to life.
these handmade Maddalena Bearzi jewelry pieces with a matte finish can be easily cleaned with baking soda. Model and actress Frances Pearson wears ba-lena necklace in silver and gold, a pair of marea earrings in bronze and a relitto ring. The silk shirt is Lotte.99.