Keeping the wholesale jewelry pieces you buy sparkling makes them more valuable in the eyes of your customers.  Everything from fingerprints, to skin oils, dust, and tarnish, blur the beauty of jewelry and keep it from shinning with a high quality appearance.

If you want to increase your sales and charge high prices, keep your jewelry clean.  The sparkles that clean jewelry produce are the reason why it is sold so successfully, so you, as a jewelry home business owner, must work to keep your pieces clean and free of tarnish.

You can even give added value to your customers by offering to clean their other jewelry pieces. This will help you create a good relationship with them because they will feel nurtured and you will establish yourself as an expert in the field.

Nevertheless, you have to be very careful when cleaning jewelry.  First, you must make sure the piece is in good condition, no lose stones or weak parts, and never use abrasives or bleach, which will damage the silver and the stones.  Discard toothpaste, scouring powder, baking soda, and creamy opaque jewelry cleaners.

When using a toothbrush, use a new one, and use it only to clean jewelry.

If you are thinking about seriously offering the jewelry cleaning service to your customers, you may want to be safe and make your own jewelry cleaner.

Here we give you a recipe that has worked wonders; you can use it for your business and even give it to your customers as an added value gift. Just print the recipe on a small card and include it in the shopping bag with every purchase:

Mix together:

-2 tablespoons of liquid hand soap

-1 cup of water

-½ a teaspoon of ammonia

Add a drop of food coloring if you want to make it look like a brand cleaner.  Store it in a clean glass jar, where it can last a year or more.  This cleaner can be used on gold, silver, and costume jewelry, but not on opal or other porous stones.

How to apply it:

-Soak the jewelry piece in the cleaner for a moment and rinse it with water.

-Pat dry it with a soft cloth.

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Cubic zirconia jewelry requires regular cleaning in order to keep its original shine.  It will get dull due to the constant contact with body lotions, soaps, perfumes, hairsprays, make-up and perspiration.  A worn piece of jewelry, or one with loose or missing stones, is most probably one that has never been cleaned.  Too much dirt gets in the metal settings and stones, producing abrasive wear, which will eventually cause the stones to fall.  As weird as it may seem, gemologists consider that, among gems, cubic zirconia is the one with characteristics most similar to diamonds, so it has to be cared for in the same way people care for this precious stone.

In any case, it is actually very easy to keep cubic zirconia jewelry looking sparkling clean, so take the time to give your clients added value and show them how to care for their jewelry pieces to make sure they enjoy them for many years to come.  Just ask them to follow these 7 easy sparkling ways to clean their jewelry:

1.    Use a small brush with soft bristles, a toothbrush will work perfectly.

2.    Use only warm or hot water with a mild liquid dishwashing detergent.  Brush it very well, rinse it, pat dry the jewelry with a clean cloth, and check it.  If it needs more cleaning, soak the pieces in hot water with one part detergent and two parts water, brush again and dry them very well.

3.    Keep the jewelry away from abrasive substances like household chemicals.  Do not wear it when cleaning with bleach or ammonia, or when swimming in chlorinated water.

4.    If the dirt doesn’t come out, take the cubic zirconia to the jeweler or to the jewelry wholesaler to give it a high-pressure steam clean, as it is done with diamonds.

5.    Apply lotions, perfumes, make-up and hairsprays before putting on the jewelry.

6.    Store the cubic zirconia jewelry pieces inside a cloth bag or special section in a jewelry box.

7.    How regularly it should be cleaned depends on how often it is worn, for example, if it is worn every day, clean it at least once a week.

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