Protection
Always protect your jewellery from sharp blows, scratching, chemicals, sunlight and heat or cold. Ideally, store your jewellery in a soft lined box or pouch. Try to keep pieces apart, so that they do not rub together or tangle up.
Our products are guaranteed against manufacturing faults, but not misuse.
Wear jewellery for appropriate tasks, avoid wearing rings when cleaning, gardening or performing sports activities chlorine in swimming pools can cause damage.
Do not let your jewellery come into contact with nail polish removers, perfume , hairspray and deodorant.
We recommend you protect your silver jewellery by wrapping it in a Silver fabric pouch for jewellery and storing it in a cool, dry place, keeping individual pieces separate to avoid scratching.
Gold, Platinum and Silver Tips
Generally, the higher the carat weight of gold, the softer the metal. So that 9ct gold, being alloyed with other metals tends to be less resistant to scratching than say 22ct gold. This is why some recommend that you should wear rings of a similar quality together e.g. wedding and engagement rings.
Because gold is a soft metal and some manufacturers use this feature to stretch out the metal to produce a showy piece, but do not take into account the need for strength. The unsuspecting buyer thinks that they're buying a great piece of jewellery, only to find it going out of shape on the first wear. All our gold jewellery is inspected by a professional jeweller, before dispatch.
Sterling silver is a metal containing at least 92.5% silver. This is the legal standard of purity set by the assay offices in Britain and used for most silver jewellery throughout the world. It means that the metal used is of a specific quality. Pure silver is never used, as it is too soft to be practical.
Sterling silver will polish up by rubbing or buffing it with a soft cotton cloth or a Sunshine Cloth. Sterling silver will tarnish with time and wear. To take care of your sterling silver jewellery, polish it frequently with a soft dry cloth to avoid tarnish (do not use silver dip). Ideally, use a specially impregnated silver polishing cloth to ensure that your jewellery continues to retain its original lustre and shine.
Gemstone Tips
Gem stone hardness is based on a standard called the Mohs scale. The higher the Mohs scale number, the harder the stone is. When the Mohs scale was developed, early gemologists tried rubbing one stone against another to see which stone caused scratching on another. Quartz is rated at 7 on the Mohs scale, and that is why any gemstone with a rating of less than 7 is easily scratched such as coral, lapis lazuli, opal, pearl, and turquoise.
Also, some stones can be quite porous such as opal, pearl, turquoise, that is why you shouldn't leave these kind of stones immersed in water for too long.
Common stones that are damaged in sunlight, these include:
Amethyst: becomes paler
Ametrine: may change colour
Aquamarine: becomes paler
Aventurine: translucent types often lose colour
Beryl: brown or orange types may change to pale pink
Citrine: may change colour
Kunzite: becomes pale or loses colour
Rose Quartz: becomes paler
Smoky Quartz: becomes paler
Gemset Jewellery
Check your jewellery to ensure that stones mounted in rings are not loose or rattle if that's the case, visit your local jeweller before it's too late , it's much cheaper to have the prongs repaired than to replace a gemstone. Don't forget that the prongs of a ring can and do wear down, If the prongs wear down too much or break, you will lost the stone. Prongs are easily retipped by most jewellers to keep the stone secure.
Beads
If you have beaded necklaces such as gemstone, or pearls, store them flat, preferably in a silk pouch. If the string breaks, let a professional jeweller restring them for you. If you are considering buying expensive beaded jewellery look for beads are a knotted between each bead, so that if the string breaks you won't loose so many beads
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