How to polish table silver
How to polish table silver
If by inheritance from the grandmother you gotsilverware, it's fine. You can be proud of it and clean it for every holiday. But even if your silver reserves are counted in several grams of jewelry and a spoon for sugar, their brilliance will please you no less. But how to polish table silver, in our time very few people know.
You will need
- - Toothpaste
- - olive oil
- - a piece of chalk
- - ammonia
- - denatured alcohol
- - shaving brush
- - lemon juice
- - salt
- - soda
- - foil
Instructions
1
From toothpaste and olive oil, you can make a polish for products that can not be immersed in water. But too hard to rub is not worth it. Otherwise, you may damage the coating.
2
Try to prepare your own environmental polish for silver. To make it, mix the chopped chalk, ammonia, methane and water.
3
To apply polishing in the grooves decorated with a thin pattern of products, you can use an old shaving brush, wrapping the bristles with a soft rag.
4
Do not wash bone handles in hot water. This speeds up the yellowing process. To bleach bone knobs, prepare a paste of lemon juice and salt. Rub in the handles, rinse with lukewarm water and dry.
5
Put a foil on the bottom of a non-metallic pot,better in two layers. Pour 1 tbsp. a spoonful of soda and 1 tbsp. spoon the salt and pour the water. Dip silver products into the solution and leave for two hours. After two hours, the foil will darken, take out the silver, rinse and wipe dry.
