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How to Clean Silver
by
Jennifer @ Decorated Chaos
(IC: blogger)
You may remember that I found this silver platter at the thrift store for half price. Its no surprise that people were passing this up, I mean look how dirty and tarnished it is. Well, I am a thrifty chick and was drawn to the engraving and holly detail so I bought it hoping I could revive it.
Before beginning this process I tried using my silver cleaning cloth that I use for cleaning my jewelry but it wasn't looking too hot so I continued with my plan of trying the DIY silver cleaner I found online.
Simply line your sink with foil.......
then let the platter soak in extremely hot salty water for about 40 minutes.
Along the way I added a little more salt and some baking soda then rinsed it and dried it with a paper towel.
revealing a beautiful silver Christmas platter....my diamond in the rough!
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Published November 10th, 2015 11:33 PM
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Would this work on large items? We have a large very ornate pitcher we use for communionand it needs cleaning
Wouldn’t this remove the intensional tarnish used to enhance details?
Can you use this same process on jewelry?