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Pearls Storage Tips
- 2010-04-01
Pearls Storage Tips
For the majority of women the best place to keep your pearls is on your neck! Wearing your pearls gives them the chance to breathe and the body produces natural oils that pearls love. Body warmth and the expression of this fine natural body oil through the skin keeps the pearls looking good.Links of London
Many pearls such as those from Pearls Plus are sold with a Chinese silk jewellery pouch and this is the best way to store your pearls. Velvet lined boxes with separate compartments are also safe to use as are chamois leather pouches. Your pearls may arrive protected by bubble wrap, but you should never store the pearls in this plastic long term.
If you throw pearls into a jewel box full of other tangled jewellery your pearls will soon lose their lustrous sparkle, the surface will become scratched, wires will become bent and clasps scratched.Links of London charm
Never put your pearls on top of a fireplace, television set or a radiator as the heat will discolour them often turning them brown overnight. For the same reason avoid steam cleaning them.
Don't touch your pearls with your fingers if eating bar snack foods which sometimes have chilli style powders on them. Such spices can damage the surface of pearls. I once damaged my new Mabé pearl earrings when eating chilli style taco biscuits at a party. One earring still has a minute little speckle spot where the chilli powder rested. I was lucky the spot is so tiny, but the spice speck literally burnt into side of the pearl.Links of London jewelry
Store strung pearls flat as they won't stretch so quickly as when hung.
Don't store pearls in a very dry room, nor in a safe deposit box. Pearls appreciate a little moisture so wearing them regularly is important.