Our materials and care tips

We've compiled our personal care tips for you. It's important that you tailor your care to the material of your jewelry so you can enjoy it for a long time. That's why this article provides you with detailed insights into material science, as a better understanding of the properties and characteristics of different materials is very important for optimal jewelry care.

We at Melanie Mirabel work in our Jewelry making exclusively with selected and high-quality Materials and stuck viel Effort in the continuous improvement the Quality, with it You as possible long Joy to Your Jewelry have. For this reason stand Melanie & her team also anytime after Your Shopping for any Questions to Quality and possible Repairs and corrections Yours Jewelry to Disposal.

1. 925 sterling silver

All our Silver Jewelry become out of 925 Sterling silver made. The is one alloy, so one Connection out of 92.5% pure Silver and 7.5% others metals, normally Copper. The Fineness amounts so 925/1000 (in Split). For this reason finds her also on the back from all our followers the small (minimal) Quality stamp 925.

After longer Time can the silver one dark coloring assume, the so-called “Start-up"Silver oxidizes, this is a completely normal process. This is especially true if the jewelry is left unprotected for a long time and exposed to air and moisture (z.B in the bathroom).

It is important that the Discoloration of the metal NOT with the Quality related, rather is one natural reaction of the metal on the oxygen in the Air and the PH value Your Skin. moisture (Water, sweat, perfume) has the largest Influence on the metal. This applies to all sterling silver jewelry.

The beauty of sterling silver is that oxidation and discoloration always good can be cleaned because it is NOT silver-plated, but is made of real silver as described above.

Care tips for your silver jewelry

Tip No. 1. Soft microfiber cloth

We recommend polishing your jewelry regularly with a soft microfiber cloth, ideally after each wear, to gently remove handprints, greasy residue from skin, creams, soap, and perfume. We'll include a small cloth in your jewelry box free of charge, along with a brief care guide, with your order.

We recommend the silver cleaning cloth from HAGERTYYou can easily find the cloth on Amazon:

>> HAGERTY CLEANING CLOTH

It contains a special impregnation and removes Removes oxidation and blackened areas and gives your silver a new shine - without damaging it.

Watch our video. We'll show you how great it is to clean jewelry with this cloth:

A thorough polish of the pendant and chain...hocus pocus...and the stains are gone. It's a really great cloth that we on the team use regularly ourselves.

Important Scratches and discoloration (if z.b. at the corners the silver slightly shines through under a gold plating) cannot, of course, be "magically removed".

Home remedy tip:. Aluminum salt bath

Ein popular Miracle cure, if it is about the cleaning of silver jewelry goes, is the aluminum-salt bath.

Step 1: Line a small, tall bowl with aluminum foil.

Step 2Pour boiling water with 1 teaspoon of salt into the aluminum foil. Mix well until the salt dissolves and a saline solution forms.

Step 3: Place your silver jewelry in the hot salt water and close the foil - like a baked potato :) And let everything sit for about Rest for 5-10 minutes.

Step 4: Remove the jewelry from the salt solution and spread it out on a dry cloth. The solution should remove any dirt, scale, and other residue from the chain and pendants. With a soft Decorative cloth Be careful when cleaning your jewelry.Please do not rub or scrub to avoid scratching your jewelry.

And with a toothbrush You can use it to clean chain links because you can get into the links and tiny gaps to brush out the black deposits.

Step 5: Ready? Then let your jewelry dry thoroughly.

...et voilà. Your jewelry should shine beautifully again.

3. Dishwashing liquid water

You quite Try this simple and very popular trick at home: Mix some detergent water for the cleaning yours Jewelry to. Give for that simply 1-2 drops Dishwashing liquid in a small vessel with warm Water and put the jewelry for a couple minutes into the bathroom. Dafter rinse you him with clear Water off and dry him with a soft Polishing cloth. Drying thoroughly is important! We hear time and again from our customers that this trick works great. So give it a try yourself!

Extra tips

1. Place Your Jewelry never loose in the Jewelry box, the cosmetic bag or the drawer, otherwise scratched Your jewelry.
   
2. You can Real silver also wonderful with Silver-cleaning cloths clean and polishing, the already one suitable liquid contain.
3. If you're not going to wear your jewelry for a while, it's best to store it in a small, airtight plastic bag with a strip of aluminum foil inside. This will prevent your jewelry from tarnishing! So, it's best not to leave it hanging on a jewelry stand in the open air for long periods of time, even if it looks nice.
   

2. Gold-plated jewelry

All our gilded Chains and Trailer become out of 925 Sterling silver with one high-quality (until to 18k) light gold alloy made, d.h. in the base are this Real silver and that might the Trailer high-quality as for example one Bamade of brass or stainless steel. And for this reason gives it i.d.R. no turquoise Discoloration on the skin, the mostly through copper and high Brass content arise. Dthen if copper through the PH Portion Your Skin, moisture or sweat oxidized, becomes it green. And this transmits itself on the skin.

Note: gold-plated material is NOT real gold!

gilt means, that one thin layer Gold alloy on the surface of the Base material pulled becomes, in our trap on Sterling silver. The Gilding processes are one Science for itself and the Mixtures and Gilding bath mixtures become not always clear designatedAt Melanie Mirabel, we invest a lot of time and effort into offering truly high-quality gold plating.

Since it itself only but to one Coating acts, is gold-plated Material in the durability much more sensitive as Silver or Real gold. It lies at the Nature the Coating, that this with currently depart can, through the friction with others followers and with dem permanent contact to Skin (the pH value and the moisture Your skin and the use from perfume and Care products accelerate the discoloration) as well as through the Lying around in the jewelry box. The coating will naturally wear away over time.And if jewelry is left unprotected for a long time, then running he and works then sometime matt and lackluster.

Care tips for gold-plated Jewelry

Place Da Jewelry never loose in the Jewelry box, the cosmetic bag or the drawer, otherwise scratched Your jewelry.

1. polishers regularly after dem Carry with a delicate Decorative cloth the Trailer and cleanse them from the stains of the day.

2. Never and never the Trailer rub and scrub, beautiful always the Coating.

3. If she frosted remain or residues on the followers are, canst You this in warm Soapy water soaking and soft with the fingers above the Area go and then thorough rinse and dry dab.

Our very personal tip for you:

We recommend the silver cleaning cloth from HAGERTYYou can easily find the cloth on Amazon:

>> HAGERTY CLEANING CLOTH

It contains a special impregnation and removes Removes oxidation and blackened areas and gives your silver a new shine - without damaging it.

Watch our video. We'll show you how great it is to clean jewelry with this cloth:

A thorough polish of the pendant and chain...hocus pocus...and the stains are gone. It's a really great cloth that we on the team use regularly ourselves.

Important Scratches and discoloration (if z.b. at the corners the silver slightly shines through under a gold plating) cannot, of course, be "magically removed".

We also recommend the jewelry polishing cloths from Connoisseurs. It contains 25 small Jewellery wipes that are also ideal to take with you on a trip.

You can also find these on Amazon, just click here and order:

>> CONNOISSEURS wipes

3. Real gold jewelry

Melanie Mirabel offers You with their Real gold Chains collection also Jewelry for the eternity All of our real gold jewelry is handcrafted and crafted in our goldsmith's workshop, allowing us to create a piece of jewelry entirely according to your wishes.

Pure Gold becomes through the alloy - so the mixture with others metals How Copper and silver for jewelry making strengthened. Since gold is too “soft” in its pure state, it can be his highest Degree of fineness not to Jewelry creation used become.

For this reason is it importantthat you can see the Fineness of the Gold jewelry look at, because each higher the Fineness, so higher the Gold content – and so more expensive the Jewel. In everyone our Product descriptions find You exact Details for the Material and Gold value.

Real gold is therefore very high quality and that explained the clearly higher Price in our Real gold collection. It is the highest quality Precious material worldwide and because of his lifelong Quality and fineness from special Value.

The great thing is: You can wear your real gold jewelry anytime and anywhere—when showering, exercising, or swimming. It never discolors and can last a lifetime.

How to measure the fineness of gold jewelry

There are two different ways to measure the fineness of gold jewelry:

1) In carats

Carat (Abbreviation.kt or C) is one Unit of measurement for the Fineness of gold and says You, How large the Weight fraction pure Gold at the Total mass one Gold alloy is.

18K = 75% Pure Gold
12K = 50% Pure Gold
8K = 33% Pure Gold

2) In 1/1000 shares

The purity from processed Gold in the Jewelry becomes alternatively to Carat (and before everything in Europe) also in 1/1000 parts specified.

750 Gold: 18K gold (75% pure Gold, i.e. 750 parts of 1000 Split)
585 Gold: 14K Gold (58.5% pure Gold, i.e. 585 parts of 1000 Split)
333 Gold: 8k Gold (33.3% pure Gold, i.e. 333 parts of 1000 Split)

8K real gold (333 yellow gold)

The 8 carats Gold alloy is a wonderfullhe Entry in the Real gold Jewelry. She know the lowest Fine gold content out of, with 33,3.0% Gold content in the alloy and is with it price-wise more affordable. 333 gold has a comparatively high Hardness, so very firmly. Through this holds the material also high Burdens without Problems stood. Our 8K Gold jewelry are from a beautiful, bright Gold tone, the noble, elegant and fresh in the Look is.

14K real gold (585 yellow gold)

A 14K alloy means a Portion of 58.5% Gold content in the alloy and is the most used Gold in the Jewelry industry. The alloy is with it clearly high-quality, what in the Final prices reflects. 14K Gold are beautiful, noble and long-lasting Jewelry.

18K real gold (750 yellow gold)

An 18K Jewel means, that it with a Portion of 75% gold made becomes, so dem highest Portion, which exists in the Jewelry processing gives. With it is the alloy the highest quality and also price-wise on highest located. The shade of the 18K Gold jewelry is a warmer Gold tone, very noble and he flatters everyone skin type.

Care tips for your real gold jewelry:

Real gold Jewelry can You a Lifelong in every activity accompany, because he can day and night worn But also Real gold Trailer point out with currently Signs of wear on. Wthen it several Trailer on Chain are created sometimes also light scratch through the permanent friction the Pendants together. Also the permanent contact with Your skin, on the Perfume, soap and sweat sit, leaves behind stains on Your Jewelry.

1. Clean and polish Your jewelry in regular intervals.The can you also wonderful with Goldcleaning cloths do, the already one suitable liquid contain.
2. We recommend the Gcorpses Tips How at Silver jewelry. To shine Yours Gold jewelry to receive, take You for the Example one Peel with warm water, 1-2 drops Dishwashing liquid and one softs Cloth or one soft toothbrush. Only the Jewel short in the detergent water insert, then with dem Cloth polishing. Thereafter, very important, the Jewelry long and good rinse (with it no Dishwashing liquid in the chain links, in the closure or the small connecting rings sit remains) and on a soft Cloth dry let.

Our personal tip for you:

Contact us, if You like your Jewel newl refresh like, if you professional from our goldsmith polishing want to leave, or if you Engravings want to refresh. This service is at us for free!

Questions about your jewelry?

And if you have any questions or are unable to clean your jewelry to its former glory, please contact us via email hello@melaniemirabel.com