Sterling Silver Jewelry

Silver is a popular Jewelry metal, Silver used in jewelry is usually sterling silver or 92.5% fine silver.
Sterling Silver characterized as pure silver or fine silver means 99.9% pure silver but it's too soft for most uses, Sterling silver is 92.5% silver and the other 7.5% is another metal mostly copper that serves to hardened the result alloy so the metal can be set into shape.
Sterling Silver jewelry tarnishes simply by being contact with the air, and in continuous wearing often develops a lovely kind of glow combined with darkened area called "Patina" what causes this Patina is by hard rubbing or contact with the skin but it's exceptionally adds to its beauty so if you want that certain effect on your silver jewelry then leave it alone but if you want a certain polished glow of your silver then proper caring of it must be practiced by cleaning it regularly by simply buffing with a cotton cloth, apply a paste of baking soda and water, then rub, rinse and polished with cloth and tap dry. Toothpaste is the most common household products can be used to clean the silver, and other silver liquid cleaner available in the market. Do you know that Silver has enemies? like rubber it affects and corrodes silver, also table salt, vinegar, olive oil and other acid components.
Knowing these information will help our beloved Silver Jewelry retain its beauty and glow.