Review on 🔶 Maximizing Brilliant Results: Silver Clean And Shine Bath by Monica Smith

I used this to restore my very fine, thin silver jewellery, ie with finishes, beads and details too small to polish successfully creams, treated fabrics etc. The product works but not as well as I would have hoped for heavily tarnished items, it takes two or more treatments to make them wearable again. I followed the instructions, and based on my experience I have the following tips: 1. Put a fine sieve over the sink drain, just in case; 2. The pouch will float when boiling water is poured into it, so have a couple of heavy sterling silver spoons handy to lower it back down and bring any displaced items back into contact with it; 3. Prepare two plastic containers for the dishes: one with hot soapy water for washing dishes after treatment, the other with ordinary hot water for rinsing; 4. Prepare a fine strainer for the last drain of the water and a clean, dry towel on which to put the washed things; and 5. I left the jewelry in the solution for 10 minutes instead of 5 as directed and got better results; this is a chemical reaction and bubbling and blushing is seen forming a gray foam over the solution. After about 10 minutes most of the action is complete so I removed the items so the tarnishing doesn't happen again. As this is a chemical reaction, it is very important not to add other metals, including stainless steel, to the solution. It is safe for glass beads and relatively inert or siliceous gemstones or mineral beads such as all forms of quartz, garnet etc. However, as a geologist I would not recommend risking soft or less inert minerals such as pearls, coral, opals or turquoise, malachite. Or you can remove a bead from the back and test it in the next batch if you don't know what it's made of. I hope these tips help! I think this type of product ("Silver Dip") is really the only way to make badly tarnished silver pieces presentable again and it's the best I've tried, probably in part due to the heat generated by boiling water will be added. I recommend and look forward to trying on my sterling dinnerware.