There are many home remedies and old wives tales dealing with how to clean jewelry. Most of these not only do not work, but also can be extremely harmful to your jewelry. Some examples of these include:

Toothpaste: One of the most common home remedies for cleaning jewelry is using toothpaste. You should absolutely never use toothpaste to clean your jewelry! Toothpaste is abrasive. While this is a good thing for cleaning plaque off your teeth, it will scratch gold and softer gems.

Boiling water: Many people believe that boiling jewelry in water is a good way to clean it. In fact boiling is one of the easiest ways to destroy fine jewelry. Boiling your jewelry can crack or discolor gemstones, even diamonds.

Ammonia: Ammonia is okay to use on diamonds, rubies, and sapphires, but will damage other gemstones. Ammonia should only be used on unfilled diamonds. Fracture filled diamonds should never be cleaned in acidic solutions or ammonia.

Professional polishing solutions: Professional polishing solutions have a mild abrasive in them. This abrasive will make your gold jewelry shine, but it will also scratch the gold.

Cleaning your jewelry often will make it sparkle and shine. Diamonds especially should be cleaned regularly, as they naturally attract grease. A clean flawed diamond can look ten times better than a dirty flawless one.

Diamonds are the hardest substance known, but that doesn’t mean we can bring them back to life with any old cleanser. Coatings and other materials used to enhance diamonds can sometimes be removed by harsh chemicals or vigorous scrubbing, so take care when it’s time to make your diamond ring sparkle.

Gentle & Effective Ways to Clean Diamond Rings:-

1.Soak your diamond ring in a warm solution of mild liquid detergent and water.Ivory dishwashing liquid is a good choice, but any other mild detergent is fine.

2.Use a soft brush if necessary to remove dirt. Soft is the key — don’t use a brush with bristles that are stiff enough to scratch the ring’s metal setting.

3.Swish the ring around in the solution, and then rinse it thoroughly in warm water. Close the drain first, or put the ring in a strainer to keep from losing it!

4.Dry the diamond ring with a lint-free cloth.

Good Luck!

For another, the diamond industry as a whole is so smarmy, with their ad campaigns that try to make people feel like garbage if they can’t drop thousands on a ring or that how much you spend equals how much you love someone. I’d like to boycott the whole industry on principal.

As far as the comments about moissanite not making a good heirloom – well, frankly, that makes no sense. Family heirlooms are valued for their sentimental value. If people valued them for their monetary value, very few objects would ever become heirlooms, because the heirs would cash them in.

One thing I have wondered, though, and I don’t have an answer – right now moissanite stones are still fairly expensive. What happens when it becomes easier to manufacture them? Technology moves forward all the time, so is it possible that one day people will be able to buy a stone for less than a hundred dollars that a person would spend hundreds on today? That’s not advice of any kind, just something I’ve always been curious about.

Your new ring is awesome. Wear it with pride and ignore people who don’t know how to prioritize.

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I like the fake diamond engagement ring better-

Whether you choose a diamond or moissanite – it’s just a ring. The real gift is spending the rest of your life with your fiance/husband. Congrats!!

Good luck!!