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#How to clean pandora bracelet with baking soda how to

Here’s what my bracelet looked like after cleaning!Ī million times better! I’m so happy that I can wear my bracelet again! Time to start thinking about future ones to add onto it! I came across this really cute Mickey and Minnie safety chain charm on Amazon, which I’d love because Disney will always hold a special place in my heart. To finish making it look just about as good as new, I polished it with my silver jewellery cleaning cloth and it just helped to remove any remnants of tarnish. When I took the bracelet out of the solution, I could see already that it was starting to look a lot better (after 18 months no less!).

I left the bracelet chain and charms to soak for around 10 minutes before removing.

I removed the charms from the bracelet and put them into the bowl separately as well as the bracelet chain itself.

I then poured some hot (not boiling) water into the bowl and mixed the salt and bicarbonate of soda together until they dissolved.

I added 1 x tablespoon of salt and 1 x tablespoon of bicarbonate of soda (baking soda) into the bowl.

I covered a small bowl in aluminium foil (could have used an tin foil plate if I had access to one).

(I’d read somewhere that old fashioned cleaning methods involved lemon juice and vinegar, so thought it was worth a shot!).

Rubbing with a special jewellery-cleaning cloth.

Washing the bracelet with gentle detergent and water.

#How to clean pandora bracelet with baking soda how to

Not great, right? Each one of the charms had been bought for me as a gift to celebrate a special occasion or memory, so I was totally gutted to have ruined it like this! I left the bracelet tucked away in a drawer, until I came across this fantastic article which explained how to remove tarnish from silver jewellery! Please do have a read of it for full instructions and how the process of removing tarnish actually works, once you’ve finished reading my post.īefore I explain what I did that actually worked, here are the methods I tried before that all failed… Here’s what my bracelet looked like after the swimming pool incident! I hid it away for some time, until my husband noticed I wasn’t wearing it, at which point I had to fess up. I was rather mortified and tried everything I could think of to remove the tarnish, before failing miserably. When I got out, I realised that the chlorine in the water had totally ruined my bracelet, turning it from bright and shiny to horribly dull and dirty. However, on this particular day, I think I must have visited the most heavily chlorinated swimming pool in the whole of the UK.

It wasn’t the first time my lovely bracelet had come into contact with water, since I’d kept it on my wrist whilst swimming before. Having worn the bracelet every day since I received it as a gift from my husband, I didn’t pay any thought to removing it before going swimming with my daughter. Around 18 months ago, an little incident occurred in relation to my much-loved Pandora bracelet.