How to clean your gold

Looks very nice gilding in every apartment. Nice every morning to Wake up to the ringing alarm clock with beautiful rose gold plated case, eating under the dim light of a candle, standing in a carved gilded candlestick. Finally, it's nice to go to expensive watches with gold-plated strap. But such beauty requires care and periodic cleaning.

Instruction

1. Before doing the next cleaning plated items, erase them from all the dust, wipe with a soft sponge or piece of cotton wool. Just pre-moisten a sponge or cotton wool with turpentine or wine alcohol. If you have no liquids, you can get a nice strong beer or a mixture of soap and ammonia in a ratio of 4:1.
2. Good clean gilding and egg whites. Them it is necessary carefully to wipe the item using a piece of flannel. You can use the mixture of proteins (2-3 eggs) with javel water (18 g). The resulting composition apply gilding using a soft brush, paying special attention to the tarnished areas.
3. For these purposes used pure red wine vinegar. Cover them with gilding with a soft brush, piece of cotton or sponge. After 5 minutes carefully rinse off the vinegar with clean water and leave to dry without wiping it.
4. For washing gold-plated things, immerse them in warm podpylennuyu water for 10-20 minutes where you must first drop of ammonia (2 tsp per liter water). Alcohol will increase the gloss of gold, will help to clear the subject. In addition, he is a good antistatic agent. Gilded rinsing the items in clean water, wipe them dry.
5. Gilded bronze can be cleaned with the same tool and wipe clean with a cloth dampened with water soft brush, then apply with a soft brush a composition of 60 parts of water, 15 parts nitric acid and 2 parts of alum. Then leave the object to dry, not wiping it.