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Cleaning silver - Does anybody know a good home-type formula?

I found my old silver amethyst ring at the bottom of my jewelry box and I don't have any silver cleaner/polishwhatever it is you're supposed to use.It seems like I watched this show once where this woman poured water softener into a foil-lined pan and put her silver in it for cleaning'Cause I remember trying to find a quot;water softenerquot; to buy and all I could find was big whole-house softening or filtration equipmentAnd I started to wonder if regular laundry liquid fabric softener would do the same thing?AnythingI just need some way of getting the tarnish off and shining my ring upThx in advance! D

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Combine 1 Tablespoon salt + 1 Tablespoon baking soda with warm water in a glass or plastic bowlPlace a piece of aluminum foil and your jewelry into the water and let soak for 1 hourRemove and rub with a dry clothAlternatively, you can use washing soda: From Peter Rowe: A few notes from a professional jewelerThe same process works, slightly faster, using just “washing soda (sodium carbonate)” Found in the laundry aisle at the grocery storeNo salt with thatAlso, warm water speeds it up a bitIt’s important that the silver be in actual contact with the aluminum foil (you can also just use an aluminum pan rather than foil, the silver still has to be in contact with itPlain aluminum, not anodized or coatedWhat this does is to cause an electrolytic reaction (like a battery) that reduces the silver and copper sulphides (the tarnish) back to silverSo it works on any silver, including jewelry, so long as it’s actually a silver surfaceMuch jewelry is rhodium plated, so it won’t work thereBut that stuff doesn’t tarnish, so no confusionAlso OK for silver plate, not just solid silverOne important note is that this doesn’t polish the silverIt changes the black or discolored silver back to a white colorBut that can look still less than cleanIf it was badly tarnished, it will be a dull white to cream colorThen use any decent silver polish paste or cream, or a rouge cloth, to restore the actual shineWhile this sounds like extra work, it’s a lot faster to just shine it than to have to actually remove the tarnish via that polishingAnd for only slightly tarnished ware, you may not need to do anything else.
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