All jewellery will age and tarnish naturally.   To keep it looking its best we suggest cleaning your jewellery regularly, using a professional jewellery cleaning product.  (Always read the manufacturers instructions).

To reduce the ageing process we suggest:

• Remove jewellery when showering or bathing. This is particularly important when on the beach, in the sea and in chlorinated water.
• Avoid wearing jewellery when doing physical work such as housekeeping, gardening, exercise or heavy lifting.
• Never expose jewellery to household cleaning products, especially bleach and highly reactive solutions.
• Keep away from extreme temperatures and humidity.

Two different metals can also scratch each other and leave their colour on the other. For this reason, we recommend you keep all your jewellery items separate from each other.

Brass is a much softer metal than silver or gold, and is therefore more prone to indentations. Tarnishing will also occur more easily (as a result of oxidisation, caused by the interaction of brass with certain elements such as oxygen and sulphur).  A polish, using warm soapy water (detergent free), should help reduce the tarnish.