Jewellery Care Guide | Looking After Your Jewellery

Misplacing jewellery is the most common way people loose their precious items.

We advise to have three designated spots where your jewellery can be placed:

1- A wooden bowl up high in the kitchen- this is wear your rings can live when you are cooking and cleaning the kitchen.

2- A jewellery box in your room - this is where you put all your jewellery at the end of the day before you go to sleep.

3- A hidden safety storage place - This is where you put your precious item when you go on vacation.

To keep your jewellery looking sparkly at home soak your ring in warm water mixed with dishwashing liquid. Then with a soft bristle toothbrush, gently tap under and behind the gemstones, this will pull out creams and hand soaps that get stuck behind the gems.

We advise you to bring the jewellery we have made for you into the Set Together Jewellery shop on a yearly basis for a complimentary clean and check up.

Hand lotions and soaps will not damage your jewellery. However, they will get caught behind the gemstones and diamonds which will make the item look less sparkly. These products can easily be cleaned off during your yearly check up.

The fine threads of sheets and other bedding can become tangled underneath claws and prongs. Long earrings and chains can also become tangle while sleeping.

We advise not to wear your jewellery while sleeping unless it is a plain band (no gems set in it)

You are prone to damaging settings and scratching rings while doing housework which includes mopping, vacuuming, cooking, doing the dishes, gardening etc.

We advise not to wear any rings while engaged in housework. Earrings and pendants are fine to wear during these activities.

For any work involving heavy hands-on labor like building, carpentry, bricklaying, mechanical work, home-painting, furniture assembly, plumbing, electrical works etc.

We advise to not wear any jewellery so as to not damage the items or create a greater risk of injury to the wearer.

The gym is the most common place where damage to rings occur, due to the nature of lifting heavy steel bars.

We advise to never wear your jewellery at the gym.

Running, walking, yoga and platies provided you are not using equipment, are safe activities to continue wearing your jewellery.

Water will not damage your jewellery, however, sand will scratch precious metals as well as the surface of pools as these materials are made out or compounds harder than gold or platinum.

We advise not to wear you jewellery while swimming.