It is quite difficult to distinguish new products made of melchior from silver products, although melchior is just an alloy of copper, silver, nickel and zinc. Most often, melchior is used for the manufacture of cutlery, and much less often manufacturers use this alloy to create jewelry or utensils. But be that as it may, there are almost every house from Melchior, and they, like silver, eventually lose their attractiveness and darken. But there is a way out of this situation – for Melchior, like silver, it is necessary to properly care and periodically correctly clean it, and then it will always look and shine, like new. So, how to clean the melchior correctly?
How to clean the melchior
It is possible that not all housewives know that melchior products are preferably cleaned often – ideally, after each use. Moreover, for everyday cleaning of Melchiore, no special tools are required – for this you will need baking soda. Take 50 grams of baking soda and dilute it in one liter of warm water. Rinse all the melchior products in this solution and enjoy their beautiful appearance again.
But this, of course, is the easiest method of cleaning products from Melchior, which, unfortunately, cannot always help. Most likely, it will be ineffective if you have not cleaned your cutlery from Melchior for a long time. In this case, your assistants can be special products for cleaning products from this alloy, which can be purchased in jewelry stores. They can be in different types – you can offer cleaning napkins, pastes, solutions or polishes. All of them have active chemicals, so it is better to use them not often in minimal quantities, so as not to harm their body.
Of course, you can clean the melchior and safer and tested “grandfathers” methods. So, our ancestors used alcohol, vodka, crushed chalk or suede, which simply rubbed loafer to shine.
How to clean the melchior
Quite often, you can hear or read the tips on the Internet that you can clean the melchior of pollution or darkening using a toothpolate or toothpaste. It is possible that such mechanical cleaning will give shine shine to your products, but do not forget that such a mechanical effect can lead to the appearance of microcracks on the surface of products from melchior, as a result of which their darkening will subsequently be expressed more clearly.
Some housewives use ammonia for cleaning melchiora, which is sold in a pharmacy. To do this, it must be poured into a container, into which then it is necessary to lower the products from the melchiore in turn. Then they should be washed well under water and wiped thoroughly. This method has only one drawback, which consists in a sharp and unpleasant smell of ammonia. In some people, it can cause a headache.
Another “grandfather” method of cleaning Melchiora tells us that such products can be cleaned with ordinary husk from garlic, which is probably in every house. To do this, boil melchior products in garlic husk. But to achieve a noticeable effect, it is very important to choose the desired concentration of the husk, which can only be determined experimentally.
How to clean the melchior
Hardly contaminated melchior products can also be boiled in a solution of baking soda. To do this, you will need soda, pots and foil, which must be put on the bottom of the pan. Then pour water into the container and pour soda there in the following proportion – per 1 liter of water 4 tablespoons of baking soda. Bring the soda solution to a boil and immerse it without turning off the fire, your products from the melchior, 15-20 minutes. After that, they must be carefully rinsed with water and wiped dry. What is good, this method is almost always effective, and, moreover, baking soda is completely safe for human health. Therefore, cutlery from melchior can be cleaned without fear with its help.
Melchiore products also require proper storage. If you rarely use your melchior products, then, so that they do not darken, they need to be stored wrapped in foil.