For us who serve as professional 925 sterling silver jewelry manufacturer and wholesaler in this land of smile, will now explain the nature of silver that it has to be black or not?
Why black? Because it is normal that silver would react with oxygen in the air, and can be stimulated by the salt like in our sweat (people typically said it would be black easily, and will keep shining if you have sour sweat. But I guess you do not have to taste your sweat now :) )
So you can be happy if your silver jewelry go to black cause it is the proof that you have "real" 92.5% silver.
Everyone who use silver jewelry in daily life know this well, and keep wash and polish their jewelry everyday before wear them. Usually it take around 2 days to start getting black when keep them expose to the sun and air, and will be faster if you wear it all day because of your sweat. But most ones are still happy because their jewelry are made of "precious" metal, not low cost as stainless or other metal or just brass that keep shining.
How to wash sterling silver jewelry properly? Just use typical jewelry washing cloth in the market (most of them has two side-two color. Use the yellow or light color side that has no any pattern on it to polish your silver jewelry because this side has cleaning solution coated.)
But if you do not have, do not worry, just wash with typical dish washing liquid and polish them with dry clean cloth. It is really easy and take a little time for this daily care!
But in professional industry like us, we have practical option to coat with "anti-tarnish substance" like coat with lacquer for woodworking. It makes your silver jewelry to be shining for a long time till the coating is peel off or loss. You can invest more with "E-Coat", using electrolytic process to stick anti-tarnish coating more firmly, give very longer period them the first one.
And the most favorite coating from most silver jewelry shop all the world is "Rhodium coating" even this type of coating give a little more dark color (with hi-class feeling than plain silver) instantly, but it can make nearly everlasting shine! And you can feel more precious than plain silver because rhodium is very precious element! (We have two type, rhodium and black rhodium. With black rhodium will be more dark and feel more worthy as you can see in above picture!)








