Jewelry Care

Now That You Have Your Purchase Home.... How Can You Keep It Showcase Brilliant?

Regular Cleaning and Inspection By Your Jeweler and A Few Simple Steps At Home

Regular Cleaning & Inspection By Your Jeweler

To keep your diamond looking new and to keep your Lifetime Warranty in effect, your diamond ring must be inspected and professionally cleaned every six months and the inspection verified in writing on the back of the warranty form. Your Love Story® Jeweler will do this at no charge. In addition to the required inspections, please feel free to bring your ring in at any time for professional cleaning and inspection. Be sure to bring your certificate with you when you have your diamond cleaned and inspected.

Take advantage of the free inspection and cleaning by your Love Story® Jeweler. Between professional cleanings, your diamond's maximum brilliance can be maintained with our specially formulated Love Story® Jewelry Cleaner. Dip your ring in the cleaner solution, and then brush the diamond with a soft, clean brush. Wipe with a soft towel. Follow these few easy tips and your diamond will remain as beautiful as the day you bought it, for years to come.

Jewelry Care No-No's

Sleeping One of the most damaging behaviors done to jewelry is to sleep with it on. You do the most damage to your jewelry in your sleep because you are less aware of your surroundings. Many prong snagging, chain breaking, and missing stones occur overnight.

Showering/Bathing Another common mistake is to shower, wash your hands etc with your jewelry on. There are several acids in shampoos, soaps and lotions that will harm your stones and setting. Especially if your setting is white gold, exposure to these chemicals will hurry along the need for rhodium plating (the act of adding a fresh layer of metal called rhodium to bring back the bright white appearance). The frequency varies from person to person how often a rhodium plating is needed. The factors are exposure to acids and chemicals, climate, and activity. Jewelry also becomes very dull do to the build up of soap scum and lotion. Just a word of thumb, your jewelry should be the last thing you put on in the morning and the first thing you remove at night.

Sports and Activity Harm can be done to your jewelry when you are playing sports or being physically active. When playing sports and wearing jewelry, you are potentially harming yourself as much as you maybe to your jewelry. It is very possible to snag a prong on a ring or bracelet, even the chain of a pendant. Also, you may bend your ring or snag your earring on a foreign object, all of which could harm you as much as your jewelry. These are not limited to just team sports, but also weight lifting as well as your career if it is physical such as construction or mechanics. Many industrial accidents could be avoided if jewelry were removed during work hours.

Housework Housework is negative for your jewelry just the same as showering with your jewelry. The household chemicals are just as, if not more so, damaging to stones and settings. Also, the physical aspect of housework could put you in harms way if you are wearing jewelry and cleaning. Jewelry may catch or snag on something around the house while you are distracted with your task.

Just Remember: Your jewelry should be the last thing you put on the in the morning and the first thing you remove at night.