Top Tips to Help You Care for Your Jewellery 

If you care and treat your precious jewellery well it will bring you pleasure for many years to come. We recommend that you have your jewellery professionally cleaned and inspected at least once a year but are also some simple things that you can do at home to help your precious jewellery look its very best for even longer. Here are our top tips for caring for your jewellery:

In short: Care for fine jewellery by storing pieces separately in soft pouches (diamonds scratch other gems), cleaning weekly with warm soapy water, removing rings before exercise and household chores, and booking annual professional prong inspections (£25-£40). Pearls and opals (Mohs 2.5-6.5) need extra care: no perfume, no ultrasonic. UK 2025 average jewellery insurance runs £40-£80 per £3,928 of declared value.

Always store pieces of jewellery separately

Different gemstones have different hardness and can easily scratch or knock each other if stored together so think about how you store items of jewellery. Keeping your pieces of jewellery in separate soft-lined compartments is the ideal method of storage so try to keep the boxes and packaging that it came in as this is the easiest and often the best way to protect your jewellery from dust and damage. This will not prevent silver from oxidising, so possibly consider storing items in airtight bags to minimise this, while silica gel packs will absorb moisture and sulphur in the air that can cause jewellery to lose its shine. All Jewellery should always be stored away from direct sunlight, damp, and extremes of heat or cold. Wrap gold, silver, precious and semi-precious items in acid-free tissue or cotton to keep them away from dust and moisture. Take extra care with pearls, which are soft and vulnerable to scratches and other damage. Always ensure that any fastenings are closed so items do not tangle or catch each other.