How to clean a citrine ring

Citrine is a beautiful gemstone, transparent in gold or yellow color. If you have special passion for color yellow, a citrine ring is inevitably a part of your jewelry collection. A citrine ring is not only lovely but also sturdy, available to daily wearing. A citrine ring can get dirty, and you should learn how to clean a citrine ring. Here are some tips.
1. Before you go to bed, fill a small bowl with jeweler’s ammonia solution, and soak the ring in it overnight. Jeweler’s ammonia is gentler than regular ammonia, and you can mix it with some water to make the solution weaker. Ammonia has the potential of brighten the gemstone and make it shine again.
2. Next morning when you wake up, rinse citrine ring with warm water. Rinse it thoroughly so that you can remove all the ammonia solution off the ring.
3. Take a soft-bristle toothbrush and scrub the ring gently. Handle it carefully and make sure the toothbrush touch every little corner of the ring, especially in the prongs and setting part. Use gentle, circular motions rather than scrub hard back and forth. Rinse the ring with warm water again to get all the dirt and grime off the ring.
4. Dry the ring with soft cloth. Don’t let them dry naturally by the air, for air dry will leave spot on them.
Follow the instructions above, and you will get a shining citrine ring. If you wear your citrine ring often, you need to clean it regularly so that it can preserve the beauty and brilliance.