Looking After Your Jewelry

Many factors can influence the condition of jewelry. Therefore, you should make sure that your jewelry is properly cleaned, repaired and stored. Take care to avoid extreme humidity or heat as this may cause tarnishing. This will keep them looking their best.

Care Instructions

Please follow these steps to ensure your beautiful jewelry lasts a lifetime.

Wearing
Silver jewelry will naturally tarnish over time. Always protect your jewelry from knocks, scratches, chemicals, sunlight and heat/cold to minimise these effects.

We recommend removing jewelry when you shower or bathe and particularly when on the beach, in the sea and in chlorinated water.
Avoid spraying perfume or applying creams directly onto your jewelry.
Keep away from extreme temperatures, humidity and sunlight, and avoid wearing your jewelry when using bleach.

Storing
To protect your jewelry, pieces should be individually placed in a pouch or within a soft lined box to stop them being scratched or tangled. Ideally store your jewelry in a dark, cool and dry place, and try to keep pieces apart, so that they don’t rub together or tangle up.

Cleaning

Metal
Using a soft, lint free cloth is an effective way to keep silver, 18K yellow and rose gold vermeil jewelry looking shiny and lustrous. A silver cleaner can also be used to clean sterling silver pieces. Ideally, store silver pieces in an airtight bag to help reduce tarnishing. Do not use tissue paper or paper towels to clean metal as they can cause scratching.

Gemstones
Since many gemstones are quite delicate, hot water, harsh chemicals and cleaners should be avoided at all times. We advise cleaning your precious stones with a clean, soft, damp cloth after wearing. Very porous stones such as turquoise and emeralds should be cleaned using an untreated, dry, soft cloth only. Do not use tissue paper or paper towels to clean gemstones as they can cause scratching.

Cord Bracelets
The best way to clean cords on our friendship bracelets is to occasionally wash the cord with a mild soap in lukewarm water.

Nickel
We do not add Nickel to Fervor Montreal Jewellery, however there can be trace amounts in some of the metals we use in our production which could lead to low levels being present in some of our pieces. These levels are tested regularly to ensure they are low enough that most people will not have a reaction. A small number of people who are hypersensitive may suffer a reaction.