Jewellery Care provides guidelines on caring for and storing your jewellery. A jeweller would clean your jewellery with a polisher , an ultrasonic cleaner and a steamer . Polishing When polishing your jewellery, two steps are used depending on how badly it's scratched. Polishing compounds are applied to buffs on a polishing machine. A first step for badly scratched jewellery is polishing with tripoli.
Tripoli is a grease-based compound that comes in cake form and contains a microscopic abrasive.
There are several types of tripoli, some greaser than others, and some more aggressive than others. Your jeweller will have a preference for which tripoli to use based on personal experience. Ask three jewellers which tripoli is best and you could easily get three different answers. A second step is polishing your jewellery with rouge, after it has been polished with tripoli or if it is not badly scratched. Rouge is a grease-based compound that comes in cake form in a variety of colours and contains no abrasive.