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Entity shares how to clean earrings, how to sterilize earrings and how to clean jewelry like a pro!

We’ve all been there. You look at yourself in the mirror and realize you can’t remember the last time you cleaned your earrings. Then, the questions hit you: What’s the right way to clean earrings? Do you have any earring cleaning solution left? What about using rubbing alcohol vs hydrogen peroxide?

Don’t panic. Luckily, we have all the info you need on how to clean earrings. Here are the four easy steps you should always take to clean your jewelry!

1 Keep track of your cleaning habits.

When you’re learning how to clean jewelry, it’s important to remember when and why you should clean your earrings in the first place. To sum up the risks in one word: infection. Not only will regularly cleaning your earrings keep them looking bright and shiny, but it will help keep your ears healthy too.

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If you’re wondering how to clean your earrings after piercing, follow these same steps but don’t take your earrings out. Instead, just rotate the earring with your fingers and clean around it (and under if you can) with a cotton ball or other soft material (more on that later). It’s especially important to clean your earrings right after they’ve been pierced. Because your ear holes are still healing, they’re especially prone to infection.

So, clean your earrings regularly (if not daily). If you start having signs of infection like redness, swelling or tenderness at your ear piercings, talk to your doctor.

2 Wash those hands!

Now that you know why you should clean, it’s time to learn how to clean earrings. Before you do anything else, you need to wash your hands well with soap. This will remove any bacteria on your fingers that could spread to your ears.

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3 Get the right equipment

That was easy! Now the more complicated step of learning how to clean jewelry: finding the right equipment. If you have an earring cleaning solution, use that as your sanitizer. If you don’t, though, you have several cleaning options.

Two of the most common disinfectants are rubbing alcohol and hydrogen peroxide. How do you know to use rubbing alcohol vs hydrogen peroxide? Well, they are both are antiseptics and disinfectants. Rubbing alcohol is typically used for removing bacteria from the skin or medical tools while hydrogen peroxide can work as a bleaching agent and stain remover. So, while you may not use rubbing alcohol to get rid of stains, you can use either as a disinfectant on your earrings.

Once you’ve picked your sanitizer, you need to grab a cotton pad or soft cloth to use for the cleaning. If your earring has a lot of grime on it, you might also want to get a soft toothbrush for scrubbing. When first learning how to sterilize earrings, though, it’s important that you aren’t too rough. Don’t use a brush with hard bristles or you could damage the jewelry. If you’re cleaning an antique or fragile earring, skip the brush altogether.

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The last tip on how to clean earrings? Don’t do it over the sink! Instead, clean your jewelry over a flat surface or in a bowl. Clean earrings are no good if you’ve dropped one down the sink.

4 Wipe your earrings and jewelry clean.

Finally, the step you’ve probably been waiting for: actual instructions on how to clean jewelry. Now that you’ve gotten the right cleaning supplies and know you need to clean your earrings regularly, this step is quite simple. If you can’t take out your earrings (like when you’ve just gotten your ears pierced), dip the cotton ball in your cleaning solution and rub it around (and under) your earrings as much as you can.

If you can remove your earrings, do. Wipe the front and back of your earrings with the cotton pad. You can also lightly scrub grimy areas with the toothbrush as needed. Some experts even suggest filling a small bowl with hydrogen peroxide and letting your earrings soak in there for ten to twenty minutes (or overnight if extremely dirty). Then let your earrings air-dry on a paper towel before wearing or storing them!

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As always, you should use your best judgment when deciding how to clean earrings that are especially old or valuable. For instance, some sites advise washing gemstone earrings with an ammonia solution or soaking silver earrings in a baking soda and aluminum foil solution. The piece of advice you should always follow, though? Learn how to clean jewelry and do it regularly – not only for your earrings but also for your ear health.

So, the next time you look in the mirror, ask yourself when you last cleaned your earrings…and get cleanin’ ASAP if you can’t remember!

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