{"id":1649,"date":"2014-06-06T23:03:21","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T05:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pearlsonly.com\/blog\/ask-ms-elitou-can-i-polish-my-pearls-with-toothpaste\/"},"modified":"2024-08-25T12:29:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T18:29:05","slug":"ask-ms-elitou-can-i-polish-my-pearls-with-toothpaste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pearlsonly.de\/blog\/ask-ms-elitou-can-i-polish-my-pearls-with-toothpaste\/","title":{"rendered":"ASK MS. ELITOU:\u00a0 Can I polish my pearls with toothpaste?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Hello Ms. Elitou! I was given my Grandmother\u2019s pearls as an anniversary gift and I want to make them look as new as I can. I want to polish them with toothpaste like my other jewelry but I am not sure if they would be safe if I did that. What are your thoughts?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>-Aliza W.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hi Aliza! Thank you for reaching out! I am very happy that you asked this question because I believe many have the same thought when it comes to cleaning pearls.<\/p>\n<p>The answer is NO! It is very important to not use toothpaste on pearls, turquoise, vintage Bakelite, or vintage rhinestones, because they have softer surfaces and may get scratched.<\/p>\n<p>The best way to polish you pearls, yourself, is to rub them with a lint-free cloth that you dunk in warm water and mild soap.<\/p>\n<p>Hope this helps!<\/p>\n<p>-Ms. Elitou<\/p>\n<p>If you have any pearl related questions feel free to contact us on our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/login\/?next=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FPearlsOnly\" rel=\"external nofollow\">Facebook,<\/a>\u00a0and we will be sure to answer it as soon as possible!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Ms. Elitou! I was given my Grandmother\u2019s pearls as an anniversary gift and I want to make them look as new as I can. I want to polish them with toothpaste like my other jewelry but I am not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pearlsonly.de\/blog\/ask-ms-elitou-can-i-polish-my-pearls-with-toothpaste\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1520],"tags":[439,1033,105,1032,1031,4,142,486,1030,696],"class_list":["post-1649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pearlsonly","tag-advice","tag-comments","tag-ms-elitou","tag-pearl-advice","tag-pearl-toothpaste","tag-pearls","tag-question","tag-thoughts","tag-toothpaste","tag-vintage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pearlsonly.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/gemexplorerORG-e1402095756908.jpg?fit=800%2C576&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlsonly.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlsonly.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlsonly.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlsonly.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlsonly.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1649"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlsonly.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11548,"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlsonly.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions\/11548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlsonly.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlsonly.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlsonly.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlsonly.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}