Cleaning
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Wednesday December 19th, 2007 @ 2:00 AM
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Suggestions for best cleaning solutions/methods for jewelry at home (both stainless and acrylic)?
Thanks so much!!
Home Sterilization Methods for Stainless Steel or Acrylic: ZERO
At Home Cleaning Solutions/Methods for Stainless Steel: Wash with Anti-Bacterial soap, rinse well, soak in isopropyl alcohol for a couple minutes then rinse well before re-inserting.
At Home Cleaning Soltuions/Methods for Acrylic: Wash with Anti-Bacterial soap and rinse well. Any other solutions with alcohol base will crack/breakdown the acrylic, so theres really nothing you can do with it other than wash with anti-bacterial soap and then rinse it off well.
Hope that helps.
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Thanks!
Abbie on December 19th, 2007 at 3:36 amThere are sterilisation methods for stainless but none for acrylic. The following method works for stainless but will fail on acrylic owing to its chemical structure and comparative porosity.
Make a 5% solution of commercially available household bleach and soak the item for about five minutes. After soaking, clean the item by gentle rubbing with your finger tips for at least ten minutes under running warm water. It will still smell like bleach for a number of days.
Bleach (various chlorine compounds or mixtures) kills almost everything. The 5% solution is commonly used in medical sterile areas (moreso in the past) and is also known to corrupt / destroy DNA.
The downside of the bleach process is that if there is any trace of that material on the item when it is inserted / reinserted that any flora (bacteria, etc) in the piercing / fistula will be potentially killed. This includes beneficial flora (good bacteria etc) as well as the bad guys.
HTH.
Anon.
User on January 21st, 2008 at 5:21 amStainless steel: dunk the entire thing in 70% ethanol, holding it with metal tweezers. Touch the piece to a flame BRIEFLY, just enough to ignite it. Don’t hold it in the other flame. (Ethanol burns off cleanly, whereas flames from other sources - e.g. candles, lighters, stoves - can leave residues.)
70% ethanol is a good general-purpose sterilant. The purpose of flaming it is to get rid of the ethanol, it’s not the fire alone that sterilizes.
Anon: As far as open wounds are concerned, there are no “good bacteria”.
Xenobiologista on August 4th, 2008 at 8:36 pmLeave a Comment