Intercept Jewelry Care Blog
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Why Retailers Prefer Intercept Anti Tarnish Packaging
Ensuring your jewelry pieces maintain their sparkle and sheen requires not just any anti tarnish product, but one that contains high-performance Intercept Technology™.
Learn more about why our anti tarnish products are the best on the market:
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How To Celebrate National Jewel Day [Infographic]
Are you ready to celebrate National Jewel Day on March 13th with the above ideas? Whether you are going to buy new jewelry or simply wear your favorite earrings, necklace or bracelets, make sure you keep them protected all year long with the proper care products that fight against tarnish and corrosion. Check out our inventory of anti-tarnish paper, anti-tarnish strips and all of our other anti-tarnish products to protect all your precious metals. Anti-tarnish products neutralize the corrosive gases and particles that cause unsightly tarnish. When you place them in your jewelry box or other silver jewelry storage container, it creates a microenvironment that will keep your jewelry protected and shiny!
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Understanding and Interpreting Tarnish Test Results
When trying to decide on the proper anti tarnish tabs to use, jewelry retailers and manufacturers often conduct their own tarnish testing or contract out to laboratories that have the capabilities to conduct such testing. However, test results are often times misinterpreted, and in some cases, misleading. -
Tarnish & Corrosion - A Historical Flashback
Historical Flashback - 1795 Boston Time Capsule Opened
We go through life collecting memories, of times of people, sometimes all it takes is a part of a song, or the sight of some long forgotten trinket to allow memories to come cascading back into our conscience minds. Times capsules are nothing new, but what they do give us is a glimpse of a time gone by, insight into what the people who so tenderly put away their memorabilia considered important or worthy of being saved for later generations. We do not have them here to let us know why they saved particular items, but we are allowed new insights.
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The Five Bad “S” Words to Avoid Keeping Your Jewelry Safe from Tarnish
\We all have jewelry that we love and treasure; just as we most likely all have simpler pieces that we have sitting at the bottom of our jewelry box collecting dust. Regardless of how precious or invaluable the items in your jewelry collection are, there are particular ways to care for jewelry that everyone should know. It doesn’t matter how often we may wear a set of earrings, or how expensive the diamond necklace your husband bought you was or how old the wrist watch your Grandmother gave you when you were little is… most jewelry has history behind it—and preserving that history is important. Below is a list of the top five worst “S” words we want every jewelry owner to know in order to better protect your pieces and prevent tarnishing those special metals (and memories).
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The Truth About Tarnish
Do you know the truth about jewelry tarnish? Check out this reference guide to learn more about jewelry care and protection.
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Quality Assurance Tips for Preventing Tarnish
When working with silver jewelry, one of the biggest challenges is getting products, tarnish free, to their final destination while conforming to strict quality assurance guidelines set by retailers, and demanded by consumers. Whether that destination is the distributor, the retailer, or the consumer, there are certain precautions that should be followed to avoid customer returns, delays, and related fees that some retailers may charge their vendors.
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How Do Anti-Tarnish Strips Work?
If you value your jewelry or other fine metal work then anti-tarnish strips are a necessity. Anti-tarnish strips can protect jewelry and prevent tarnish, even if the items are stored for many years. But how do anti-tarnish strips work and what should you look for when you buy them?
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Easy Tricks to Keep your Silver Dinnerware Tarnish-Free
With the recent passing of what is known as "engagement season" – the time around Christmas and Valentine's Day when people tend to propose to their significant others – many of you have probably gotten started on a gift registry or received some lovely anniversary gifts. If you received silver dinnerware, of course you want to keep it looking shiny and new.
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How to Keep Your Silverware and Flatware Free of Tarnish
Mostly everyone who is engaged in maintaining the quality of their home, their furniture and appliances take careful consideration into home improvement. You might be content with the quality of your interior, but are you concerned about the condition of your flatware? How would you like to have dinnerware that is both clean and tarnish-free? After all, tarnish is not necessarily the most attractive image you’d wish to see on your flatware. Have you ever found a spoon in your drawer which you had to switch for a new one since there was a bit of a tarnish overload? You’re not alone.
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Anti tarnish charcoal paper
There are several types of anti tarnish paper and film that have been widely used in an attempt to protect silver and electronics from corrosion (aka tarnish). One particular type of anti tarnish paper is a carbon based product that is also referred to as charcoal paper. And while this charcoal paper is not totally effective for tarnish prevention, its lack of effectiveness is due to some inherent properties common to these carbon based papers. Let’s take a look at one of these properties, its ability to absorb corrosive gases:
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Anti tarnish platings and coatings
In our last blog we discussed how packaging can cause silver to tarnish and what to look our for with your packaging so it does not create tarnishing issues. This brings us to the next subject in this seriesm anti tarnish plating and coating for tarnish prevention.
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