Tanning Lotion | Handmade Crystal Jewelry Tips

Handmade crystal jewelry is beautiful. Generally, the people making the jewelry don’t actually make the crystal itself, they just make the settings and line all the different pieces of the artwork together to make a beautiful crystal jewelry piece. Sometimes you’ll find people that are devoted enough to the craft to make handmade crystal jewelry down to the point where they actually make the crystals as well. Generally, handmade crystals are usually colorful beads or things like that. The tiny cut crystals are usually from factories that are equipped to generate perfect little crystals.

‘Crystal’ in jewelry is glass with a high lead content. Before you freak out, realize that it is not lead that is going to do anything to you. It is molecularly bound into the rest of the glass, so you’ll be fine. There’s no way for the lead to come out of the crystals and ‘get you’. It’s a little like how salt is made out of sodium and chloride, and while chloride by itself is poisonous, strong enough that they used it for a weapon in World War 1, you’re not going to get chloride poisoning from eating things with salt on them. It’s still not a good idea to suck on crystals that are used for jewelry, but that is because of coatings that are put on many of them that are used to make them reflect light.

If you get crystal jewelry, be sure to keep it clean. If you’re sure they’re crystals and not rhinestones, then you can wipe them with baby wipes or use a solution of three fourths cups of water, one tablespoon of rubbing alcohol and half a tablespoon of dish soap. Put those ingredients into a watertight container and mix it up. Then put your jewelry in it for a few minutes. Then take it out and rinse it off. The combination of chemicals will get rid of the film that is what is making your crystals less shiny.