L'argent réagit au soufre. Si vous savez quelque chose sur cet élément, c'est partout. En fait, les humains utilisent des sulfures depuis des années! C'est dans l'air que nous respirons, sol, produits de beauté courants, fumée, engrais, aliments, essence, pollution…etc.. La liste est si longue qu'il n'y a aucun moyen de la couvrir dans un blog, but trust me, c'est partout. Some locations (ex. the beach, lakes and urban areas) have higher quantities in the air and so silver tarnish happens even quicker in those locations.
You can take many common-sense steps to store your jewelry securely and delay tarnishing. Read more in our article entitled How to Keep Sterling Silver from Tarnishing – Protecting Jewelry.
Heureusement, you can clean, polish and then protect silver to slow down the process, and I’ll tell you how. Just be careful with any jewelry that contains stones, pearls or glass. Metal cleaners can damage some of these substances so do additional research before cleaning them or spot clean the metal areas only.