How To Clean Copper?

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To get your copper jewelry renewed here a set of simple tips. There are multiple known ways to clean copper. You can read through and decide which one suit you best.
Salt and Acid
Take a large fresh lemon and get it juiced. In the lemon juice add salt until you get a fine paste. With a piece of clean cotton cloth, rub the paste on your piece of copper ornament thoroughly. Concentrate on the stained areas. Once you feel the copper is clean enough, rinse off the salt and lemon paste and dry. After the copper has dried, polish. Ideally polish using beeswax for a shine that would last for long.
You can replace lemon juice with vinegar. Pouring the salt and vinegar solution over the copper is an option too. Or you could similarly make vinegar and salt paste to rub into your metallic jewelry until the tarnishing is removed completely.
As an alternative, fill a cup of white vinegar in a boiling pot and add a table spoon of salt. Place the copper ornament in the pot and leave it to boil. You will see the tarnishing come off as the vinegar boils. Once the copper ornament seems clearly washed up and satin free, take it out and rinse using soap and warm water. Leave to dry.
Ketchup: It may sound funny but ketchup works excellently as a copper cleaner. There is a good amount of vinegar and salt in ketchup. Tomato-paste itself in very acidic so the acid and salt mixture is naturally there. Apply a small film of ketchup over the copper and leave for some time. Rub it off as you rinse. You will notice your metallic jeweler clean and clear. Leave it to dry.
An Additional Note
The above procedures work fine with copper items other than jewelry such as coins and pots. For pots be careful as some copper pots also contain an amount of zinc. This could cause damage as a chemical reaction would result with zinc if you boil in vinegar as instructed. Once you start boiling your copper pot in vinegar and salt, stop immediately if the pot starts turning white.
For copper sinks, the brownish tarnish should be there so do not go for the methods advised above for other copper items. Instead was your sink with soap and water. If you want your sink to look shiny try wax or lacquer after you wash it thoroughly with soap and warm water.

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