Gold is a soft metal. For this reason, you should be very careful and gentle while cleaning gold. But, at the same time, it is considered as an ornament that needs to be polished very soon. Meanwhile, there are materials that should not be used to clean gold.
Chlorine
Chlorine, especially at high temperatures used in hot tubs or hot tubs, is harmful if it comes into contact with gold for a long time and causes the gold to change color. Does not matter. If you use chlorine daily to clean your home environment, do not use your gold jewelry during this time.
How to turn yellow gold into white gold
If you take a look at the structure of yellow gold and white gold, you will see that white gold is yellow gold combined with palladium or nickel and plated with rhodium. Rhodium makes gold white. For this reason, you can leave it to the experts to whiten your yellow gold. Professionals whiten your yellow gold by adding a rhodium coating.
But, before you take any action, it is better to know that even whitening is not a permanent issue. Rather, it is durable and after some time your yellow gold will appear again. Even if you want to have your yellow gold again, you can ask a repairer to return it to its original color with rhodium polishing.