Fortunately, some of the best bronze cleaners are household ingredients! Cleaning bronze can take anywhere from a few minutes to overnight. Using boiling water, vinegar, lemon juice, salt, flour, or a combination of these, you can get your bronze looking clean and pristine once again.
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- How do you clean brass hinges on cabinets? Another option is to make a paste of equal parts salt, flour, and white vinegar. Apply the paste to the brass and let sit for up to an hour. Rinse with warm water and buff dry. An alternative natural cleaning combination is salt and lemon.
- Can bronze be polished? While you can buy metal polish for bronze, it's easy to make polish out of home ingredients like baking soda, vinegar, salt, lemon juice, toothpaste, and ketchup. Buff your chosen polish onto the bronze item with small, circular motions, leave it on the item for up to an hour, then wipe and rinse it away.
- How can I lighten my burnt skin? Almond oil and lemon juice Lemon juice is a natural bleaching agent known to lighten skin. Take three-four drops of extra virgin almond oil in a bowl. Add two-three drops of lemon juice to it. Mix well and gently massage it on your scars and marks.
- How do you remove green tarnish from metal? Experts also recommend using baking soda in a paste and sprinkling on salt and pouring on lemon juice, or other acidic liquids like vinegar. Green corrosion can also be removed with lemon juice, baking soda, salt and vinegar. Be sure to use a lighter hand when cleaning copper, as it is prone to scratching.
- How do you clean heavily corroded brass? An alternative natural cleaning combination is salt and lemon. Cut a lemon in half and remove the seeds. Coat the cut half of the lemon with table salt and rub it over the surface of the brass, re-coating the lemon with salt as needed. Once you've covered the entire surface, buff to a shine with a clean, dry cloth.
- "How do you clean an old bronze coin?" To be safe, after cleaning with vinegar or lemon juice, it is best to soak the coin in distilled water with a little baking soda added for a week. (Never use vinegar or lemon juice to clean bronze coins.) Silver coins can also be cleaned by placing them in an aluminum can filled with a baking soda and water mix.