Cleaning a bronze figure
Even a bronze figure will gather dust or tarnish over time, so you should clean it. You can use very simple home remedies so that the figure shines in new splendor again.
What you need:
- high-proof alcohol from the pharmacy
- Soapy water
- spirit
- Cotton cloth
- chalk
- citric acid
- Baking soda
- Household vinegar
- salt
Clean the bronze figure with home remedies
- If you want to clean a bronze figure that has numerous fingerprints, for example, you can use the metal rub with a cloth that you have previously moistened with high-percentage alcohol. Then the metal shines again in a new shine.
- You can also make a soapy solution into which you add a few dashes of alcohol. Leave the bronze figure in that for a good half an hour bath linger and then rinse it off with clean water. To make the figure shine again, rub it with chalk, which you can then remove with a dry cotton cloth.
Further cleaning options
- You can safely use citric acid to clean a bronze figure. Put the figure in a bowl with citric acid and leave that Home remedies act for some time (half an hour). After that, dry the item and then buff it with baking soda.
- Finally, a mixture of household vinegar and a little table salt also has a cleaning effect on the metal. Simply place the item in a bowl, pour the vinegar over it and mix in the table salt. You will quickly see how impurities dissolve and the figure shines in new splendor.
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