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The Care & Feeding of Your Crystal Prisms…Part 1

To keep your fabulous sparkly prisms fabulous and sparkly, it’s a good idea to remove the layer of dust that inevitably settles from season to season. It’s an even better idea to keep the window clean so you get pure, unfettered sunlight streaming in to light up these faceted beauties so you can get the very best rainbow blasts possible.

What NOT to do, plus this is a real hassle:

(1) Don’t even think about putting your crystals in the dishwasher, it’s amazing how many people do this and wonder why their crystals turn into scratched and dented echoes of their former selves.
(2) Don’t ever use paper towels or Kleenex or toilet tissue on your prisms. These are paper products made up of tiny wood fibers that will scratch and dull your prisms over time.
(3) Don’t ever use solvents such as rubbing alcohol or worse, Benzine. Any fused coatings on the AB coated prisms will be destroyed. Also, that stuff reeks.
(4) Don’t be tempted to soak your prisms in sudsy water, then expect to drip, dry and massage clean without breaking at least one of your prisms; most likely your slippery prism will behave like a bar of soap and slip and slide itself to an early death by shattering on your hard counter or to tiny pieces all over your tile floor.

What is the best way to clean your prisms? Keep checking – I have the best advice I have ever found, but look for this wonderful advice in "Part II of the Care & Feeding of Your Prisms!" in this XinaCat blog. I am still testing this method out, but I will be reporting my XinaCat-approved prism cleaning solution shortly!

In the meantime, you can buy one of those really expensive Swarovski cleaning kits for $40.00….or you can save yourself the $40 and have it to get 2 or 3 prisms from XinaCat and still have really clean prisms….