METHOD OF USE

As specialist manufacturers of fine polishes to clean, restore and enhance precious metals, we recommend this Cleaning Plate for the fast, efficient and effortless cleaning of various metals and even some non metallic products such as ceramic and glass.

Within only 5 minutes, light tarnish and stains disappear, without harming the object or the environment. No abrasives, solvents, phosphates or ammonia are used with this method of cleaning.

After use, simply wash, rinse and dry the Cleaning Plate, ready for re-use. Use the plate in it's present shape and size for large objects or to clean many small items in one go. For use inside tea/coffee pots, thermos flasks, glass or ceramics, the plate may be cut or simply folded to the required size. Add water and soda as per point 3 below and allow 15/20 minutes cleansing time. Lightly brush, then wash the object and rinse very well.

	This ceramic tea pot has become stained with normal use. Cleaning is usually a long and tiresome job. NO LONGER ! Use Holland Hallmark Cleaning Plate and it will do the job for you, without effort and in no time at all.
	Here we see a folded Cleaning Plate inserted in the tea pot. Two dessert spoons of household soda have been added and hot water to fill the pot. You can see from the bubbles on the top of the water, that the plate and  soda are reacting to clean the item.
	After about 15 to 20 minutes, just brush firmly through the teapot and you will find that the sticky film of tea stain will come off very easy. Then wash and rinse well and the tea pot is clean again, ready for it's next use.

This Cleaning Plate is fantastic for quickly cleaning jewelry, gold rings, bracelets, chains, ear rings etc. excellent for both gold as well as silver jewelry. Jewelry gets dull and dirty through the touch with our skin. The Cleaning Plate will bring the sparkle back to your jewelry.

The Cleaning Plate is NOT for use with items which are lacquered, or objects with antique patina. Also NOT for objects made with cloth, wood, leather etc. Jewelry may be cleaned with this Cleaning Plate, but NO ITEMS CONTAINING soft -, artificial - or glued stones. Hard stones such as diamonds, in a proper setting present no problem.

The cleaning time should NOT exceed 5 minutes, except when cleaning glass or ceramics (then it should be 15 to 20 minutes), otherwise the reaction will  be reversed. In the event of reversal, re-start the process with clean hot water and new soda.

METHOD OF USE

The Cleaning Plate should ONLY be used with HOUSEHOLD SODA. Make sure that all objects to be cleaned, are free of loose dirt and grease.

1. Use a clean NON-METAL (plastic / glass) container.
   Place the Cleaning Plate on the bottom of the container.
2. Pour in enough hot (not boiling) water for the items you want to clean, to be fully submerged.
3. Stir in, one dessertspoon of HOUSEHOLD SODA per liter water.
4. Place the items to be cleaned onto the Cleaning Plate.
   The objects must be completely submerged.
5. Many objects may be cleaned at the same time, as long as the objects are touching the Cleaning Plate, or are in contact with other objects which are touching the Cleaning Plate. Do NOT clean objects of different types of metal together. Replace the water / soda mixture after each clean.
6. Allow 5 minutes maximum for the removal of the tarnish from metal objects, and 15 to 20 minutes or more to remove stains from ceramics or glass. For quick and best results with heavy tarnish and stains, lightly brush the objects while under water.
7. After cleaning, rinse the objects well in clean, warm water. Immediately thoroughly dry and buff for a beautiful shine.

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When cleaning miniatures, use a brush to help along the cleaning process and when drying, use a hair dryer to finally, thoroughly dry the items.