The Cleanout and Maintenance of Dzi Beads

The Cleanout of Dzi Beads

Use a small bowl or tea cup to hold the warm water with Yushou salt, with 10 gram each time, and soak Dzi Beads in the water for 24 hours. Then use soft flannelette with no cotton to make Dzi Beads dry. The Yushou salt has a great influence on the manual handling Dzi Beads, making the part of Manual handling manifest. However, Yushou salt has no influence on the natural part. If washing the Dzi Beads with Yushou salt each month, it may remove the dead skin cells tissue, avoid the breeding of fungus and prevent the skin disease.

All the same, use a small bowl or tea cup to hold the solution of Yushou salt, putting Dzi Beads in the solution and soaking for half an hour, then use a small brush to brush everywhere of the Dzi Beads lightly, and moving it in the water, finally, use a handkerchief to dry it.

Bury the Dzi Beads with Yushou salt for 24 hours each time. But the manual handling ones should not be washed in this way.

The Maintenance of Dzi Beads

Use a towel to wipe the surface of Dzi Beads, for the purpose of cleaning the wax, dirty thing as well as polishing, about 2 t o3 hours each day, and last for 2 to 3 days.

As for polishing, you also may use a soft cotton cloth to coil for one week. It is normal to see marks on the cotton cloth, after one week, the color would fade away.

Leave the Dzi Beads alone for one week to dry itself, at the same time, there would form a maskant as a result of oxidation.

You may begin to turn around Dzi Beads in your hands, but do remember to keep your hands clean and dry. Do not forget the detail section. Keep turning around the Dzi Beads for half an hour everyday and after one or two weeks, you may feel that there is a feeling of sticky and block, that is because there is a layer of thin cover.

Then lay it aside for natural drying and hardening of the cover, this period is about one week.

Repeat the action of the fourth and fifth step for 5 or 6 times, about 3 months, and then you may find that the Dzi Beads be with nimbus and luster. If you had turned around it well, you even may see more strong reflection of light, some like that of glasses.

Remember not to be anxious to achieve quick success and get instant benefits, what you should do is to slow down and notice each detail section, maybe during this period, you may get a kind of joyful spirit