Cleaning Your Skin and Body. 1  1. Try scrubbing your fingers with lemon juice once a day. The acidity of the lemon juice will help lift the stain over time, usually after a week of persistent cleaning. 2  2. Use potatoes to remove stains from skin. There is an enzyme in raw potato that helps slough away stains.
Thanks to their superior hardness and cultural value as stones for engagement rings, diamonds are arguably the most popular gemstone. Diamonds are more versatile than people might think, though, coming in a wider variety of colors than their iconic colorless form and serving as a great stone for everything from earrings to tie pins.
3. Excelsior Diamond: 995.20 carats. Found in 1893 in South Africa, this huge rock was cut into many smaller pieces. The largest gemstone cut from this famous diamond was only 69.68 carats, but many in the diamond industry believe that much larger diamonds could have been taken from the original stone.