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.
Rubies are the worldâs most expensive gemstones, the best Burmese rubies being valued more than an equivalent-sized flawless diamond. 1 The world record paid at auction for a ruby is U.S. $3.63 million in 1988 for a 15.97 carat Burmese ruby (U.S. $227,300 per carat).n our culture most attention is focused on the glamour of diamonds, but two colorful gemsârubies and sapphiresâare actually much rarer and more valuable. Godâs Word gives these two stones special attention. Indeed, rubies and sapphires are mentioned more often than diamonds.