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.
Record: The Worldâs Largest-Faceted Alexandrite. The Smithsonian Alexandrite was unearthed in Sri Lanka, and holds a cushion mixed cut. Typical of most alexandrite, the Smithsonian jewel is red and green in color, and weighs 65.08 carats. It is currently one of the rarest, and most valuable, jewels in the world.