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In one of your responses you said that tattoo inks were "really, really horrible".
Well, you sparked my curiosity! How are they horrible? (link)
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If I can find an on-line friend of mine, she's another chemist... one of her "labmates" was working on some research on tattoo inks - it started as mere curiosity, and turned into some very interesting work - there are nearly NO regulations on the quality of the inks used for tattoos. What they found chemically - from both organic compounds and heavy metals, was disturbing. Many heavy metal are well known for being linked to causing cancer - and many of these inks have way more than just a little bit of them. Also, I believe they mentioned that some of the organic compounds were not exactly things you'd really want in contact with your skin, much less injected into your skin. I mean, think about it - tattoo's don't fade because they wear away... they fade because they are slowly absorbed through the skin. And certain metals can actually pass quite readily through the skin.
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I suppose some comparative research studying rates of cancer in people with tattoos is in order, then! I wonder if the presence of these metals would actually lead to a noticeable correlation in such studies?
-Saint_gasoline
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