|
Tattoo ink
In one of your responses you said that tattoo inks were "really, really horrible".
Well, you sparked my curiosity! How are they horrible?
[ ]
Want to answer more questions in the Health & Fitness category?
Maybe give some free advice about: Health?
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.
]
More Questions: |