Sterling Silver has an oxidation property that makes it harmful as a body piercing, particularly when a piercing is healing. Iron not only rusts easily but also reacts very easily and can cause severe reactions. They can cause allergic reactions and infections, or even cause the body to completely reject the piercing.
Get your body piercing supplies here at Body Shock for the highest quality of metals. Niobium Being a low toxicity material, niobium is also soft and malleable. Stainless steel is an excellent choice material in the body jewelry production industry because it is abundant, has a high resistance to corrosion, easily malleable and most importantly relatively cheaper than most other options for body jewelry source material.
However, present in stainless steel is the alloy Nickel which gives stainless steel its characteristic resistance to rust and corrosion that is known to induce and potentiate allergy reactions. Although all grades of stainless steel contain Nickel, high-end body jewelry makes use of a refined variant which either has an extremely low nickel content or has been sufficiently polished to give a mirror finish that efficiently mitigates the allergenic properties of Nickel.
It is this sort of steel that reputable companies employ in the production of their body jewelry. One other downside of stainless steel is that it a higher tendency to accumulate or disperse heat than the other two metal classes.
What this translates to in daily usage is that body jewelry made of stainless steel has the tendency to be hotter in the summer and colder in winter than those made from titanium and gold. Although most of its commercially available forms are implant compliant, the recommended grade for use in body jewelry is the titanium 6AI4V ELI variant. Because it contains no nickel, there have been very few incidences of allergic reactions. Titanium can also be anodized to give produce different color shades and gamut giving it an edge in the customizability department as well.
The major drawback for titanium is its cost, pound for pound it is more expensive than stainless steel, this price difference is, however, negligible except you are looking to purchase a very large jewelry piece.
Of all elements, gold is one of the most chemically inert and biocompatible naturally occurring material. So, jewelry made from a biocompatible plastic may be the way to go. The same goes for people seeking a substitute for metal jewelry because of sensitivity or budget concerns. If you can drop the cash, platinum piercings are a safe and more expensive alternative to titanium piercings — if you can find them. Body jewelry made from this precious metal can be hard to come by because platinum is expensive and not as easy to work with as other materials.
When it comes to initial piercings, there are some materials that should be avoided because they can increase the likelihood of having an allergic reaction, poor healing, and rejection.
This goes for gold overlay or gold vermeil jewelry, which are just other terms for gold-plated. Even if the jewelry is coated in 14 karat gold or higher, the gold is simply a thin coating over a metal base made of different alloys, including nickel.
Sterling silver is made primarily of silver, but it does contain other metals usually copper. Those other metals can tarnish and cause skin irritation and staining. The higher you go, the softer the gold. The softer the gold, the more prone it is to nicks and scratches that can irritate your skin and damage tissue. Low karat gold contains higher amounts of other metals, including nickel and copper. Once a piercing is fully healed, quality materials are still important, but you can mix things up and relax a little.
Sticking with titanium jewelry, even after the initial piercing, will spare you an itchy, scaly red rash aka contact dermatitis. Here are a few other things to keep in mind, regardless of the material you choose going forward:.
Titanium piercings may cost a bit more than jewelry made from other materials, but the payoff is a reduced risk of complications. Adrienne Santos-Longhurst is a Canada-based freelance writer and author who has written extensively on all things health and lifestyle for more than a decade.
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