Mixing tattoo inks is now more popular than before because tattoo artists and customers are now more aware of what they put under their skin. People now know that the commercially mixed paints could contain different types of toxins and heavy metals that can harm the body and cause different ailments.

The commercially mixed tattoo inks are based on metal salts and some of them contain car paints. The main ingredients in such kind of paints are cobalt, ultra marine, manganese and iron. Most of these metals can cause heavy metal toxicity and they tend to accumulate in body. Even though we know that the amount entering the body is very small and the pigment is just found under the skin but we need to know if we can use something safer and more efficient or not. Tattoo ink is a part of a big industry and many companies are now producing such inks. Each company produces different types of inks and each company tends to preserve its recipe as a secret and does not reveal it to the public. The law helps them do so because there are no regulations that oblige the
company to disclose the ingredients on the container package. Also the company is free to use any kind of cosmetic or painting colors because it is legal to do this.

This causes some tattoo artists prefer to mix their own inks at home without buying anything from the tattoo stores except the powder that gives the color. This is a simpler solution so they can know most of the components they are using. It is a very good idea to know what is going inside your body instead of just using ready-made or dispersed inks with vague ingredients. The most popular way that tattoos artists use to mix their own inks is simple but it needs a lot of practicing to control the ingredients and know the exact amount of each of them. This should be done over a period of time and the tattoo artist should keep track of the amounts so he can find out which mixture was more successful.

The question remains, how safe are tattoo inks mixed by tattoo artists? How many have a sterile environment to do such work? How many are trained in techniques to avoid or remediate contamination? Are these toxic components are real health risk? How will they react in the body over a period of time?

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I have so much information on tattoo inks that it would take several posts to include it all. First and foremost I will say that from a chemistry perspective tattoo inks are not inks at all, they are pigments in a carrier solution. Huh?Simply put it is kind of like adding water to finger paints. However in this case the pigments are typically metal, plastic, or vegetable based while the carrier portions is more than likely some alcohol solution.

There are two considerations the first is the potential toxic nature of the ‘inks’ and the other is the fact that there is no regulation of ink composition. While your tattoo artist is a dynamic artist, he/she is probably no a chemist. You should be concerned here because many tattoo artists mix their own inks. Is this occurring in a sterile environment? Highly unlikely.

It would seem that many more people would come down with illnesses related to tattoos but it just does not seem to be the big of a deal. Well consider this, the human body is resilient on many levels and does a pretty good job of keeping us healthy. Still the issue here is the prolonged exposure to the impure or toxic components of tattoo inks. So what happens in year 5, 10, or 20? As for the recent wave of tattoo enthusiasts it may be too soon to tell. Some have found out the hard way that they are in fact allergic to materials in the inks. What do you do when you are allergic to something that is under the skin. Even the process of removal has the potential to make you even sicker as the inks are now passed through the lymph node system and expelled…

There will be a much more in depth post on tattoo inks forthcoming but I would encourage you to talk to your tattoo artists about the inks they use and where they come from. Ask them about the environment where they are stored and if there is a standard for sterilization.

Perhaps this is another reason tattoo removal is on the rise like never before.