Posted by Troks in If you’ve ever had a piece of jewelry that turns your skin green I’m sure you’ve wondered what the cause is. Basically ; your skin is reacting to the metal in the jewelry to just about everyone who wears inexpensive jewelry. This occurs to some faster than others; though, because everyone’s composition is just a little bit different.
Truth be told expensive jewelry can turn people’s skin green<, because even the expensive stuff isnt pure- regardless of gold or silver content. Platinum is a safe choice as it almost never reacts with skin so not to fear if you own platinum jewelry.
If you have gold jewelry and want to stop it from making your skin green make sure that you don’t have made from cheap metal and then plated – it has only a very fine coating of gold over top of a base metal and that coating wears off very quickly. For 100% gold jewelry thats not rinsed or plated switching to eighteen karat options will help keep green spots from showing up on your skin. Copper will react with skin and there isn’t a whole lot you can do about that.
Stay away from wearing jewelry when you’re sweating a lot because that can speed up the reaction between your skin and the metal you can also get a special coating put on – to guard your skin from the reaction. If you can find something to keep the reaction to a minimum you should be able to wear your jewelry quite often.
Don’t forget<, your skin turning green is a harmless reaction. It’s simply a reaction and not an allergic reaction.
Allergies (such as those to nickel) causes reddening and also will make your skin inflamed and itchy. Which is a far cry from a green skin reaction. If you do show signs of allery stop wearing the jewelry. Green skin shouldnt scare you ore keep you from wearing your favorite pieces you may just have to clean your skin more so it doesn’t look bad.
All in all applying a coating is probably the answer.