The Reason Metal Rings Can Stain

If you’ve ever bought cheap jewelry that turns your skin green I’m sure you’ve been curious why that happens. Basically, there is a reaction caused by basic metals to people who buys cheap jewelry. Skin greening can happen to some faster than others<, though, because our individual chemical makeups are different.

Truth be told expensive jewelry can have the same effect- because it’s not one hundred percent pure; no matter how much it costs. Platinum rarely reacts with skin so no worries if you own platinum jewelry.

To keep gold jewelry making you look green make sure that you don’t have made from cheap metal and then plated – the base metal might be cheap and then covered with gold that will wear off. If you have solid gold jewelry spending the extra on 18 karat gold will lower your chances of green skin.

Copper jewelry will almost always turn your skin green and there isn’t a whole lot you can do about that.

Stay away from wearing jewelry when you’re sweating a lot it can increase the green skin effect you can also get a special coating put on – to minimize the amount of green reaction your skin has. If you can find something to keep the reaction to a minimum you can wear inexpensive jewelry whenever you want.

Don’t forget- your skin turning green is a harmless reaction. It’s just a skin reaction and not an allergy.

Allergies will turn your skin red plus it could also make your skin feel itchy and inflamed. Which is a far cry from the green skin that you see from jewelry. If you do show signs of allery stop wearing the jewelry. If it’s only turning your skin green you can certainly continue wearing it as long as you like just be sure to keep the skin clean so its not ugly.

All in all coating it is generally your best choice.