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What is the best metal for piercings?
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What is the best metal for piercings?
Thereare several metals that the jewelry can be made out of. However, whenit comes to piercing jewelry you want to ensure you are getting thevery best material for your new piercing. When looking for the bestmetal for earring piercing this is the same as for any otherpiercings as well. This means that if you are going to offer or thinkabout offering your customers body piercing jewelry or earrings youshould ensure that it is made of the very best metals. There areseveral options to choose from which are of surgical grade quality.
Stainless Steel is one of those options. This metal does contain nickel, which is usually the metal that people have an allergy too and causes skin irritation. While nickel is still present in this metal, some people do get irritated by stainless steel. To know if your stainless steel is of a surgical grade you will be looking for 316L stainless steel.
Othermetals for piercings
Titaniumis another metal that is commonly used in piercing jewelry. When youare looking for the best metal for piercings, this one is anotheroption. Of course, the titanium must be of the surgical type as well.When they call it surgical, that means that it is okay to use it onthe body. The metal has gone through a treatment process so that thevarious alloys are encapsulated. As with stainless steel, Titaniumbody jewelrycan be bent into the various designs rather easily.
Niobiumis another metal for piercings. This is a softer metal that doesn’treact to cleaning agents, bodily fluids and oxygen which make this agreat metal option as well.
Gold(That’s nickel free.) is a great option as well. Gold is agreat one of the best materials for piercings. However, it isone of the more expensive options as well. That is why we offer ourstainless steel in gold tone as an option as well. This givesyou the look of gold without the high costs. Gold can come in bothgold and silver tones. However, for body jewelry, you will want toensure the material doesn’t include nickel.
Platinum is the most expensive but makes amazing body jewelry. This is the best metal for piercings but it is not very affordable. It is also the very best for daily wear. If you like to wear your jewelry long term without removing it then platinum is the way to. Platinum requires less maintenance than the other materials and is very hard, similar to stainless steel.
Weprefer 316L Stainless Steel
Hereat Salamander jewelry, we like to use 316L Stainless steel for mostof our body jewelry designs. It is one of the most inexpensivematerials for body jewelry piercings and earrings but yet effective.This material can be worn by most people, including those with anickel allergy with ease. 316L stainless steel is very easy to cleanand keep clean. We often refer to 316L stainless steel as “SurgicalSteel”.
Surgicalsteel is probably the most commonly used in manufacturing piercings.We work closely with our metal vendors to ensure our metals are safeto use in our body jewelry designs. Shouldyou have any questions regarding our body jewelry product line,ask!
Weare happy to assist in any way we can.
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