Tattoo Inks

Tattoo ink are used to make tattoos and the tattoo inks are available in a variety of colors that can be thinned ot to mix them together to produce diffrent colors and diffrent shades. Most of the professional tattoo artists purchase pre-made inks but some tattoo artists mix teir own colors by using the dry pigment and a carrier. Tattoo ink is generally permanent and the tattoos are difficult and painful to remove. The recently developed inks are considered to be remove easily. Professional inks may be made from iron oxides (rust), metal salts, plastics.

Manufacturers are not required to reveal their ingredients or conduct trials and recipes may be proprietary. Professional inks may be made from iron oxides (rust), metal salts, plastics. Homemade or traditional tattoo inks may be made from pen ink, soot, dirt, blood, or other ingredients. The most typical solvent is ethyl alcohol or water, but denatured alcohols, methanol, rubbing alcohol, propylene glycol, and glycerine are also used. When an alcohol is used as part of the carrier base in tattoo ink or to disinfect the skin before application of the tattoo, it increases the skin’s permeability, helping to transport more chemicals into the bloodstream. While tattoo ink is generally very painful and laborious to remove, tattoo removal being quite involved, a recently introduced ink has been developed to be easier to remove by laser treatments than traditional inks.