How much paint really rests on your body when you tattoo: study

Color them surprised.

In a new study, German researchers were able to track how the baby’s liquid ingredients with tattooing in the body.

Scientists at the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, or BFR, were amazed to learn that only 20% of tattoo paint actually penetrates the skin – much less than previously thought. Most of the paint is expelled while the tattoo skin heals.

“The results of our study will make it possible to evaluate and evaluate the health risks of the tattoo more accurately in the future,” said Dr. Ines Schreiver from the BFR dermatotoxicology study center.

Professionals in Berlin Tattoo 24 study participants with various available commercial tattoo (14 black, 10 reds) with three “tracking” substances that researchers follow throughout the body.

Urine and blood samples were previously obtained, during tattoo sessions, which usually lasted 3½ hours.

Metabolits were discovered in the bloodstream shortly after the tattoos began. Researchers determined that substances are metabolized differently when injected compared to when swallowed.

One of the markers, in particular, was metabolized into other compounds more often than expected, which was attributed to certain enzymes in the skin cells.

The researchers monitored the amount of tattoo paint used at each session by weighing the paint bottles before and after and examining the remnants of the paint left on the needles, clothes and filthy gloves.

So they were able to understand that only around a color fish ended up on the skin.

In previous research, BFR reported that tattoo paint pigments can accumulate in the lymph nodes, potentially exposing the immune system to chemicals that may be considered toxic.

Because the pigments are insoluble, they make up the strong part of the tattoo paint, so they were not at the center of the new study.

Findings – published last month in the newspaper’s toxinology archives – comes nearly a third of American adults have a tattoo, including 22% that have more than one.

The US Food and Drug Administration considers involvement in tattoos – including permanent composition – be cosmetics. This means that they do not need pre-comment approval as it does a medicine or medical equipment.

The pigments used in the paints are color additives that are subject to FDA approval, but the agency says it has not traditionally regulated their use.

Meanwhile, research on the health effects of the tattoo continues.

Although a study last year suggested a link between tattoos and a greater chance of lymphoma, a type of blood cancer, some experts said the evidence was not convincing.