What can I do to stop this...I keep my jewerly clean...? Any ideas?
2007-02-26 14:25:13 · 4 answers · asked by bailee_2005 1 in Beauty & Style ➔ Fashion & Accessories
Could mean your iron is low. Cost of the ring doesn't matter. It is a chemical reaction between your skin and something IN the ring. Usually a greyish/blackish indicates low iron.
2007-02-27 00:26:22 · answer #1 · answered by AnastasiaBeaverhousen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Gold is chemically rather inert. One of the other metals present (silver, nickel, copper) in the jewelry is probably causing the color change. Skin reactions to gold do exist. But they involve gold salts, not the metal, and the reactions are described as contact dermatitis, not as dark spots.
Gold is a soft metal, and it probably wears off the surface of the jewelry a bit faster than the other metals. If the jewelry is just gold-plated, the plating may be wearing away and allowing the base metal or plastic to contact the skin directly. It may be the base material that's causing the darkening.
Nickel causes most of the skin problems with jewelry. But as with gold allergies, nickel hypersensitivity seems to be a burning rash, not a darkening of the skin.
Some electrolysis of the metals in the jewelry will occur on the moist, salty surface of the skin. This definitely happens with copper; its ions stain the skin green. In fact, copper rings were once worn as 'blood purifiers'- the green discoloration was thought to be impurities drawn from the blood. If silver in the jewelry is oxidized on the chloride-rich surface of the skin, light-sensitive silver chloride might be formed. The AgCl will photoreduce to black silver crystals on the skin. Or, you could be getting an oxide or sulfide of one of the metals; many of those are black.
I suspect that the real story involves more than just simple metal redox reactions on the skin."
Read more about this subject in this article, intitled "Why does gold darken some women's skin?", here:
http://antoine.frostburg.edu/chem/senese/101/misc/faq/gold-spots.shtml
2007-02-26 14:43:25 · answer #2 · answered by Lirrain 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
you may have some of the minerals in your skin that the ring contains, it happens sometimes.
2007-02-26 14:33:19 · answer #3 · answered by katie d 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the ring wants you to give it away to charity...
2007-02-26 14:42:05 · answer #4 · answered by L.M.L 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋