If you've ever had a piece of jewelry that makes your skin yellowish you've most likely asked yourself what causes it. Most Often - there is a reaction caused by basic metals to just about everyone who buys and wears low cost jewerly.
Skin greening can happen to some people more quickly than others- though, because everyone's skin is different.
Truth be told expensive jewelry can turn people's skin green; because even the expensive stuff isnt pure; no matter how much it costs. Platinum hardly ever reacts with skin so not to fear if you own platinum jewelry.
To try to stop gold jewelry from reacting to your skin be sure its not plated gold – it has only a very fine coating of gold over top of a base metal that will wear off. For 'real' gold jewelry spending the extra on 18 karat gold only can help reduce the marks that are left on your skin.
Copper jewelry will also turn your skin green and there isn't a whole lot you can do about that.
Avoid sweating in your jewelry because that can speed up the reaction between your skin and the metal and also ask your jeweler if there is anything that he can coat the jewelry item with – in order to try to stop the reaction or minimize it. If you can find something to keep the reaction to a minimum you can wear inexpensive jewelry whenever you want. Don't forget~ the green discoloration isn't harmful. It's a chemical skin reaction and not an allergy. Allergies will causes reddening plus it could also make your skin feel itchy and inflamed. Which is a far cry from green skin.
so make sure if you notice an allergy developing that you stop wearing your jewelry right away. If it's only turning your skin green you can certainly continue wearing it as long as you like you may just have to clean your skin more to avoid having it look bad.
Truth be told coating it is probably the answer.
