is stainless steel a good steel for sensitive skin? or does it have to be surgical or sterling silver?
Surgical stainless steel 316LVM is good, 316L is nowhere near in quality. Its very unusual for someone to have a reaction to surgical steel. Avoid plain stainless steel. Titanium is better, tougher and lighter. And contains less nickel than surgical steel, pretty close to nothing. Its pretty much impossible to be allergic to good quality titanium. Niobium contains no nickel, but only comes as CBRs, and is pretty expensive and unusual. Silver and gold should be avoid in piercings. They have to mix it with so much other junk so that its strong enough, really high nickel content.
idk about sensitive skin but i have stainless steal in i think right now. im sure any are good for a healed belly piercing, if it hasnt been 3 monthes yet then id stick with a surgical
I have sensitvie skin also. I use nickel free and titanium jewlrey, they're the safest. I never used surgical steel before though.
When I worked at Spencer's the jewelry would usually said what grade/type of metal it was. As long as it says 316L surgical steel you should be ok. But like another person said, go to a professional piercer and buy jewelry there because you know that you're getting good quality. You get what you pay for!
