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Do you have buyer's remorse on your tattoo? As tattoos have become big business, the amount of people who regret their ink has risen dramatically. New procedures now exist for removing unwanted tattoos, many of them remarkably successful. Unfortunately, many DIY home remedies have also sprung up, many of them unsafe or ineffective. Here's what you'll want to know about using salt on tattoos, along with other helpful information on removing your unwanted tattoo. | Do you have buyer's remorse on your tattoo? As tattoos have become big business, the amount of people who regret their ink has risen dramatically. New procedures now exist for removing unwanted tattoos, many of them remarkably successful. Unfortunately, many DIY home remedies have also sprung up, many of them unsafe or ineffective. Here's what you'll want to know about using salt on tattoos, along with other helpful information on removing your unwanted tattoo. | ||
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== Steps == | == Steps == | ||
=== Knowing What ''Not'' to Do=== | === Knowing What ''Not'' to Do=== | ||
#Be very careful about rubbing salt into your tattoo. Whether you've just gotten your tattoo or have had it for longer than you'd like, using salt to remove a tattoo is a dangerous proposition. Here's why: | #Be very careful about rubbing salt into your tattoo. Whether you've just gotten your tattoo or have had it for longer than you'd like, using salt to remove a tattoo is a dangerous proposition. Here's why: | ||
| − | #*Your skin has effectively two layers — the dermis, or inner part of the skin, and the epidermis, or outer layer of your skin. When you get a tattoo, the ink travels past the epidermis, or superficial layer of skin, and into the dermis. Rubbing salt onto the epidermis is easy but useless. You need to get the salt into the dermis; even if you did manage to rub away the top layer of your skin to get at the ink, it's probably not going to end well.<ref name="rf10499" /> | + | #*Your skin has effectively two layers — the dermis, or inner part of the skin, and the epidermis, or outer layer of your skin. When you get a tattoo, the ink travels past the epidermis, or superficial layer of skin, and into the dermis. Rubbing salt onto the epidermis is easy but useless. You need to get the salt into the dermis; even if you did manage to rub away the top layer of your skin to get at the ink, it's probably not going to end well.<ref name="rf10499">http://www.realself.com/question/safe-remove-small-tattoo-home-salt</ref> |
#*Rubbing your tattoo with salt will give you a pretty nasty road rash. It may also cause pigmentation of the skin, wrinkling<ref name="rf17295">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6845800</ref>, and possibly scarring. Know that doing this procedure at home can have significant adverse consequences, and may make your tattoo look even worse. | #*Rubbing your tattoo with salt will give you a pretty nasty road rash. It may also cause pigmentation of the skin, wrinkling<ref name="rf17295">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6845800</ref>, and possibly scarring. Know that doing this procedure at home can have significant adverse consequences, and may make your tattoo look even worse. | ||
#Know why this myth started. Although there is a dermatological procedure that uses salt as a slight abrasive, there is probably one glaring reason why salt is thought to be a good tattoo eraser. When you get a tattoo, you're told not to submerge your tattoo in water, especially in salt water. If you're not supposed to soak your tattoo in salt water ''if you want to keep it'', maybe you could soak your tattoo in salt water ''if you didn't''? That's the reasoning at least. | #Know why this myth started. Although there is a dermatological procedure that uses salt as a slight abrasive, there is probably one glaring reason why salt is thought to be a good tattoo eraser. When you get a tattoo, you're told not to submerge your tattoo in water, especially in salt water. If you're not supposed to soak your tattoo in salt water ''if you want to keep it'', maybe you could soak your tattoo in salt water ''if you didn't''? That's the reasoning at least. | ||
