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 Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 5:15 am Post subject: treatment on my new tat please helppp |
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| hi guys i just got my first tat last night the guy told me to use a+d cream for 3 days,i went to the pharmacy and bought it but noticed it said diaper rash cream and is a different color then the one the guy was useing during the tat procdecure,do i have the right one,the name on the box is a+d zinc oxide cream diaper rash cream,please help |
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| Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 5:34 am Post subject: |
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| get bacitracin |
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| Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 6:44 am Post subject: |
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you need a n d OINTMENT...not cream
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| Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 9:03 am Post subject: |
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NEVER EVER EVER use bacitracin on a tattoo. Just put a drop of pharmacutical or food grade lavander oil in a few ounces of shea butter and it will heal like magick.
Do not use A&D, as it is petroleum based, and you should not use petroleum based products of ANY kind. Stay away from ANY antibiotic cream or ointment GARBAGE, at all cost.
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Tattoo GOO
INK FIX
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There are at LEAST 6 too many ingredients in each.
You need an emolient, and an astringent to kill germs. Shea butter is the best emolient there is, and contains allentoin, which promotes faster healing...something ADDED to Tattoo Goo, but occurs naturally and in more concentration in Shea butter.
The Lavender oil is an astringent, and also adds a pleasant scent. Tattoo goo has an added scent, along with other things which serve absolutely no purpose, such as food coloring. Tattoo Goo is now owned by a company that has absolutely no ties to the tattoo industry. Support your local hippies, instead of some asshole capitalizing on the industry from the outside. Go to the local Nature store and buy shea butter and some oils, and mix something that actually works instead of buying junk that lines the pockets of people who don't even HAVE tattoos.
More junk=more problems. |
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INK FIX is owned by tattoo artists. No added colors or odors.
Your mixing method is most likely a GREAT alternative but for the average person getting ink I don't see them going to go through all that trouble? Maybe...
More and more shops are usning INK FIX. No corp. giant here. 
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Not sure about the ingredients in Ink Fix. Last time I saw it, the salesman didn't know, and it wasn't listed anywhere. That was a problem for me. Do you know what is in it, and if so, can you tell us?
I am not going to recommend ANYTHING that doesn't have ingredients listed, and the shea butter and oil method costs a few cents per ounce. We make and sell it in my studio, and when we don't have it, people seem to have no proiblem buying the stuff at the local hippy store. It works on anything from bad hair to cancer to stinky feet, so it won't go to waste.
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Nevermind....found it on their website:
Soy Oil - Great skin softener and moisturizer.
Bees Wax - Ink Fixx base instead of petroleum.
Cocoa Butter - Soothes & moisturizes skin.
Glycerin - Humectant & moisturizer.
Vitamin A - Skin cell rejuvenator. Promotes new skin cell growth.
Vitamin C - Skin cell protector, enhances Collegen production. restructures and maintains skin suppleness and elasticity. Also reduces the formation of imperfections(scar tissues).
Grape Seed Extract - Anti-oxident protects and strengthens skin tissue. Reduces inflammation. Protects 50 times stronger than Vitamin E and is an anti-inflammatory.
Methylparaben/Propylparaben - Preservative.
All the things those EIGHT ingredients do, you get out of the TWO I listed for pennies on the dollar.
The ingredients that occur naturally in shea butter would replace the following list from the Ink Fixx:
Soy oil
Bees wax
Glycerine
Vitamin A
Vitamin C
Grape seed extract
The one substance already does what those things, combined, do, and the only other ingredient they have listed is a preservative, which is unnecessary.
Shea butter has soothing, moisturizing and protecting effects. Due to the presence of a sizeable quantity of unsaponifiable fats, its content in vitamins and other active elements, shea butter adds other more precise activities to these general properties. It displays a protecting role against UV rays because of its content in cinnamic acid and can thus be incorporated in solar products. The natural latex contained in shea butter would moreover prevent certain sun allergies. Shea butter also helps cell regeneration and capillary circulation. This favours the healing of small wounds, skin cracks and crevices, and skin ulcers. In the cosmetic field, this property is an asset against skin aging. It has restructuring effects on the epidermis, also on dry and fragile hair. Dry skin, dermatitis, dermatoses, eczema, sun burn, and burns are all helped by natural shea butter.
It has an anti-elastase characteristic which makes it a good active ingredient against stretch marks.
Shea butter can also be used to treat rheumatism and aching muscles, and to ease colds because it decongests nasal mucous tissues. It is very well tolerated by the skin for it does not normally trigger any allergic reaction and can even be used on very sensitive skin areas such as mucous tissues and around the eyes.
Shea butter is therefore an outstanding recipe for cosmetic and pharmaceutical purposes, even incorporated in high proportions. It is easy to work into all kinds of emulsions and makes a very good excipient (carrier) as it prevents allergenic reactions without altering the active principles.
Different article:
Shea butter is a solid fatty oil made from the nuts of Karite Nut trees, also known as Mangifolia, that grow in the semi-arid savannah regions of West and Central Africa. Shea butter is sometimes called “women’s gold,” because extracting the butter from the nuts gives employment and income to hundreds of thousands of rural African village women. Shea butter is so non-toxic and beneficial that it is used in foods and cooking as well as soaps and beauty products. (Note from Cait: one of my favorite lip balms is a vanilla-scented treat from La Natura made with shea butter. It is totally delicious!)
African healers and beauties have known about shea butter for thousands of years: the substance is almost magical in its healing effects on burns, skin conditions, ulcerated skin, stretch marks, and dryness.
It contains beneficial vegetable fats that promote cell regeneration and circulation, making it a wonderful healer and rejuvenator for troubled or aging skin. It also contains natural sun-protectants. |
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So, any head shop/hippy shop should caring this?
I'll try it on my next session.
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Every tattoo artist has a way, that works well for them, in healing their work. I know in my years, I have used all kinds of things to heal my tattoos. But for me now, I like using, and recommend to all my clients, plain unscented hand lotion. My thought is that the ointments are based with petrolium jelly. The body has no compatibility for this, and it oozes out of the pores, and makes a sticky surface on the new tattoo, which makes a perfect place for the flying dirt and bacteria in the air, to stick to your tattoo. And also will clog the pores, not allowing air to be able to get to your new tattoo. Where as the lotion penatrates the skin, leaving virtually no residue, and gets to the tattoo to keep it soft and moist.
This is just my way, and I have healed tattoos in the past with other methods. But in my opinion, the lotion method has been my favorite. |
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| TheTattooArtist wrote: | Every tattoo artist has a way, that works well for them, in healing their work. I know in my years, I have used all kinds of things to heal my tattoos. But for me now, I like using, and recommend to all my clients, plain unscented hand lotion. My thought is that the ointments are based with petrolium jelly. The body has no compatibility for this, and it oozes out of the pores, and makes a sticky surface on the new tattoo, which makes a perfect place for the flying dirt and bacteria in the air, to stick to your tattoo. And also will clog the pores, not allowing air to be able to get to your new tattoo. Where as the lotion penatrates the skin, leaving virtually no residue, and gets to the tattoo to keep it soft and moist.
This is just my way, and I have healed tattoos in the past with other methods. But in my opinion, the lotion method has been my favorite. |
did anyone ever complain about stinging? when i would use the lotion to soon after getting my tattoo it would sting...i'd use a+d ointment for 3 days then use lubriderm lotion.
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Most lotions contain stearic acid, which can cause burning and stinging.
Dump the A&D, and the hippie stuff can be used everyday for the rest of your life, with no problems. Many people use it as a daily moisturizer, so you don't have to worry about switching from one bunch of crap to the next. You start out using it, keep using it throughout the complete healing process, then use it till you die to keep your skin healthy, block UV rays, and keep the color screaming bright.
No shit...try it. You will never go back to greasy kid stuff. |
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| badwolf: so shea butter and what kind of oils? I am interested in trying this. Right now my artist recommended Aquafor ointment 2-3 times a day. It seems to work, but it does leave the surface a little sticky. |
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| Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 4:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Try about 1 ounce of Shea butter and a drop of food grade Lavander oil. Just mix it up. Get the most natural unprocessed shea butter you can find. When we make it for the studio, we buy it in 10 pound blocks. The only other thing we add is bees wax to make it more solid. As much as I hate to add anything unnecessary, we find it helps to keep people from applying too much. Just a slight bit is enough to do it. It is powerful, yet safe stuff. But when we supply friends, and make it for ourselves, we only use the shea butter and lavander oil. |
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good deal, I'll try to whip some of this stuff up tomarrow.
thanks |
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