Let Me Tell you Why Certain Jewelry Discolors

Have you ever had engagement rings or a necklace that turns your skin green I’m sure you’ve been curious what the cause is. Most Often - your skin is reacting to base metal to everyone who buys and wears low cost jewerly.
Skin greening can happen to some faster than others~ though, because everyone’s composition is just a little bit different.

Even jewelry you pay more for can turn people’s skin green~ because even the expensive stuff isnt pure~ regardless of gold or silver content. Platinum is one metal that usually doesn’t react with skin so not to fear if the stuff you wear is 100% platinum.
To try to stop gold jewelry from making your skin green make sure that you don’t have plated gold – it has only a very fine coating of gold over top of a base metal that can rub off. If you have solid gold jewelry opting for 18 karat will lower your chances of green skin.
Copper jewelry will almost always turn your skin green and its hard to stop it.

Stay away from sweating in your jewelry it can amplify the skin to metal reaction and also ask your jeweler if there is anything that he can coat the jewelry item with – to minimize the amount of green reaction your skin has. If you do this you should be able to wear your jewelry quite often.
Just remember- your skin turning green is a harmless reaction. It’s a chemical skin reaction and not an allergic reaction. Metal allergic reactions will make you red and also will make your skin inflamed and itchy. It’s not anything like the green skin that you see from jewelry.
If you do show signs of allery stop wearing the jewelry. Green skin shouldnt scare you ore keep you from wearing your favorite pieces you may just have to clean your skin more so it doesn’t look bad.

Truth be told coating your jewelry is generally your best choice.