I lost the ones that came with my plugs, can I use hardware store ones or are the earring ones a different material
NBR can certainly fail RoHS depending on the plasticizers that they use. Certain chemicals cause cancer etc. From a medical perspective, much safer to use silicone, which are also available in some hardware stores as viton, but are usually reddish in color. Although silicone can come in any color that you like.
*correction, viton is not silicone, but still used in medical applications
Unless you’re sensitive to nitrile you should be able to, but the best ones are silicone (the clear ones). Source: worked in a body art studio for about a decade
Any idea where I can get some then so I don’t have to wait and order?
The nitrile ones can be found at most hardware stores. If you have a nitrile sensitivity, which most people don’t, you’ll probably have to wait for the silicone ones.
If your piercings are fresh you would want silicone; if that’s not an option you could try using teflon tape on the outsides of the piercing channel maybe, or throwing some between the nitrile and the piercing fistula until they get to you (I’m just spitballing here, I can’t really imagine how that would work easily, but I’ve never tried. Teflon tape is pretty gentle on new/stretched piercings though).
I know nothing about piercings, but I can tell you that you 100% don’t want to use hardware store o-rings in your ears. Nothing good can come from that.
Do not put things in your body not made to put in your body.
That’s why I only get em from bad dragon
Luigi amiibo is acceptable too.
Components from hardware stores have all kinds of composition. If you don’t know what it’s made from, why would you assume it’s safe?
Even “stainless steel” can have all kinds of different compositions, some highly allergenic, some out-right toxic.
why would you assume it’s safe?
They didn’t assume it was safe? They thought maybe it was and asked to double check…
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For anyone confused, just gonna point out OP asked about rubber o-rings from the hardware store, not metal hardware. O-rings are non-metallic
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Aw man, it was good info about metals and the likely inclusion of nickel at the hardware store
Yeah but I replied with it because I misunderstood what was being asked. It’s not relevant to OP’s question.
If I had left it, it would just add to the confusion.
It sounds like a lot of people here are incorrectly assuming you are going to wear the o ring as jewelry, instead of using it as a keeper for your jewelry.
The o rings are the same. Wash them and use them.
Afaik, the standard orings are exactly the same material as in standard orings. Obviously, you can get stuff made of other materials, but your average black rubber oring is
nthe same material, no matter where you buy it. And I know for a fact that in the early days of body modification, when people were making their own plugs, they used orings from a hardware store. There weren’t any specialty ones at all.Now, over the years, there arose more decorative options, which often required a change in materials. Can’t make glowy orings out of the same rubber, you dig? But the typical ones you find on mass produced plugs are ordered from the same places that the hardware store ones get made.
I’m not saying that all plug makers order from the same places, just that when you’re churning out thousands of plugs, you either make your own orings, or you’re ordering them from somewhere. When that somewhere is also mass producing their orings, you are going to end up ordering what they make unless you’re ordering enough to merit them setting up another production line for your needs.
Again, afaik, there isn’t a piercing specific oring maker that’s selling to plug makers. It’s all coming from the same suppliers in China for the most part.
The caveat: been over a decade since I was hanging out with people that were serious about body mods enough to be making their own stuff and ordering supplies in bulk. Shit could have changed since then. I doubt it, but if anyone that’s currently making plugs on a large scale says otherwise, they’d know better than I do.
your average black rubber oring isn the same material
That has got to be the most amazing typo I’ve seen in a while. This comment seems legit and knowledgeable. So, did they mean is the same material, or isn’t !!???
(Context says they mean isn, but still, it’s a fantastic typo)
Lmao! Nice catch.
It’s is the same material
I would suggest washing them first, but you definitely can. I have 00 plugs and have lost the o-rings on them more than once … and the hardware store has been great for replacements. Just make sure that you get the right size.
You might also want to consult a doctor as they’d most likely be an unbiased medical expert for knowing about using products meant to be worn on or used in the body
Meh, clean it first and it’ll probably be alright. If if have issues stop using it.
Go for it.
