Table 3.
Other possible ingredients and haptens contained in the tattoo ink and pigment colour.
Tattoo ink/pigment color | Ingredient |
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Black | Iron oxide |
Carbon | |
Logwood | |
| |
Brown | Ochre (ferric oxide) |
| |
Red | Cinnabar/mercuric sulfide |
Cadmium red | |
Iron oxide/common rust | |
Napthol-AS pigment | |
| |
Yellow | Cadmium yellow |
Ochre | |
Curcuma yellow | |
Chrome yellow (PbCrO4, often mixed with PbS) | |
| |
Green | Chromic oxide (Casalis Green or Anadomis Green) |
Lead chromate | |
Phthalocyanine dyes | |
Ferrocyanides and ferricyanides | |
| |
Blue | Azure blue |
Cobalt blue | |
Cobalt phthalocyanine | |
Cobalt aluminate | |
| |
Violet (purple) | Manganese ammonium pyrophosphate |
Various aluminum salts | |
Dioxazine/carbazole | |
| |
White | Lead carbonate |
Titanium dioxide | |
Barium sulfate | |
Zinc oxide | |
| |
Henna | Henna dye and paraphenylenediamine (PPD) |