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. 2014 Jul 23;2014:354608. doi: 10.1155/2014/354608

Table 3.

Other possible ingredients and haptens contained in the tattoo ink and pigment colour.

Tattoo ink/pigment color Ingredient
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)