During my blog tour I found a blog with shopping tips for people with a peanut allergy. You can actually buy a silicone bracelet to wear yourself but usually they are bought for children to stop them being given any nuts to eat that could endanger them. I think this is a great idea and it makes a lot of sense. It even started me thinking that maybe we don’t mention as often as we should that our jewelry is perfectly suited to people with a nickel allergy. TeNo only uses two recognised non-allergenic stainless steel alloys for its jewelry pieces and we have only heard of three allergy cases since 1999, and each of these was “just” a skin reaction.
Surgical stainless steel (316L) is used for screws to fix bones in place, body-piercings, bone plaques, joint pins, wires, mandibular wire mesh prostheses, stitches, staples and even electrodes for heart pacemakers and many other things, too. Stainless steel 316L doesn’t release any nickel onto the wearer’s body and doesn’t trigger any nickel-induced skin rashes.
Results from independent laboratories show that the nickel release from 316L is less than 0.01 ug/cm2/week. – The stainless steel alloy 4305 contains an even lower amount of nickel. These two stainless steel alloys are used by TeNo and fully comply with the strict European Directive on nickel in jewelry.
So there’s no reason why those who suffer from allergies can’t try wearing our jewelry. Also our new steel bracelets from our YuKoN charms collection. If, despite this, you have an allergic reaction within two months of purchase, then please tell your TeNo jeweler and ask him/her to contact us.
