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Safe way to sterilize your tattoo equipment
Sterilizing your tattoo equipment is most important thing before you going to tattoo. You should learn how to be absolutely sterile and clean in your work. You have to start some where and you should learn the right way. The pro tattoo artists usually use a steam autoclave, but if for any reason you can't afford for a steam autoclave then use only pre-sterilized,
disposable needles and tubes. You open then as soon as your getting ready to start the tattoo and throw them away when your done. There's no need to sterilize because they are already sterilized and you use a new one for each tattoo. Always sterilize and make sure what you doing is legal where your at. Spreading disease is no joke so i recommend if you get
spore tests to check if your sterilizer is working properly.
Madicide is for surfaces, not instruments.
Metricide, madacide, or gluteraldehyde 2.5%+ doesnt gaurantee the destruction or denaturing of these proteins(prions), like cooking an egg, when it turns white it is in fact denatured. Besides the fact that it will inevitably be more costly, 28 day active life cycle, 10+ hour soak time, etc. No guarantee products are sterile and aldehydes are toxic, so must be cleansed afterwards, in something more than likely not sterile.
Heat, chemical vapors, high level radiation and steam (heat) are the only proven reliable methods of sterilization to the days standards.
Boiling water does about as much as pissing on it. Ultrasonics are for cleaning, you need to get your tools spotlessly clean. Scrubbing and soaking isn't enough. If there's any residue, sterilization doesn't penetrate it, and as soon as you get them wet with ink, you'll just reactivate whatever's hiding in the residue.
Stove top Pressure cookers are garbage - DO NOT TRUST THEM. They are not approved by anyone as a sterilizer, and do not regularly pass a spore test. The pressure and heat are too inconsistent to be a sterilizer- something you need to be 100% reliable and consistent.
You need an N class or B class
autoclave and and ultrasonic - no exceptions.
Autoclaves sterilize as a function of heat, achieved by increasing atmospheric pressure (15 fold sea level) thus increasing the boiling point and evap of water. Given the fact that moisture is denser than air composition, it acts as a heat sink against all objects within the clave, thus destructiun of bio matter.
Autoclave (for most), dry heat clave (for ferrous low carbon metals) and a combination of chemicals is the only safe way to do it. These are set practices that reputable tattoo artists follow to keep our clients safe.
If you really want to make your clients safety then invest some money in a
professional sterilizer, it'll be money well spent.
