Choose a hypoallergenic metal to ensure your wedding ring doesn't irritate your skin.
If you have contact allergies to gold or silver, choose a wedding ring made of a hypoallergenic metal. A hypoallergenic wedding band won't cause itching or a rash against your skin because it isn't mixed with the base metals, such as nickel, often alloyed with gold or silver. The cost of these rings ranges from surprisingly inexpensive to exorbitant, depending on the material used.
Instructions
1. Buy either titanium, tungsten carbide or platinum wedding rings from a local jeweler or on the Internet. These metals are considered hypoallergenic. Titanium wedding bands may have aluminum added if they are aircraft grade; aluminum rarely causes contact dermatitis. Tungsten rings without the word "carbide" may not be hypoallergenic. Hypoallergenic platinum rings typically are 95 percent platinum and 5 percent other metals, including ruthenium, iridium or palladium.
2. Measure your ring size if you plan on ordering your hypoallergenic wedding ring online. Ask a jeweler to measure your finger or use a complimentary ring sizer or chart online. Some Internet jewelers offer printable ring size charts.
To measure your finger, wrap a small strip of paper cut to 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick around the base of your ring finger. With a pen, mark where the end overlaps. Unwrap the paper. Measure the strip to the mark with the ruler. Convert to millimeters (mm) if the ruler doesn't have metric units. Refer to a chart listing ring sizes.
3. Choose the style and the width of the wedding band you want. Because of the relatively low cost of the hypoallergenic titanium and tungsten carbide rings, these wedding rings can be wider and still inexpensive. In some cases, no cost difference exists. Nonallergenic platinum usually tops $1,000.
4. Check the store terms if you order wedding bands online. Some stores will resize up to 1/4 size larger if the size isn't exact. Some will offer returns no engraving is requested. Some stores will offer to polish your titanium rings for free.
5. Check the descriptions of the metals used. Ensure the alloys used in the rings you buy are hypoallergenic. Tungsten carbide and the titanium metals usually follow the standards set for rings that don't cause allergies.
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