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Finding nickel-free jeans

Where to shop and find Nickel-free jeans

Despite being a growing demand and an extremely common cause of dermatitis in nickel allergy sufferers, the jeans manufacturers don't appear to have stepped up to the plate to provide nickel-free jeans (ie with nickel-free buttons and rivets). Or they may have but they neglected to tell anybody - the "nickel-free" description doesn't appear in their sales literature or their garments!

I have tested my jeans and have one pair of Calvin Klein jeans which test negative for nickel on the buttons and rivets (and I know I don't have a reaction to them either). The rivets are a dull (very dull) silver color - not shiny and not copper or bronze color.

You could always sneak a nickel test kit into the dressing room to check a new pair of jeans out...! At this point, this may be the most reliable way until manufacturers start labelling them for us.

If it comes to it, and you have the equipment and skills, you can fix a pair of your current jeans with nickel-free buttons and rivets.

I will continue to investigate nickel-free jeans and post the results here - if you find a manufacturer qualifying their jeans as nickel-free, please let me know.

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