Many of us have hobbies we do to relax, such as paining, photography, ceramics, refinishing furniture, or model building. If you said yes, you guessed right. Although you may find it hard to believe, many of the materials used in common hobbies are used in industrial settings, are toxic, and can cause health problems. Get the answers. Skin contact with many art materials can cause burns, irritation, and allergies.
Toxic materials can enter the body through cuts or sores.
In addition, many solvents can be absorbed through the skin into the body. Inhalation of solvent vapors, dusts, aerosol spray mists, and metal fumes can either injure the lungs or be absorbed through the lungs into the bloodstream. Hazardous dusts include those from dry clay, glaze ingredients, dye powders, plaster dust and sawdust. Common art materials containing hazardous solvents included turpentine, paint thinner, paint and varnish removers, rubber cement, silk screen inks and solvents, lacquers and their thinners, shellac, permanent markers, cleaning solvents, aerosol spray cans, and solvent-based glues and adhesives. Other toxic art materials include etching gases, kiln gases, soldering fumes, and gases from photographic developing.