Recently I read a book I picked up from the library and if I'm not mistaking I believe the book is called Taking the Leap: Building a Career as a Visual Artist. Well I remember taking note of a list, "Toxic Materials in Arts and Crafts Materials"
Chemical art material
Major adverse effects
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Ammonia found in most acrylic paints
Irritates the skin, eyes, and lungs.
Antimony pigments, patinas, solders, glass, plastics
Anemia, kidney, liver, and reproductive damage
Arsenic lead enamels and glass
Skin, kidney and nerve damage, cancer
Asbestos some talcs and French chalks
Lung scarring and cancer
Barium metals, glazes, glass, pigments
Muscle spasms, heart irregularities
Cadmium pigment, glass and glaze colorant, solders
Kidney, liver and reproductive damage, cancer
Chromium pigment, glass, and glaze colorant, metals
Skin and respiratory irritation, allergies, cancer
Cobalt pigment, glass and glaze colorant, metals
Asthma, skin allergies, heart damage, respitation
Formaldehyde most acrylic paints, plywood
Irritates skin, eyes, and lungs, allergies, cancer
Hexane rubber cement and some spray products
Nerve damage
Lead art paints, enamels, glazers, solders
Never, kidney, reproductive damage, birth defects
Manganese glass and ceramic colorants, pigments, metals
Nervous system damage, reproductive effects
Mercury luster glazes, pigments, photochemicals
Nervous system damage, reproductive effects
Uranium Oxide ceramic, glass, and enamel colorant
Kidney damage, radioactive carcinogen
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