Body modification advice

[Clueless Morgan]

Glass would seem to be your optimal choice here, it's highly non-porous. You can even boil the fuckers if you want. Clean-up's pretty easy, as there's little in the way of chemical solvents that will hurt glass. You could even get con'c HCl and drop 'em in there for a few hours.

This was going to be my suggestion.

You say you're allergic to nickle; have you tried metals like titanium, platinum, sterling silver, gold?* None of those contain metal and are considered hypoallergenic. Though for stretchers, which are probably not going to be in for very long and eventually set aside for larger gauges, I'd scout around for the cheapest hypoallergenic metal you can find.

*Surgical steel may contain small amounts of nickle, so even though it's considered hypoallergenic if your allergy is bad you still may have a reaction.

If you're having too much trouble with metals (even the ones listed above) and bone, rubber or silicone are too porous, glass is really your only other option.

My daughter has a 10mm much to my dismay, and uses plastic stretchers , she's never complained of any problems as far as I know .

People have different skin sensitivities: My skin can handle quite a bit of abuse and all sorts of different products, but my sister's skin is very sensitive and she has to be very careful and selective with what she can use or she gets rashes, breaks out or gets allergic reactions.

I used to buy stretchers for her (back when she was actively stretching her lobes) and had to be very careful about what I got her due to her sensitivities and her nickle allergy. She could wear titanium and sterling silver, though, and I don't know if TGA can or not.