Cremation Ink ®
Cremation Ashes Tattoo Ink
Infusing your loved one cremation ashes into tattoo ink, available around the world
The most personal memorial tattoo a person can have, made possible by the only specialist preparation of its kind. You post us a small amount of your loved one’s cremation ashes. We send you back a finished bottle of high quality ashes tattoo ink, ready for the local tattoo artist of your choice.
A loved one, in your ink, for life.
Made With Care In The UK
Every bottle of cremation ashes tattoo ink is prepared by hand in our UK lab, by one technician assigned to your order from start to finish.
Free Shipping Worldwide
Tracked and signed-for delivery to every populated continent. Customs handled, the bottle reaches your door safely.
Used By Your Local Artist
No specialist needed. The bottle behaves like any quality professional tattoo ink, used by the artist you already trust.
How It Works, Start To Finish
You order from us. We send out a kit. You post us about a tablespoon of your loved one’s cremation ashes. Our UK lab takes them through full preparation: cleaning, sterilisation, contaminant removal, reduction and proper infusion into our high quality professional pigment. Five to nine working days later, the finished bottle of ashes tattoo ink is back in the post to you, along with any ashes not used in the process. Choose from our full range of colours, ready for the local tattoo artist you trust.
The Safe Way To Do This
Any reputable tattoo studio would never put raw cremation ashes straight into ink themselves. A studio simply isn’t built for the lab work involved in preparing cremation remains, and doing this work in a studio is not safe for the client.
Cremation Ink ® is the UK-based specialist that handles this preparation properly, so the bottle that reaches your local artist is a ready-to-use professional ashes tattoo ink, the same as any other ink on their shelf.
The Ink In Action
Cremation Ink ® is trusted by professional tattoo studios all over the world for serious commemorative work, the kind of pieces that mean everything to the client and have to stand the test of time. This piece, as an example, by Lighthouse Tattoos in Portugal, was created using Cremation Ink ® and shows what the ink can do in the hands of a talented artist.
The colours behave the same as any quality professional tattoo ink, the pigment sits and heals the way good ink should, and the ashes-infused base is built for detailed, ambitious artwork like this. Real proof that an ashes tattoo doesn’t mean compromising on artistry.
Real client work. Real Cremation Ink ®. Real craftsmanship.
Tattoo Ink With Ashes
Everything about the product side. How the ink is made, why it works, what’s in the bottle.
Getting Tattoos With Ashes
The tattoo experience itself, finding the right local artist, and what to expect.
Memorial Tattoo Designs
Design inspiration. Portraits, signatures, paw prints, symbols, words and quotes.
Coping With The Grief
Honest words from over twenty years of sitting with grieving people and listening.
20+ Years • Combined experience behind every bottle of cremation ashes tattoo ink.
Thousands • Clients served, across every populated continent.
5-9 Days • Average turnaround once your loved one’s ashes arrive at our UK lab.
1 Technician • Assigned to your order from start to finish.
Pets Are Family Too
Around a third of our orders are for pets. Dogs, cats, horses, rabbits, parrots. The Cremation Ink ® process is exactly the same for pet ashes as it is for human ashes.
Many clients have their pet’s paw print recreated on their own skin using our prepared ashes tattoo ink, a part of their best friend that stays with them forever.
The people behind Cremation Ink ®
A Small Team. Decades Of Experience.
Cremation Ink ® is led by founder P Cutler, a working, award winning tattooist for over 30 years and a pioneer of ashes-into-ink work for over 20 years.
Our team of five is small by design. The work is careful, bespoke and personal, and a small specialist team is the right shape for it.
Common Questions
When You’re Ready
Cremation Ink ® is a careful, personal service. We work to your timing. Whenever feels right, we’re here.