I don’t have any sea-salt, and my piercing is a bit difficult to clean outside the shower. Would soapy water be acceptable to use several times a day? I’m using an anti-bacterial soap.
I don’t have any sea-salt, and my piercing is a bit difficult to clean outside the shower. Would soapy water be acceptable to use several times a day? I’m using an anti-bacterial soap.
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Buy some sea salt, or buy some ready made saline solution. Use table salt if you must, despite what they say, tabel salt won;t harm you, however on some people it may cause irration.
Don;t clean your piercing more than twice a day, being too clean may hinder the healing process, plus you need to let it scab over a little in order to heal, if your continuously removing the scabs then how is it gonna heal? A piercing is a wound, think abotu it if you pick the scab of a cut, it bleeds and another one forms. If you keep picking the scab off it takes much longer than it would if you hadn’t. Piercings are difficult to clean at all outside of the shower. Simply pour soapy water (antibacterial soap) or sea salt solution into a bowl get a q-tip/cotton bud dip it in and then gently clean around the piercing. And do that twice a day.
The antibacterial sopa, should be fine though.
as long and you’re using an antibacterial soap that is unscented, you’re fine to clean your piercing with it.
if you have non iodized regular salt you can substitute it for the sea salt. to do the soaks.
sea salt is inexpensive and can be found in the spice aisle of any grocery store.