What piercing healing method is the best?

Question

I've been interested in body modifications for years, and through researching them I've noticed a lot of different healing methods. Some say use a certain product, others say NEVER use that product.
Yesterday, I got my eyebrow pierced. I was wondering (from people who have experience in this area) what's the best healing method and products to use when it comes to a piercing? What aftercare methods have given you good results, or bad results?

Answer 1

Keeping it clean with alcohol swabbing and rotate the piercing daily...Always wash your hands before touching it...

Answer 2

H2Ocean is a great product, it is recomended by the top piercers in the industry. If you look up Steve Hayworth's web site he advertises H2Ocean on there because he is such a big suporter of that product. So if you want to go the holistic route then H2Ocean is the best stuff. H2Ocean basically kills bad bacteria while increasing blood flow to the area thus speeding up the healing process.
If you want to go for the medically sound advice then I suggest you go read the aftercare at www.tribalectic.com There aftercare instructions were written by piercers and piercing friendly doctors. This is the best aftercare advice you can get that is recomended by medical professionals, keep in mind the sea salt soaks can be substituted by H2Ocean (use as directed), or sterile saline wound wash soaks (not to be confused with contact saline) these all do the same thing as H2Ocean more or less.
Some people have had good luck with bactine although it is an older method and sort of out dated (there are better methods out there now), there is however nothing wrong with it.

Rubbing Alchohol and Hydrogen Peroxide are products that should never touch healing piercings and can cause more harm then good, alchohol specifically causes the most damage and will make a piercing take longer to heal, it is too harsh and irritates the healing piercing as well as killing off the good bacteria which will help your body heal faster. Peroxide has a similar effect.
Neosporin will cause piercings to reject, and if you read the instructions on the tube it actually says not for use on puncture wounds, a piercing is a puncture wound.
Ointments in generla are bad for piercings as they keep oxygen away from the piercing, and oxygen helps the piercing heal faster.
Hope that helps sort out the good the bad and the ugly.

Answer 3

I recently got an Industrial and I got a purified salt water spray called H2Ocean. My boyfriend was also given it when he got his eyebrow pierced. You clean your ear with it 3-6 times a day. You do not need to clean it with anything else. The spray costs $12 for a 1.5 oz from their website. It cleans off any gunk that appears really easily. Most of the time I spray my ear and then clean it with a q-tip to remove anything that is one my ear/jewlery. Check out all their pics of how different piercings/cuts healed.

Answer 4

Once its healed u wont face any problems, but till that time u need to take certain precautions also use something to curb the pain and the soreness.
This REALLY works wonders.
Use Turmeric powder and Sunflower Oil
Take some sunflower oil and heat it and mix a generous amount of turmeric powder in it. Leave it to get cool. When its a little warm, appply it on the area and swab it with cotton.
Do it before u go to bed and u will see it abs fine in the morning. You can reuse this paste for days with heating it again and again.

Answer 5

1/8tsp sea salt (not table or epsom salt) to 8oz water and soak 10min 2x a day, be sure to remove crusties w/ a q-tip and wash your hands before touching the area for ANY REASON. best and most widely accepted aftercare. peroxide and alcohol will dry out the area and kill good bacteria.