Piercings and sea salt?

Question

i would like for you nice people here to suggest some sea salts for me this will be my first piercing and i would like to get it right. on the other hand i am totally lost when it comes to the sea salt rinse i get how to do it i just don't know which kind to buy. if anyone out there cn help plz do.


and plz no smart comments.

Answer 1

Just plain sea salt. Nothing extra in it like scents or whatever.

1/4 teaspoon of sea salt, 8 oz of water.

you can also use an isotonic saline solution with no preservatives. You can find it with the eye contact solutions. Just make sure it's isotonic.

Have fun!

Answer 2

Yes! Sea Salt n Kosher Salt r good 4 piercings

Answer 3

Buy a plain sea salt. For piercings you don't want extra chemicals and scents. What kind of piercing is it? Ears are easy, get a wash cloth damp and gently clean around the ring. For my nose I used a q tip dipped in a warm water and sea salt solution and cleaned lightly around the outside as to not get it caught and on the inside I did the same and was sure not to twist it. Tongue piercings are easy to clean, brush your teeth often and use mouth wash, gargling a little bit of a sea salt solution twice a day, morning and night. If you had it done at a shop they should have given you after care instructions. Follow those and if you did it yourself or had someone else do it have a professional check it out and show you how to take care of it.

-I have always used and love Bandaid Brand: Hurt Free Antiseptic Wash for my piercings. Of course if you got your tongue pierced don't use that there.

Answer 4

I would actually recommend a saline solution specifically for peircings or one avail from a pharmacy. I personally found that sea salt, or a salt rinse dried the edges of the hole too much, causing small cracks on the edge, making it a larger wound than necessary, and while it didnt get infected, it did take longer to heal, and itched like hell. Do not use anything that comes in a crystalline form, buy the ready liquid form, or a different type of anti bacterial wash.

Answer 5

any sea salt works. i have 13 piercings and 1 tattoo. well if its not on your ear ( the piercing) then take a little cup of warm hot water and add some salt. let it disolve. then how ever you do it, flip the cup upside down on to your piercing ( say belly button) with out spilling it. if its ears. just disolve it and take a paper towl and soak it in the salt water and rub on ear. then go buy some witch hazel its the Best for piercings.

Answer 6

like "cc" said, before me, h2o clean is great... but if you still want to go along with the sea salt:

just get plain sea salt.. its simple to come upo.. they even sell it at walmart

now, for the sea salt soak...
what you do is:
take a shot glass, fill it with warm water... mix in about a tsp. of sea salt... and soak the piercing in the glass for like 3-5 minutes... twice a day...
and that should be all you need...
((because salt soaks ups your sodium intake))

Answer 7

I've personally come to love H2Ocean.
It's easier than mixing my own and they have an aerosol form so it stays sterile, and I think it also makes it easier to use.
I have13 piercings and have used H2Ocean for all of them.
[snakebites, industrial, tragus, belly, lobes gauged to a 2, and the other 5 just going up my lobes. 3 on one side and 2 on the other] And all of them healed up very nicely.
H2Ocean has a mouthwash for when I got my snakebites, and I used the can of it for the rest of my piercings.
It's available at most tat/piercing shops, also at most Hot Topic stores.
That's where I get it, as it's closer than my piercer.
It's about $10.00.
xx
good luck with your piercing, hope it goes well.

Answer 8

if you go to a good piercer they will tell you exactly how to take care of it and even GIVE you sea salt for it

Answer 9

First answer given covers it all, just thought I would mention that you can buy sea salt anywhere, spice aisle at wal-mart anywhere. happy holes!

Answer 10

Go to the health food store and purchase your salts.