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- Don’t Spin and touch, hands off - no alcohol/ anti bacterial stuff on it - saltwater, sea salt solks; distilled water + non ionid sea salt; use glass not plastic !; in microwave (warm not burning !) soak vor 7-15 minutes !
It is so important to boil the water first, especially if you make it in advance. Boil in the microwave or on the stove. Get it up to a rolling boil for at least 1 minute, then let it cool to a comfortable temperature. PSA from someone getting a Masters degree in Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology (5 piercings so far.) Stay safe!
Every time you open up the bottle, mold spores and bacteria in the air land on the water's surface. So distilled water starts sterile but doesn't stay that way once it's opened. It's probably ok but I wouldn't take a chance. I mostly made the comment because i thought it was a little irresponsible for the piercer to say to leave it out and not boil it.
Claudia Greene if you're using it with in a couple weeks it should be okay especially with the salt. and it's in a container there aren't outside contaminents getting in there. he's been doing piercings for like 17 years so I'm sure he knows what he's talking about
this is my third time getting my nose pierced because it was constantly getting infected. I finally stopped listening to what everyone else on youtube was saying and started listening to this guy. best thing i EVER did. my piercing is healing so nicely and i haven't had any problems!
wow i’ve been using dial soap... update: I used this salt water soak or whatever on my industrial piercing and i seen improvement in one day. this stuff really drains infections .
@@domiinessaa9118 use non iodized salt. In iodized salt they put iodine which is similar to alcohol in the sense that while it cleans scars out, it’s really harsh for your skin. Use non iodized salt because there’s no iodine added, meaning it’ll be more gentle on your skin and still flush out all of the bacteria you don’t want there
This guy is saving me right now. I got m nose pierced a few weeks ago and my piercer told me to use antibacterial soap 5 times a day... I ignored him and went for saline solution. I'm probably gonna ditch that and start doing this. Thank you SO much.
noor wth Saline solution(Piercing Aftercare) is also good to use. I use both the Sea Salt Soaks & the 'Wound Wash', it helps really well for my Daith! Hope I answered some questions
Got mine pierced 2 days ago and I was told to use anti bacterial soap. I decided just to use the soap let it sink in for about 1 minute and finally rinse it with some no iodized salt water
my ear was swollen for 2 days and tired this out last night. woke up this morning, did another soak, and my swelling reduced in size considerably! thank you so much mate!
I’ve been getting derms & piercings for 10yrs & this is absolutely hands down the best advice I’ve ever received 😩 started doing this 6 months ago bc I saw this vid
I was about to pull a piercing out of my ears, because it was not healing. After care was just dropping the salt water on my ear piercings. So gave this a try. After the second day of these soaks, boom they were healing!!! Ty for this video!!!
I have been rotating my conch piercing for a month to get the crusts loose as my piercer adviced doing it and it's sore and is going to develop a bump anytime now... Thank you so much for this advice, my piercing is already calming down. You're like the youtube piercer god.
Valeara from what my piercer told me is to move it but only while you are cleaning it and also to never use a seasalt soak because it dries it out and my daith jewerly healed quickly that way.
Thank you so much for posting this! I recently got my tragus pierced with a ball closure ring and after a few weeks, the ball fell off. I made the horrible mistake of trying to put it back on myself and the piercing got infected. I was cleaning it with that piercing solution stuff that you can get from the mall (my piercer hadn't really given me any aftercare instructions), but it wasn't doing any good, so I switched to sea salt soaks. The next morning after using the soak, the infection was pretty much almost gone! I've been doing the soaks for a few days now and my piercing is almost back to normal.
Hello Shauna Ramdas. It's 3 years since u posted this. Hope u'll see my question and reply. 'How did u get the salt soak to your tragus. U know it's almost inside the ear and using a cup will get water into your ear. Have an infected tragus. Thanks
@@sindiholman1053 hopefully your tragus is healing well. I would use saturated cotton balls, (can be one cotton ball, split in half,) slightly dripping with the warm saline solution. Place a dripping cotton ball, or half, on each side of the piercing. Leave it to soak a solid 15 minutes. Squeeze the excess saline on each side of the piercing. You're done! ✅
Thank you soooo much for this video!! My daughter and I just got our piercings yesterday. She got a nose ring and I got a dermal by my left eye. We were told to use antibacterial soap on mine and sea salt on my daughter's. We were was also told to clean them once or twice a day and to keep my dermal covered with a bandaid for up to 2 or 3 weeks. That way my body won't reject it. You definitely saved us from some bs 🙄. Thanks again!
This applies for ear stretching too; I've been at 00G for over a year now and I tried going up to 7/16ths aaaaaand my ears bled the next day from rotating them and sleeping on them incorrectly. I was panicking so much until I saw this video. I started my ear stretching journey watching your videos, I really appreciate the clarity and time you take in your videos to explain the importance of doing or not doing something. Thank you!
My piercer suggests essentially the same thing but just a couple of minutes soaking not 7-15. I use cooled boiled water and sea salt and it's really important to thoroughly dry the area with say kitchen towel after otherwise the piercing site dries out.
Thankyou so much. My piercer didnt even tell me how to clean it. I got mine yesterday. My friends told me to use rubbing alcohol and rotate it. Im so glad i watched this video because now i know how to clean it well. Thankyou.
thank you. oddly enough I have sensitive skin, but my piercings never reject or infect. even with my first piercing, soap just didn't make sense. I tried but no. sea salt was what I went with
my piercer literally told me to spin it daily, use bactine, use that soap u said not to...luckily i've only had it for two days so not too much damage done but my nose is ridiculously dry (septum piercing) so thank u for this
Thank you!! I've been very nervous about getting my conch pierced because I had a terrible experience with a piercing that never healed properly and kept getting infected. Of course, I was much younger then and didn't know anything, but I feel much more comfortable knowing that I can properly care for it now :)
So glad I found this video, getting some more ear piercings today! I had my first lobes done years ago when I was really young and had absolutely no knowledge about piercings so I trusted my piercer (who pierced with what I now learn are called piercing staples) when she told me to rotate it every day and clean it with alcohol. My lobes took one year to heal....
I've had 4 piercings & it only took about 4 weeks to heal using alcohol. I re-pierced my old piercings & tried this method & it was very itchy & starting ro get really red. So I went back to using the alcohol & it healed up very quickly.. I'll never use the salt or the saline methods again for my. piercings It may work good for some people, but it doesn't work for me. YMMV
I’m so glad I ran into this video.. I just recently got my belly pierced two days ago and was using bactine for the pain and it’s been abnormally sore. I will try this seansalt soak and will come back and leave an update ❤️❤️
Thank you for saying the do not spin thing. I've had so many piercings and I have had my ears stretched for years but I decided to go up to 5/8 recently after not stretching for a long time and I forgot what I'm supposed to do to get em healed and healthy! Lmao, thanks for this!
Thanks for that info dude!!! just received my body piercing kit in the mail so I'm fixing to have some more piercings so I'm really glad I seen this video about the sea salt water to clean the piercings with.
I got a labret piercing, and I was told 1/2 mouth wash 1/2 h2o. And antibacterial soap for the outside. My piercing hasn't healed yet. It's been a little over a month, and when I was it with soap it burns. So I stopped and just use warm water. So now just see salt h2o. Also, I've been told clean for 5 min.... This has been for every piercing I've gotten. Thanks!!
My piercer said to use listerine mouth wash and bactine. He said the sea salt spray sucks. I've developed a pink bump. I'm going to go buy sea salt instead and hopefully that'll dissolve it and heal.
glass sort of. It shrinks up then flares up. So then I tried tea tree oil, that did the same thing. It minimizes then it comes back. I spoke to another safe piercer advocate and she recommended the sea salt soaks too. Had this crap since July. I feel like just taking it off 😕. Sorry no real positive news.
@@brittanyglass4839 so I ended up taking it off and popping the keloid. Hopefully it'll heal with little scarring. Also I'm glad I took it off for another reason. The back of my lip was healing over my piercing 😫. I'm going to wait awhile before I try again. How has it healed for you?
@@Sebastopool15 I got my industrial and tragus yesterday and my piercer told my to use rubbing alcohol. Now I'm just so confused. Should I swich to sea salt? 😕
Helpful, dude who pierced my ear told me to not use rubbing alcohol but he to use soap and water smh. Glad I did my own research before cleaning it for the first time
Holy hell. Thank you and I applaud you for making sure everyone knows how to do salt water soaks but damn. Every video I click on you explain it. And that's not a bad i just thought I'd share that. Love your videos btw
if a piercing is showing early signs of an infection, swelling redness, feeling warm, (it shouldt happen, but it can), add a little bit of providone iodine to the solution. just a few drops, to give it an amber or light tea color. the earlier you act, the better! one should always have iodine solution on hand anyways.
I had my piercing for about a month and I noticed after washing it with antibacterial soap that I had some slight irritation happening, this video helped me a lot with how to clear that up. My only question is how long do I have to consistently soak it?? ( ex: a month, 2 months ?) I want to get to a point where The piercing is healed enough to just do the sea salt soak a couple times a week.
Love your accent! Watching this from SCOTLAND, UK and greatly appreciate the advice! I'm going into day 3 of my cartilage piercings only using aftcare from my piercing salon (which contains tea tree oil) and saline solution. Hate using cotton buds as I seem to move the piercings slightly and it hurts! Will be doing soaks instead and quite happily! Thanks for the advice xx just hope I'm not too late to start them!
I don't even know what's right and wrong anymore because the place I got it pierced at and some sites say to rotate, and you and some other sites say don't, so I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO? And then some sites and my piercer says I can use alcohal to clean my cartilage pierce then some say don't?! I'm not even sure what to do anymore! Someone please help.
Leeann Feng you probably figured it out already since it’s been a month but if not, i used alcohol to clean my helix piercing and i use alcohol to clean the earrings every time i would put a new one on and my helix piercing healed and is fine. however just in case if i were you i wouldn’t use alcohol just in case because you’d rather be safe than sorry.
You’re not supposed to use alcohol because it prolongs the healing process, it kills the bad stuff but it also kills your white blood cells (which are what heals it). Same with peroxide. This is even the same in the medical field, you never clean wounds more than once with alcohol or peroxide. You only rotate when the piercing is wet, don’t do it dry because it will tear as someone else stated. But if you clean your piercing, the scabs are softened or completely gone, so rotating won’t damage. Rotating prevents your skin from basically growing and attaching to the piercing. Coming from someone who has piercings, grew up in a tattoo shop and is in the medical field...have faith in me lol
@@ashlierupert2492 Hi, I was just wondering if you know when you should start rotating something to prevent your skin from attaching to it--or does soaking it enough to prevent it? Thanks.
I got my industrial done today and I haven’t been measuring so I’m afraid I’m not putting enough salt. Also my pierced said to rotate it only during cleaning so idk! Also I used the wrong salt by accident and I switched it to the right salt so I hope that didn’t do anything harmful
Thank you so much for this information, i jus got my nose pierced yesterday, and they told me to get antibacterial , but after watching this and doin research salt water soaks is the best solution and its helping thanx again brotha yu definitely kno wat yur talkin about
So no oil thank you so much for mentioning that! Im allergic to the beach salt I get hives. Knowing i could do it without oil is great! Also my sea salt my husband likes does not have iodine!
I recently changed my already healed up helix piercing. I put a ring in i bought in italy once (only buy jewerly from sanitary places. Dont be as dumb as i am/was) the ring got caught up in almost everything, the helix got extremely irritated, very swollen, itched and hurted a lot. So i took the ring out and put the old jewelry(which is titanium) back in. Right now the itching and the redness is almost completely gone. I really hope this heals up and the swelling goes away too.
just got my pierce the pain was bearable i didnt feel the need to cry but when they remove the piercing needle it does sting i have to wear my unwash helmet home tho...after 3 hours i covered my ear with plastic wrap and took a shower after that i soak my ear in sea salt water the next morning my pierce stop hurting
Im using bottled water instead of distilled water because i can't afford to get a new spray of neilmeds until next month and using iodized salt because i trust my husbands advice on which salt is healthier( he's never led me wrong before and we've been together almost 15 years)
For anyone who needs this information: If you have a tragus piercing, use the small dosificador cup that comes with the coughing syrups. Obviously clean and disinfect the cup before use. It does the trick.
How long did it take for yours to heal? Mine is really infected and and got dark and nasty looking, I’ve tried a lot of things. Im going to try this method and hopefully it’ll work
@@lpjm most of the time when someone thinks they have an infection they don't, whats probably happened is the piercing has been irritated in some way (either in your sleep or been knocked etc) and just isn't having a fun time. Do sea salt soaks twice a day for a little while and if that doesn't help I would suggest taking the piercing out and waiting for it to heal before getting it re-pierced or contacting your piercer
In the end everyone is different and there are so may different remedies and tbh some work for some of us and some don't or vise versa, it's just about knowing your body and seeing what works for you the best, if you've just been using saline solution or seasalt water or just soap nd water or whatever it is and see no discomfort or something bad happening then just keep doing your thing :))
I don’t even have piercings nor am I planning on getting any but for any kind of wound, scrape, sore, infection etc my go to is boiling water and then putting like 1/2 of epsom salt per gallon of water in it and letting it cool just to the point where I can stand it without it actually burning me. I’ve seen it physically draw out pus from everything from a splinter to an infected hangnail or an ingrown toenail. That and when I had staph once on my lower calf the doctor told me to use plain dial bar soap and water to wash it with like 4 times a day as well as using the cream they gave me and taking oral antibiotics. Idk why specifically dial maybe because it’s just a super plain cheap bar soap but I used it instead of our usual lever 2000 (the green bar which my parents somehow raised me up on and never once changed our brand of soap for the near 22 years I’ve been alive and now I can’t use anything else or I don’t feel clean or I breakout lol)
The women who periced my industrial last wk told me every time I get in the shower to push it up and down to help get rid of the scabs. She said depending on the person it will hurt for a couple months which it hurt bad the first day but as of right now it doesn't hurt unless you touch the ear near the industrial and it didn't really scab yet.
haha same, last time i got mine pierced years ago thats what they told me to do so thats what ive been using for the last few days with my new one, def switching to this now haha
I was told to use antibacterial soap also but asked for second opinion and got a salt water spray (first-aid) from a piercing counter in the mall, it works great and even took away the little stinging soreness on the first soak (nose piercing)
How would you sea salt soak an industrial? I soaked my septum everyday with this method and it healed perfectly and really easy. I'm just curious as to how you could possibly soaked the top of your ear in such a fashion or if there's a different method for that area?
Well I use a dropper or a syringe, I do make sure your that I boil either or in water with a bit of sea salt before using it and after using it to prevent bacteria up.
There is another TH-camr that soaked a cotton ball in VERY hot water, dipped it in some sea salt and rested the cotton ball on her piercing. She then rinsed it off while in the shower. Not sure if that’s an “approved” method but it seemed to work for her.
You should ever use a cotton swab as the fibers can get caught in the piercing and cause an infection. You should put the solution into a cup and put the cup up to your ear and tilt your head or just fill the cup all the way, place it down and dip your ear into it.
got mine done 10 days back and now there’s swelling on the right one . I can’t really go ask for larger jewellery because of the pandemic . Can I just leave it be and hope the swelling will go down? I’ve been doing sea salt soaks religiously
@@lexington9836 I let mine air dry. We're on day 2 of my piercing and it still hurts like a bitch so I cant touch it >.< Its an industrial bar and in terrified of messing it up. I dunk it in the salt water solution for like 10 minutes and then let it air dry 3 times a day
Great stuff man! However I'm curious about a few key things: 1). I understand that distilled water is pretty much free of all things like contaminants and minerals. But why only distilled water, could I use tap water that's been boiled then cooled (warm enough) instead?! 2). Where I shop it's seemingly easier to get a hold of iodized salt. What would most likely happen if I used iodized salt instead of the recommended iodine-free one?!
Did you end up using the sea salt soaks method or H2Oceans spray? And how did it work out ? Bc idk if I should just stick to using the spray or use sea salt soak method instead !!? 🥺
Alexia Carranza Tbh I liked the spray better! I sprayed it onto my bellybutton piercing and let it “soak”. Although I felt the sea salt soaks were a cheaper alternative. My piercing took FOREVER to heal, I feel like the spray sped up my healing time and it was more “soothing” to the piercing.
i appreciate how clear and dumbed down this is
Kashae Wilborne same! 🤣🤷🏼♀️
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- Don’t Spin and touch, hands off
- no alcohol/ anti bacterial stuff on it
- saltwater, sea salt solks; distilled water + non ionid sea salt; use glass not plastic !; in microwave (warm not burning !) soak vor 7-15 minutes !
Flora Green do we have to use that water
Pnk with Vibess yush, regular water has chemicals distilled water has removed harmful things I guess
I thought you were suppose to spin it
Brent Waters if you spin your piercing you will get keloids
@@Xot3789 thanks soo much
It is so important to boil the water first, especially if you make it in advance. Boil in the microwave or on the stove. Get it up to a rolling boil for at least 1 minute, then let it cool to a comfortable temperature. PSA from someone getting a Masters degree in Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology (5 piercings so far.) Stay safe!
Even distilled though?
Kasey Johnson no. distilled water is super clean
Every time you open up the bottle, mold spores and bacteria in the air land on the water's surface. So distilled water starts sterile but doesn't stay that way once it's opened. It's probably ok but I wouldn't take a chance. I mostly made the comment because i thought it was a little irresponsible for the piercer to say to leave it out and not boil it.
Claudia Greene if you're using it with in a couple weeks it should be okay especially with the salt. and it's in a container there aren't outside contaminents getting in there. he's been doing piercings for like 17 years so I'm sure he knows what he's talking about
Claudia Greene i got a piercing And bought plain salt but it does not have iodide in it could i still use it for a soak ?
this is my third time getting my nose pierced because it was constantly getting infected. I finally stopped listening to what everyone else on youtube was saying and started listening to this guy. best thing i EVER did. my piercing is healing so nicely and i haven't had any problems!
wow i’ve been using dial soap...
update: I used this salt water soak or whatever on my industrial piercing and i seen improvement in one day. this stuff really drains infections .
hey did you use non iodized salt? or did you use non iodized sea salt because i bought the wrong one ):
@@domiinessaa9118 i used iodized . im not sure if it makes a difference
I have a question. Can you use this solution on freshly pierced ears? Or is this after the ear is healed?
@@passionfruit95 yes, use this solution on new piercings. I did this for about two or three months on my ear piercings and it worked great.
@@domiinessaa9118 use non iodized salt. In iodized salt they put iodine which is similar to alcohol in the sense that while it cleans scars out, it’s really harsh for your skin. Use non iodized salt because there’s no iodine added, meaning it’ll be more gentle on your skin and still flush out all of the bacteria you don’t want there
Pretty straight forward, thanks!
This could have been a 30 second video
This guy is saving me right now. I got m nose pierced a few weeks ago and my piercer told me to use antibacterial soap 5 times a day... I ignored him and went for saline solution. I'm probably gonna ditch that and start doing this. Thank you SO much.
noor wth
Saline solution(Piercing Aftercare) is also good to use.
I use both the Sea Salt Soaks & the 'Wound Wash', it helps really well for my Daith! Hope I answered some questions
noor wth I was using saileen saluting too but tbh I don’t know how it should look like so I’m just going to use his method instead
Got mine pierced 2 days ago and I was told to use anti bacterial soap. I decided just to use the soap let it sink in for about 1 minute and finally rinse it with some no iodized salt water
Lazy Bones (off topic 😂😂) kpoppp looked at ur channel and loved it 😂
What is saline solution ?
my ear was swollen for 2 days and tired this out last night. woke up this morning, did another soak, and my swelling reduced in size considerably! thank you so much mate!
Thank you! i got mine today and had no idea what i was doing. My piercer was no help at all , he just said "uh soap and water. " 😑
Same here such douche bags
Ray J Mine told me just H2Ocean on mine but I'm definitely going to do this as well
Ray J that's not bad after piercing my ear my piercer literally said nothing
Same! Mine said the same thing
lol mine made me feel like "IF YOU TOUCH THEM AFTER YOU WILL DIEEEE!" lel
I’ve been getting derms & piercings for 10yrs & this is absolutely hands down the best advice I’ve ever received 😩 started doing this 6 months ago bc I saw this vid
Keisha Butler how many times a day do you soak
This is exactly what my piercer told me and thank god I'm seeing this everywhere because now I know he's actually pretty good!
my piercer told me to use antibacterial soap. wow he was no help 🤦🏽♀️
Jazlynn Cruz mine also said to use anti bacterial soap, she is also a RN so idk now
Listen to your piercer
dial is harsh.. my piercer said Dove Sensitive Skim soap works great and isn’t to harsh
Same
Mine said dial and sea salt
I was about to pull a piercing out of my ears, because it was not healing. After care was just dropping the salt water on my ear piercings. So gave this a try. After the second day of these soaks, boom they were healing!!! Ty for this video!!!
How long did it take? And which salt did you buy
Did you take off the piercing?
If you've got a piercing you can't just dunk into a mug (like a brigde) you can use an organic chamomile tea bag and soak it in the salt water
- i love you- thank you 😂👌 ill use coton pad probably-
I have been rotating my conch piercing for a month to get the crusts loose as my piercer adviced doing it and it's sore and is going to develop a bump anytime now... Thank you so much for this advice, my piercing is already calming down. You're like the youtube piercer god.
Valeara yeah got a bump on my conch too, this video is Saving me rn
Valeara from what my piercer told me is to move it but only while you are cleaning it and also to never use a seasalt soak because it dries it out and my daith jewerly healed quickly that way.
He really is a piercing god, he did mine today & It didn't hurt
Petrichor lol probably because that spot wasnt painful for you
Same
Thank you so much for posting this! I recently got my tragus pierced with a ball closure ring and after a few weeks, the ball fell off. I made the horrible mistake of trying to put it back on myself and the piercing got infected. I was cleaning it with that piercing solution stuff that you can get from the mall (my piercer hadn't really given me any aftercare instructions), but it wasn't doing any good, so I switched to sea salt soaks. The next morning after using the soak, the infection was pretty much almost gone! I've been doing the soaks for a few days now and my piercing is almost back to normal.
Shauna Ramdas i
Hello Shauna Ramdas. It's 3 years since u posted this. Hope u'll see my question and reply. 'How did u get the salt soak to your tragus. U know it's almost inside the ear and using a cup will get water into your ear. Have an infected tragus. Thanks
Shirley Temple just dip ur ear into it where it’s pierced
@@shirleytemple7787 that was my question!
@@sindiholman1053 hopefully your tragus is healing well. I would use saturated cotton balls, (can be one cotton ball, split in half,) slightly dripping with the warm saline solution. Place a dripping cotton ball, or half, on each side of the piercing. Leave it to soak a solid 15 minutes. Squeeze the excess saline on each side of the piercing. You're done! ✅
Thank you soooo much for this video!! My daughter and I just got our piercings yesterday. She got a nose ring and I got a dermal by my left eye. We were told to use antibacterial soap on mine and sea salt on my daughter's. We were was also told to clean them once or twice a day and to keep my dermal covered with a bandaid for up to 2 or 3 weeks. That way my body won't reject it. You definitely saved us from some bs 🙄. Thanks again!
This applies for ear stretching too; I've been at 00G for over a year now and I tried going up to 7/16ths aaaaaand
my ears bled the next day from rotating them and sleeping on them incorrectly. I was panicking so much until I saw this video.
I started my ear stretching journey watching your videos, I really appreciate the clarity and time you take in your videos to explain the importance of doing or not doing something. Thank you!
You are AWESOME!!! I just got 3 piercings today and your video is perfect timing!!! 5 years later and this is still the Best advice!!!❤💜
My piercer suggests essentially the same thing but just a couple of minutes soaking not 7-15. I use cooled boiled water and sea salt and it's really important to thoroughly dry the area with say kitchen towel after otherwise the piercing site dries out.
Do you have to rinse it or just pat dry???
Definitely rinse with plain water after sea salt soak. And dry with clean towel
wow the guy who pierced my nose told me to clean it with bactine and anti bacterial soap. thank you for this video!!
Thankyou so much. My piercer didnt even tell me how to clean it. I got mine yesterday. My friends told me to use rubbing alcohol and rotate it. Im so glad i watched this video because now i know how to clean it well. Thankyou.
thank you. oddly enough I have sensitive skin, but my piercings never reject or infect. even with my first piercing, soap just didn't make sense. I tried but no. sea salt was what I went with
people dont listen when I tell them though
Matt pierced my nostril! Great piercer, gave me very detailed aftercare instructions. 🤘🏻 I can't think of a better person to explain this process!
I was using a plastic cup before this but now Imma be using a glass cup
my piercer literally told me to spin it daily, use bactine, use that soap u said not to...luckily i've only had it for two days so not too much damage done but my nose is ridiculously dry (septum piercing) so thank u for this
I find that a shot glass works well for nose piercings rather than a coffee mug.
I am sooooo thankful for this video!!!!!! it healed heal my conch piercing when it was in its early stages of infection. thank you!!
Thank you!! I've been very nervous about getting my conch pierced because I had a terrible experience with a piercing that never healed properly and kept getting infected. Of course, I was much younger then and didn't know anything, but I feel much more comfortable knowing that I can properly care for it now :)
So glad I found this video, getting some more ear piercings today! I had my first lobes done years ago when I was really young and had absolutely no knowledge about piercings so I trusted my piercer (who pierced with what I now learn are called piercing staples) when she told me to rotate it every day and clean it with alcohol. My lobes took one year to heal....
I've had 4 piercings & it only took about 4 weeks to heal using alcohol. I re-pierced my old piercings & tried this method & it was very itchy & starting ro get really red. So I went back to using the alcohol & it healed up very quickly.. I'll never use the salt or the saline methods again for my. piercings It may work good for some people, but it doesn't work for me. YMMV
another thing that i have done in the past is use tea tree oil on keloids and it's worked great for me too
I'm so upset the list that my piercer gave me tells me the exact opposite of all these things.
I just soaked it for the first time and it felt incredibly soothing. I have high hopes 😊
I’m so glad I ran into this video.. I just recently got my belly pierced two days ago and was using bactine for the pain and it’s been abnormally sore. I will try this seansalt soak and will come back and leave an update ❤️❤️
Any updates? I just got mine done a week ago and just recently got red and formed Crusties. Still very sore as well
Thank you for saying the do not spin thing. I've had so many piercings and I have had my ears stretched for years but I decided to go up to 5/8 recently after not stretching for a long time and I forgot what I'm supposed to do to get em healed and healthy! Lmao, thanks for this!
Thank you! This was so helpful! There is a lot of info out there that is not the best way to heal piercings!
I have been doing everything so wrong for so long. Thank you for this video.
Thanks for that info dude!!! just received my body piercing kit in the mail so I'm fixing to have some more piercings so I'm really glad I seen this video about the sea salt water to clean the piercings with.
Holy moly. I've been spinning my piercing as you said not to! Lmaooo. Thank you so much. I'm all new to this and it hurts a lot. Now I know.♡
I got a labret piercing, and I was told 1/2 mouth wash 1/2 h2o. And antibacterial soap for the outside. My piercing hasn't healed yet. It's been a little over a month, and when I was it with soap it burns. So I stopped and just use warm water. So now just see salt h2o. Also, I've been told clean for 5 min.... This has been for every piercing I've gotten. Thanks!!
My piercer said to use listerine mouth wash and bactine. He said the sea salt spray sucks. I've developed a pink bump. I'm going to go buy sea salt instead and hopefully that'll dissolve it and heal.
did it work for ya? I'm going thru this now :/
glass sort of. It shrinks up then flares up. So then I tried tea tree oil, that did the same thing. It minimizes then it comes back. I spoke to another safe piercer advocate and she recommended the sea salt soaks too. Had this crap since July. I feel like just taking it off 😕. Sorry no real positive news.
@@brittanyglass4839 so I ended up taking it off and popping the keloid. Hopefully it'll heal with little scarring. Also I'm glad I took it off for another reason. The back of my lip was healing over my piercing 😫. I'm going to wait awhile before I try again. How has it healed for you?
@@Sebastopool15 I got my industrial and tragus yesterday and my piercer told my to use rubbing alcohol. Now I'm just so confused. Should I swich to sea salt? 😕
@@GaryPoopins no use sea salt, that healed all my piercings with the exception of this last one. Good luck 🙂
Helpful, dude who pierced my ear told me to not use rubbing alcohol but he to use soap and water smh. Glad I did my own research before cleaning it for the first time
Holy hell. Thank you and I applaud you for making sure everyone knows how to do salt water soaks but damn. Every video I click on you explain it. And that's not a bad i just thought I'd share that. Love your videos btw
if a piercing is showing early signs of an infection, swelling redness, feeling warm, (it shouldt happen, but it can), add a little bit of providone iodine to the solution. just a few drops, to give it an amber or light tea color. the earlier you act, the better! one should always have iodine solution on hand anyways.
I had my piercing for about a month and I noticed after washing it with antibacterial soap that I had some slight irritation happening, this video helped me a lot with how to clear that up. My only question is how long do I have to consistently soak it?? ( ex: a month, 2 months ?) I want to get to a point where The piercing is healed enough to just do the sea salt soak a couple times a week.
Just got my 9th peircing. Ive never had a body peircing besides my ears until now. Thankyou!!
Thank god for this video, the piercer didn’t even tell me how to clean it💀
I definitely love my piercings and want to make sure they heal good. I just got my nose pierced again and I hope it heals up great!! Cuz I love it 😻
Love your accent! Watching this from SCOTLAND, UK and greatly appreciate the advice! I'm going into day 3 of my cartilage piercings only using aftcare from my piercing salon (which contains tea tree oil) and saline solution. Hate using cotton buds as I seem to move the piercings slightly and it hurts! Will be doing soaks instead and quite happily! Thanks for the advice xx just hope I'm not too late to start them!
As an American with this accent that’s so sweet
I used bactine and it helped heal my piercing really well
I don't even know what's right and wrong anymore because the place I got it pierced at and some sites say to rotate, and you and some other sites say don't, so I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO? And then some sites and my piercer says I can use alcohal to clean my cartilage pierce then some say don't?! I'm not even sure what to do anymore! Someone please help.
Leeann Feng you probably figured it out already since it’s been a month but if not, i used alcohol to clean my helix piercing and i use alcohol to clean the earrings every time i would put a new one on and my helix piercing healed and is fine. however just in case if i were you i wouldn’t use alcohol just in case because you’d rather be safe than sorry.
Do rotate , rotating will disturb the scabs a prolong healing , and when you rotate the little scabs can be very sharp in the piercing hole
You’re not supposed to use alcohol because it prolongs the healing process, it kills the bad stuff but it also kills your white blood cells (which are what heals it). Same with peroxide. This is even the same in the medical field, you never clean wounds more than once with alcohol or peroxide. You only rotate when the piercing is wet, don’t do it dry because it will tear as someone else stated. But if you clean your piercing, the scabs are softened or completely gone, so rotating won’t damage. Rotating prevents your skin from basically growing and attaching to the piercing. Coming from someone who has piercings, grew up in a tattoo shop and is in the medical field...have faith in me lol
I wouldnt use alcohol
@@ashlierupert2492 Hi, I was just wondering if you know when you should start rotating something to prevent your skin from attaching to it--or does soaking it enough to prevent it? Thanks.
Saline solution and a q tip work good to clean a nose peircing. Mines healing fast with just using that to clean it.
This sea salt soak save my life. Lol
I got my industrial done yesterday and I was told to do a saltwater soak but didn't know how, thanks
I've see that after you soak it you're supposed to rinse it with fresh water as wel
DrumsAndMetal you can leave it or rinse it
Becky Rex I believe if you leave it without rinsing it the salt left on your skin might crystallize
You can also use contact lens solution instead of making your own salt water.
Glad I watched this video cause someone with a septum told me to move it so it doesn't get stuck...
I got a bump on my nose and u saved me lol just overnight it has went down alot!
I got my industrial done today and I haven’t been measuring so I’m afraid I’m not putting enough salt. Also my pierced said to rotate it only during cleaning so idk! Also I used the wrong salt by accident and I switched it to the right salt so I hope that didn’t do anything harmful
Omg I just got an industrial piercing a few days ago, and I've been using alcohol to clean it. Thanks this was very helpful 👍👍👍
I’ve been using the stuff they gave me and it really didn’t do much and then I tried this and it’s so much more cleaner now
Thank you so much for this information, i jus got my nose pierced yesterday, and they told me to get antibacterial , but after watching this and doin research salt water soaks is the best solution and its helping thanx again brotha yu definitely kno wat yur talkin about
OK SO NO ONE TOLD ME ABOUT NOT SPINNING MY EAR AND NOW IM SCARED BECAUSE IVE BEEN DOING IT FOR A HOT MINUTE
olivia lyon how is it now?
So no oil thank you so much for mentioning that! Im allergic to the beach salt I get hives. Knowing i could do it without oil is great! Also my sea salt my husband likes does not have iodine!
glad this video could be helpful ! :)
can you just use any type of water? or does it have to be distilled water?
Sea salt works very good always and is the best thing to use after getting anything pierced
Leeann Albritton What about the Inside of your mouth? Should you use this as a replacement for Mouthwash?
Am I still able to fart while my piercing is healing?
This made my day😂😂
Fart Knocker No, absolutely no farting!
😂😂😂
i actually laughed out loud from this. help.
Laughing from this hurt my piercing THANKS
I recently changed my already healed up helix piercing. I put a ring in i bought in italy once (only buy jewerly from sanitary places. Dont be as dumb as i am/was) the ring got caught up in almost everything, the helix got extremely irritated, very swollen, itched and hurted a lot. So i took the ring out and put the old jewelry(which is titanium) back in. Right now the itching and the redness is almost completely gone. I really hope this heals up and the swelling goes away too.
Omg he looks like Toby from pretty little liars
he looks like Eminem to me lol.
+AVA4444 how lol
+Hippie Love he looks identical to Eminem. look up a picture of Eminem and then look at this video. side by side if u can
+AVA4444 dude I'm a huge eminem fan I have like 4 posters in my room this guy looks nothing like em I just don't see it
+AVA4444 maybe just his nose
just got my pierce
the pain was bearable i didnt feel the need to cry
but when they remove the piercing needle it does sting
i have to wear my unwash helmet home tho...after 3 hours i covered my ear with plastic wrap and took a shower after that i soak my ear in sea salt water the next morning my pierce stop hurting
this was sooo informational
Im using bottled water instead of distilled water because i can't afford to get a new spray of neilmeds until next month and using iodized salt because i trust my husbands advice on which salt is healthier( he's never led me wrong before and we've been together almost 15 years)
how long do you have to do this? like 7 days after the piercing? 6 months? lmao help
2-3 months
Depends on the piercing. Cartilage can take up to a year. Labret, lip or lobe piercings as little as 4 weeks
You have to do it immediately after you get your piercing
For anyone who needs this information:
If you have a tragus piercing, use the small dosificador cup that comes with the coughing syrups. Obviously clean and disinfect the cup before use. It does the trick.
How long did it take for yours to heal? Mine is really infected and and got dark and nasty looking, I’ve tried a lot of things. Im going to try this method and hopefully it’ll work
@@lpjm most of the time when someone thinks they have an infection they don't, whats probably happened is the piercing has been irritated in some way (either in your sleep or been knocked etc) and just isn't having a fun time. Do sea salt soaks twice a day for a little while and if that doesn't help I would suggest taking the piercing out and waiting for it to heal before getting it re-pierced or contacting your piercer
In the end everyone is different and there are so may different remedies and tbh some work for some of us and some don't or vise versa, it's just about knowing your body and seeing what works for you the best, if you've just been using saline solution or seasalt water or just soap nd water or whatever it is and see no discomfort or something bad happening then just keep doing your thing :))
My piercer told me to move my piercing. That was a week ago, glad I watched this video i'll stop moving it today!
How do I soak a helix piercing? It's just at such an awkward angle to dunk my ear in
Put the solution in a spray bottle and spray on piercing, then dry off
I don’t even have piercings nor am I planning on getting any but for any kind of wound, scrape, sore, infection etc my go to is boiling water and then putting like 1/2 of epsom salt per gallon of water in it and letting it cool just to the point where I can stand it without it actually burning me. I’ve seen it physically draw out pus from everything from a splinter to an infected hangnail or an ingrown toenail. That and when I had staph once on my lower calf the doctor told me to use plain dial bar soap and water to wash it with like 4 times a day as well as using the cream they gave me and taking oral antibiotics. Idk why specifically dial maybe because it’s just a super plain cheap bar soap but I used it instead of our usual lever 2000 (the green bar which my parents somehow raised me up on and never once changed our brand of soap for the near 22 years I’ve been alive and now I can’t use anything else or I don’t feel clean or I breakout lol)
Is a premade saline solution fine? Like the stuff you use for nasal decongestion
The women who periced my industrial last wk told me every time I get in the shower to push it up and down to help get rid of the scabs. She said depending on the person it will hurt for a couple months which it hurt bad the first day but as of right now it doesn't hurt unless you touch the ear near the industrial and it didn't really scab yet.
No follow the directions
him: no bactine
me: *using bactine the past 3 months”🤡
haha same, last time i got mine pierced years ago thats what they told me to do so thats what ive been using for the last few days with my new one, def switching to this now haha
yes my piercer told me to use bactine as well
I’m so happy I came across this just got my nose pierced yesterday
♡
Wish I had known all this and gone with my gut instead of using antibacterial soap like my piercer said... on the verge of infection only 3 days in 😣
Pinkie Pie i feel you!
I was told to use antibacterial soap also but asked for second opinion and got a salt water spray (first-aid) from a piercing counter in the mall, it works great and even took away the little stinging soreness on the first soak (nose piercing)
I keep rotating it bc that was the piercer advice. Thank you for clarifying it. Not i got heliz bumps because of it. 😔
My piercer told me to boil water, poor it in a cup , 1 table spoon of sea salt, wait for room temp, 10-15 soak
For how long? A week ? Month?
how much water ?
sara trnavac 10-15 minutes do it for 2-3weeks if it’s still not healed within that time then continue to do it
Thanks for the Informative video. I was told to her antibacterial dial soap.
How would you sea salt soak an industrial? I soaked my septum everyday with this method and it healed perfectly and really easy. I'm just curious as to how you could possibly soaked the top of your ear in such a fashion or if there's a different method for that area?
I use a coffe cup for those, that has a large openin so you can fit ur ear in
Well I use a dropper or a syringe, I do make sure your that I boil either or in water with a bit of sea salt before using it and after using it to prevent bacteria up.
There is another TH-camr that soaked a cotton ball in VERY hot water, dipped it in some sea salt and rested the cotton ball on her piercing. She then rinsed it off while in the shower. Not sure if that’s an “approved” method but it seemed to work for her.
anybody know what you do after you soak your piercing? like.. do you just dry it with q-tip.. or, do you rinse with water and then dry..? help😏
i put the bowl of water on the floor and laid there with my ear in it it was hella uncomfortable
How about spray saline spray?? And how many times a day do we have to clean them I just got my 3rd and my daith
Ummm I'm finding it Impossible to get my tragus into a cup 😂
Use a soaked cotton swab
You should ever use a cotton swab as the fibers can get caught in the piercing and cause an infection. You should put the solution into a cup and put the cup up to your ear and tilt your head or just fill the cup all the way, place it down and dip your ear into it.
H2Ocean might help then
I am using the small dosificador cup that comes with the coughing syrups. It works!
Thank you for being straight to the point!
got mine done 10 days back and now there’s swelling on the right one . I can’t really go ask for larger jewellery because of the pandemic . Can I just leave it be and hope the swelling will go down? I’ve been doing sea salt soaks religiously
Thank you so much for this info! I was clueless about the instructions after I got my piercing lol
Is distilled water very important? Or can I also use cleaned water?
My piercer said that anti-bacterial soap is better for lobes. One of them is infected 😐
This might be a dumb question but after i soaked my ear piercing with the solution should i leave it wet?
thibu100 no you have to dry it to prevent mildew and infection from left over residue...
bby kpop-vortex with a towel or tissue? Maybe it will have bacteria on? 😭
iz iz tissue for sure, cloth can harbor bacteria
@@lexington9836 I let mine air dry. We're on day 2 of my piercing and it still hurts like a bitch so I cant touch it >.< Its an industrial bar and in terrified of messing it up. I dunk it in the salt water solution for like 10 minutes and then let it air dry 3 times a day
bby kpop-vortex dabble a cotton ball until dry
I have 3 body parts with different piercings (nose, both ears) can I use the same water in the cup or do I need to swap out the water after each use?
Peirces my ear at home because I’m bored of quarantine... go to grocery store and find distilled water “it should be easy to find” YEA AIGHT
Anthony Howard this is me 😭
Great stuff man!
However I'm curious about a few key things:
1). I understand that distilled water is pretty much free of all things like contaminants and minerals. But why only distilled water, could I use tap water that's been boiled then cooled (warm enough) instead?!
2). Where I shop it's seemingly easier to get a hold of iodized salt. What would most likely happen if I used iodized salt instead of the recommended iodine-free one?!
What's the advantage of sea salt soaks vs H2Oceans spray?
Did you end up using the sea salt soaks method or H2Oceans spray? And how did it work out ? Bc idk if I should just stick to using the spray or use sea salt soak method instead !!? 🥺
Alexia Carranza Tbh I liked the spray better! I sprayed it onto my bellybutton piercing and let it “soak”. Although I felt the sea salt soaks were a cheaper alternative. My piercing took FOREVER to heal, I feel like the spray sped up my healing time and it was more “soothing” to the piercing.
Hailey M Okay thank you so much for responding!! I’ve been using the spray on my nose piercing and it’s been fine so far :)
Daith 2 months ago..been spinning and now I see what the problem is. Trying sea salt tonight