10/20/2026
🌌Hey everyone!
We just want to take a moment to talk about aftercare.
✨️Please remember, soaking your piercing can actually delay healing. This includes bathtubs, hot tubs, beaches, pools and even SALT SOAKS.
We know it can be a little confusing as there are a lot of products out there marketed as "piercing aftercare", but these products are outdated and misleading.
✨️Salt soaks and homemade "saline" can actually be dangerous for your piercing.
They are incredibly drying to the healing tissue, often leading to the skin cracking and bleeding by pulling out the bodies natural and necessary moisture needed to heal.
*We recently had to walk a client through healing a salt burn from using a "salt soak" marketed for piercings.
✨️Soaking can also create some pretty nasty moisture irritation bumps that can be painful and a nightmare to get rid of. Even going to bed with wet hair can do this, so imagine the outcome after soaking your piercing multiple times.
✨️On top of all that, our homes are NOT sterile environments, which means you are introducing new bacteria into a healing piercing every time you "clean" it, increasing the risks of infection when you make your own "piercing cleaner".
✨️Professional piercers recommend Sterile Saline solution, as it is the safest, easiest, and most gentle way to keep your piercings clean.
Anything else is overkill💜