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What should i clean my cartilage peircing with?

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its new and its a little sore

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  1. Well, this info should've been given to you by your piercer, so don't go back to him/her if they didn't give you aftercare instructions.

    You want to clean it 2-3 times a day with a sea salt soak (1/4 tsp sea salt dissolved in 8 oz of warm water) or an anti-microbial soap (Satin or Provon are preferred, but Dial is also acceptable).

    Do not use alcohol, peroxide, neosporin etc. on it.  These are for minor scrapes and abrasions and your piercing is a puncture wound.


  2. Clean your hands thoroughly with antibacterial soap. Do this before touching your newly pierced ears, always.

    Get a cotton swap or a cotton ball, and soak it in an antibacterial solution that your specialist gave you. If you did it yourself, then you can either buy a solution or soak your ears in sea salt and water.

    Apply your ear solution to your ears. Be sure to not only clean around the ears, let the solution be able to seep into the piercing. Clean your ears 2-3 times a day.

    Turn the earrings. Turn your earrings about half a turn, three times a day. Again, if you did it yourself, you must be extremely careful, because if you didn't use the right needle (piercing needle) this may lead to infection.

    Take them out! After about six weeks (two months), take out your earrings and enjoy your new piercing. (But don't leave them out too long because even if the piercings are healed, they can still close depending on how fast your body heals)  

  3. use a q-tip dipped in either rubbing alcohol or the bottle of cleaning solution that should have been provided for you upon getting your piercing. Clean around and behind the earring and on the ear in the general area of the piercing.  

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