Ethereal Piercing - Things to Avoid

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THINGS TO AVOID DURING HEALING

Touching

I can not stress this enough! Touching and playing with your piercings is the easiest way to get them infected and prevent healing. Do not twist it or turn it, your body is trying to heal a wound and you are essentially ripping it back open and making your body work harder. Not to mention the risk of infection goes up with ever touch.

No foreign substances

The only thing that should be going directly on your new piercing is Sterile Saline Solution. Harsh soaps and chemicals with additives and moisturizers are terrible for any healing wound including your piercing.

Do not put any of the following on your piercing.

No antibacterial soap

No peroxide
No rubbing alcohol
No crushed aspirin
No Neosporin
No tea tree oil
No bactine
No vasaline
No Make up
No moisturizers or lotions
No self tanner
No sunscreen
No face wash

Taking your jewelry out

Taking your jewelry out during healing can cause your piercing unnecessary damage or cause it to close. You do not need to remove your jewelry for any reason during the initial heal time for your piercing. Even well healed piercings can close quickly once the jewelry is removed.

Sleeping

I know it's hard to change all of your sleeping habits when trying to heal certain piercings, but it is so important to keep irritation as minimal as possible. Sleeping on fresh or even well healed piercings is one of the biggest irritants for many piercings. To cut down on irritation, a travel neck pillow can be used to avoid putting pressure on the area and still have a comfortable nights sleep.

Submerging in water

Please shower as normal, but do not submerge your piercing in water during the healing process. This does mean no swimming for quite a while. No baths, especially with bath bombs or bubbles. No swimming in the ocean, lake, pond, river, pool, even saltwater pools. Especially no hot tubs. If swimming is a big part of your life during the warmer months then I usually suggest getting pierced during Autumn.

Do not Take piercing advice

While your friends and family might your best interest in mind they are not a trained professional to give advice.

Google can be a good source of information, but getting through all of the bad information can make it hard and confusing to figure out just what you should be paying attention to.

Facebook groups, TikTok, Instagram, Etc. are so oversaturated with terrible advice that it's never a great idea to go there for troubleshooting.

Pets

We all love our pets! Please don't let them near your new piercing! Licking is especially not good for healing! Animal hair can also cause plenty of issues.

Partners

Some piercings are in places our partners sometimes like to enjoy. Looking but no touching is a good rule to put in place during healing. I know kissing can be a wonderful thing, but when healing oral piercings if you can avoid it please do.

This also extends to keeping your partners mouth off of any other areas you've recently gotten pierced, the human mouth is full of bacteria and a little fun time isn't worth the infection.

246 Main St,
Gooding, ID 83330