Ear Piercing question
 

This is just a pretty quick question. I left the solution that I used on my piercings at my boyfriends place. Do I need to stop by the mall and get something similar, or will alcohol or something along those lines work?

Anti-Bacterial or Antimicrobial Liquid Soap/Wash (Like Provon or Satin). Use soaps containing PCMX. it has been tested to be more effective against a broader range of bacteria and yeast thean soaps containing triclosan.

When my ear piercings were new, just regular alcohol on a cotton ball did the job fine.. (my ears never turned green or fell off)

you just keep them under that black cloak :)

unscented antibacterial liquid soap is fine and also sea salt rinses are good for healing too.

Picked up some alcohol at the local Stewarts yesterday. Based on the dust I figure it's been sitting on the shelf for awhile...

Just use a saline solution(regular contact lens solution). I hear antibacterial soaps harm the white blood cells that fix up the damage you caused to your ear by piercing it.

Contact lens solution eh? That's a new one.

i did a lot of research on this when i got my piercing, i was pretty paranoid about it getting infected. i'd regularly clean it out w/ antibacterial soap like everyone suggested (the most reccommended one was the orange Dial liquid soap), made sure to turn the ring so i would get the whole thing and clean out the inside as well. after rinsing, i'd rinse again using a saline solution.

like skier said it's the same stuff for contact lenses, i went to safeway and got the big bulk ones. they look like those old school hairspray cans, HUGE. should be a little stream that you can easily point at your piercing.

congrats on the piercing :)

Antibacterial soap is the best thing for them. Non-Scented! The other best thing is to soak the piercing in a sea-salt / warm water mix.

From what I understand, alcohol is not the best thing for cleaning out your piercings. It can take longer to heal this way because of how it dries you out. I've also heard from a local piercer here that the skin can raise up a little bit around your piercings if you use alcohol or other chemicals to clean them.

I'm not sure how true this is, but when I got my ears pierced last year, I just used antibacterial soap, and when I got my other nipple pierced this year, I used soap twice a day, and sea-salt soaks twice a week. No problems came up at all.

This advice has been really cool, thanks :)

i recommend using castille soap as well as whatever solution you choose to clean your piercing. just wash it out whenever you're in the shower.