5 top recommendations for healing your new piercing
• Dirty Hands
– Never touch your fresh/healing piercing with unwashed hands!
• Minimal Jewellery Movement
- Fresh piercings need to be left alone as much as possible, so no twisting, turning, knocking, touching or fiddling with the jewellery. Move the jewellery as little as possible when cleaning.
• Removing jewellery
– Leave jewellery in at all times, piercings can heal over quickly making reinsertion difficult. In the event an infection is suspected, please see your piercer or GP and follow instructions given.
• Pressure
- Do not sleep/lay on your healing piercing. (A flight cushion is handy to prevent this) Do not restrict your piercing with any tight clothing. Pressure can make piercings very sore and may cause ‘granulomus’ lumps to appear.
• Downsize
– It is important that you return to the studio when advised, to downsize the jewellery you where pierced with. Swelling jewellery left in too long can cause issues.
Recommended Cleaning Products
• Stericlens Saline (Available from Samsara Studio)
• NeilMed or H2Ocean (Available Online)
• Fragrance Free/ Unscented liquid soap (Sanex Zero, Dove, Simple)
• Anti-bacterial, Alcohol Free Mouthwash – For Oral piercings.
• Mouth rinse (Bottled water with ¼ tsp sea salt) – For oral piercings.
We do not recommend using any other products than what we have advised above!