Sanitizing Jewelry For Piercings
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Saturday July 26th, 2008 @ 6:27 AM
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Does anybody knows where I can buy a antiseptic/sanitizer to sanitize jewerly for piercings?
First one most comprehend what the term “Sanitizing” fully means.
Making something sanitized only means you’re partially removing certain harmful micro-organisms. You can use things like alcohol, hand-sanitizer, boil it in water, whatever number of “sanitizing” products.
However if you’re looking to STERILIZE your jewelry and make it 100% virtually VOID of micro-organisms/bacteria. Then the ONLY option is to process the jewelry through an autoclave/sterilizer. Which through the introduction of steam and heat that joins forces to build up pressure as well, is the ONLY way to go about sterilizing something effectively. To eliminate all potentially harmful micro-organisms/bacteria.
There are no liquids, no napkins, no soaking agents,etc that will effectively sterilize jewelry, only sanitize. And unfortunately when it comes to body jewelry, the only viable option would be to sterilize…
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2 Responses to “Sanitizing Jewelry For Piercings”
It’s not clear whether the person is asking about initial jewellery for fresh piercings or jewellery for HEALED piercings, though. For well-healed piercings shouldn’t sanitizing be perfectly acceptable?
Xenobiologista on August 4th, 2008 at 8:09 pmare you referring to jewelry bought recently or jewelry that’s been lying around at home Xenobiologista?
If its first bought I always offer to sterilize any metal, pyrex based jewelry.
Obviously if someone is buying acrylic, any means of sanitizing or sterilizing will quite often break that material down.
If its for jewelry you’ve had lying around the home I simply have to ask: where the heck you putting your jewelry, that would require you to sanitize it…With steel/pyrex, even acrylic,etc…realistically all that needs to be done is rinse them with some mild soap and water and rinse well and dry.
Warren Hiller on August 4th, 2008 at 8:25 pmLeave a Comment