Temporary alternative to sea salt for aftercare?
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Wednesday September 2nd, 2009 @ 1:13 PM
Filed under: Piercing
I ran out of sea salt today to do the soak for my navel (almost two months old) and the cotton ball compress for my nose (one week old). I don’t have any H2Ocean spray left, nor any tea tree oil. My bank account is at less than a dollar until next week (needed groceries and used the last of my money for that), so I can’t go buy anything.
So, what can I use for the next five days until my paycheck comes in? I know not to use peroxide, alcohol or iodized table salt. I have some kosher salt in my cabinet, but I don’t know if that’s acceptable and I don’t want to risk it without some expert opinions on the matter. My sister has some ear care solution left over from her Claire’s piercing a while back but I don’t know if I trust that either. The other sister has saline solution but it’s for her contacts, and I’m pretty sure one is NOT supposed to use saline for contacts as aftercare for a piercing.
Input would be very helpful, as my navel piercing has decided that TODAY, the day I inconveniently run out of the best aftercare stuff, is a good day to start acting up. It doesn’t have a bump and isn’t infected, but it’s acting like it did at three days old. Lots of lymph, a little blood, and a bit tender (I blame period hormones, sorry for TMI). Will warm water alone do me any good until I can afford a box of sea salt?
Short answer: yes, warm water in the shower is fine. Iodised table salt probably isn’t the end of the world, either. Kosher salt is almost certainly ok, too. I’d stay well away from the Claire’s stuff and everything else, though. And dang, how much is salt where you live? You can get, like, a kilo of plain sea salt (cooking salt) at Woolie’s here in Oz for, like, a dollar. 0_o
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6 Responses to “Temporary alternative to sea salt for aftercare?”
Well, the thing was that I didn’t even have a dollar in my bank account (I was at 87 cents) and I rarely have any cash unless I have to cross the toll roads for some reason. I made do with warm water in the shower for those few days and got through just fine. I got paid yesterday and sea salt was at the top of my list (it’s $2.38 for a pound at my local WalMart, since you asked, lol).
Samyra on September 2nd, 2009 at 8:46 pmI’m glad to hear it all worked out ok, heh.
Lori St.Leone on September 3rd, 2009 at 1:39 amSea Salt was $3.99 for a box of it at my local Jewel. I’m in Chicago.
tanyad on September 7th, 2009 at 9:34 pmThis is kind of on the same subject so I’ll ask this here and see what people have to say…
Shay on September 9th, 2009 at 4:46 amGrowing up, I lived on an island so I was always around the ocean. My mom always mentioned how if she had a cut or anything when she was a kid, she would go to the bay and soak it. I’ve done it as well whether it’s really sanitary or not, but I am pretty curious as to whether or not it is a bad idea. It seemed to help heal wounds and clear up infections with regular ol’ cuts… Haven’t tried it with piercings though. I guess I’m just curious if it IS sanitary enough to use for s deep ‘wound’ like a piercing..? Chilling in the ocean is just kind of calming, and I do like any excuse to go to the beach…
My piercer gave me a bag of non-iodized sea salt when I got every one of my piercings done, and she said that I could always come back and get more if I run out of salt. Luckily, it’s only about $.50 for one bl or 10oz of salt where I’m at (charlotte NC)
Diana on September 12th, 2009 at 3:31 pmShay- I”m gonna take a guess that the ocean is not particularly sanitary. It’s full of fish and pollution and sand and microscopic creatures. I don’t know that it would harm you to go swimming in it, but I wouldn’t soak a healing piercing in it.
Katey on October 16th, 2009 at 5:38 pmLeave a Comment