by usaf_anders » Sun Nov 08, 2009 6:39 am
congratulations on you new piercing!
as far as aftercare, h2ocean is just salt water with some other junk in it (i dont remember exactly what off the top of my head). that other junk can irritate piercings, depending on your body of course. not to mention, what makes SSS so effective is the warm, soaking effect. this is rather difficult to achieve with h2ocean. i'm currently healing a septum so i understand that soaking your nose can be difficult, but you can always soak a q-tip or cotton ball with the salt water and do a compress with it. there are instructions stickied at the top of the "healing and aftercare" forum. to save you time, money and some math work, the easiest thing i've found is to get a gallon of distilled water from the store, along with some sea salt (make sure there are no anti-caking agents or iodine in it) and mix 4 teaspoons to one gallon of water. then all i do is pour the water into a disposable bathroom sized dixie cup and microwave it for 20 seconds to warm it up. if you do use cotton balls, etc, make sure to use tweezers or something to remove any fibers that may get snagged on the jewelry, as you don't want that left there to irritate the piercing.
hope this helps...
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