Piercing Aftercare
Using the wrong aftercare can lead to irritation, infection, migration and severe scarring. You must trust your body to heal itself and only help it along if it really needs it. Most aftercare instructions concentrate on the the need to keep bacteria away at the expense of the body's natural healing processes, thus reducing the body's ability to heal itself. We need to let nature do all the work in order to end the cycle of infection to antibiotic to more severe infection to stronger antibiotic. We enable the growth of bacteria by trying to fight the natural order. We seem to mistrust nature and our bodies and seem to think that our bodies can't possibly heal without our constant intervention. We introduce bacteria and cause irritation without meaning to just by trying to help. What we need to do is allow nature to take it's course and help only when our help is needed.
The methods we use have been tried and tested thousands of times. Following these aftercare instructions properly will ensure that your piercing heals well. These cleaning instructions may be a little different from other piercers instructions, but we KNOW that these methods work. It's all just common sense, really.
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