What do you use to help your skin?

r3nu4l

So after getting a tattoo/branding/piercing what do you guys use to help your skin heal?

I'm not into tattoos etc but I was talking to someone the other day who mentioned that people use creams to help heal their skin after having some work done...now of course that makes complete sense but it's something I've never thought about before Just wondering?

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Will

I use eucerin, worked quite well for me. Tattoo goo is also quite popular so i hear

Gazelle

I got a tattoo recently in Watergate Tattoo Studio in Kilkenny City. Martin - really friendly professional guy - said to use tattoo goo and he gave me a tin. Being a girl it has a lovely lavender smell and worked really well. I put it on occassionally on tattoo before going out now and it seems to enhance the colour.
Id recommend it and Martin in watergate Kilkenny.

amazingemmet

For a tattoo bephanthen for the first few days then e45 for a week or two after, For a brand the idea is to get it to scar up and keloid so i would just keep it clean.

Zapp Brannigan

Bepanthen. Got the dirtiest look from the woman behind the counter buying it though

rain on

savlon for the first few days, nivea until the scab comes off

Sean7

Good old nappy rash cream, bepanthen.

Karona_Marona

Yep bepanthen all the way for me too... i laughed when i saw it was for nappy rashes though!!

Star Lord

Bepanthen worked wonders for me. Had no scabbing at all, just the peeling you would expect after a couple of days. I dunno if that's more down to the artist or the cream though?

I didn't know it was nappy rash cream either, so asked the pharmacist for it and got a big reddener when he handed me a box of nappy rash cream!

r3nu4l

Yep, in the UK and Ireland Bepanthen is advertised/marketed as a nappy rash cream only.

In Germany and France it is marketed for Nappy Rash and for healing of minor wounds, so don't feel too bad It's a wonder companies don't specifically advertise their products as being good for tattoos as well considering the market must be huge!

Fantasy_Suicide

Bep is the way to go.

I had so many probs when I used e45 on one of my other pieces.
NIGHTMARE!

Junior

For my first one I was told to use Prep H, if you were getting dirty looks for Bep imagine my embarssment asking for that, anyways by the time I got my second one a year later I was using Nivea for men, worked a treat on the second tat.

Now I just use E45 whenever I get out of the shower on both of them..

sarahn11

Prepheration H for me....Stinks to high heven but works very well!! used it on my first tat and the color is still great...used tattoo goo on my second and third...color aint so good....now on my 4th and back on the prepheration h....


....And my hemeroids have cleared up nicely too!! j.k!!

Shiminay

Yea, last tat I got I used Preparation H too, got major looks of sympathy from the girl in the chemist and subsequently confusion when I said it was to help a tattoo heal.

Magic Eight Ball

Bepanthen all the way!

Jam400

Bepanthen worked like a charm,wrecked a few of me t-shirts though!