Sea Salt

popecatapetal · 09-09-2007 5:28pm #1

Hey All,

I've gotten a couple of piercings in the last few months, and I've always stuck to the after care advice rigidly, but I've recently started to wonder - why sea salt? Why is everyone always so firm that it has to be sea salt? Surely they're both the same type of salt? I would have thought sea salt, from the method used to produce it, would even have more impurities in it - cos we as a race aren't too worried about using it as a sewer.

As a budding scientist, I'd quite like to know. Thank you:)

Stark · 09-09-2007 8:40pm

The iodine in normal table salt is damaging to the wounded tissue.

popecatapetal · 11-09-2007 12:01pm

Cheers, that explains a lot:)

CorsetRibbons · 11-09-2007 4:18pm

Can one gargle sea salt water for healing oral piercings?

amazingemmet · 11-09-2007 4:24pm

yup thats the prefered way in my book. about 1/4 teaspoon of salt per 300ml of water.

bounty_hunter · 12-09-2007 1:38pm

CorsetRibbons wrote:

Can one gargle sea salt water for healing oral piercings?

You can do if you can stomach it. Be prepared for it to make you sick though!

Will · 12-09-2007 1:47pm

gargling shouldnt do much to you, if you swallow it though...different story

popecatapetal · 13-09-2007 5:41pm

If the salt water you use to clean your piercings is so salty that you'd hurl if you swallowed it, you are using waaaaay too much salt. Half a teaspoon to a mug of water is the max you should use - I used stronger than that on my nose for a while, and I got a huge keloid inside. Not fun.

Attol · 14-09-2007 12:19am

Ooh, what you get pierced? Get your snakebites in the end?

popecatapetal · 14-09-2007 9:55am

Still waiting for those - setbacks galore. I should be getting them done monday week. It was SUPPOSED to be monday, but then they told us about a random field trip to the bog somewhere, so I'm waiting til after that so I can take care of them properly. I can't wait!

Will · 14-09-2007 9:59am

popecatapetal wrote:

If the salt water you use to clean your piercings is so salty that you'd hurl if you swallowed it, you are using waaaaay too much salt. Half a teaspoon to a mug of water is the max you should use - I used stronger than that on my nose for a while, and I got a huge keloid inside. Not fun.

excess of sea salt shouldnt cause a keloid to form, unless you just pour the salt straight on...

Sea Salt

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