What is soaking good for?
If your piercing is sore, discharging, red, or just generally “acting up”, soaking your piercing with a hot sea salt compress will help. Directions: mix 1.4 teaspoon of sea salt* in 1 cup hot (not scalding) water and hold the inverted cup over the piercing for 5-10 minutes. Remove the cup before the water gets too cool because the tissue will begin to constrict. Warm salt water soaks allow the tissue/piercing to relax and draws irritation out of the piercing. *Sea salt should be used instead of of regular table salt, which tends to have extra unwanted chemicals/additives.
