Hey guys, so I got my scaffolding (ear) done yesterday. My piercer told me NOT to clean it, and that the best thing for a cartilage piercing is to quot;leave it bequot; I trust this advice, but I wanted to ask your opinion or methods that worked for you :) Thanks lt;3
nonono, industrials or notorious for infections. if you don't clean it, imagine how much bacteria is going to be near it since all the folds of the ear and the oils or your hair. I clean my industrial at least twice daily, and I have yet to get an infection though. What I do is Sea Salt Soaks in the morning and night. I put a little emu oil to advoid hypertrophic scarring. and I have kept my hair up every day since getting it pierced to make sure my hair doesn't irritate it while its still in its early healing phase.
To be perfectly honest, I don't clean my piercings while they are healing. I follow the LITHA (leave it the hell alone) method and have never, ever dealt with infection in any of my piercings. But I have also had a pretty good amount of piercings and know my body heals them just fine to not have to mess with them. If this is one of your first piercings and you've not healed a cartilage piercing before, I'd stick to doing sea salt soaks twice a day for 5-10 minutes each soak with 1/4th of a teaspoon of non-iodized sea salt to 8oz of hot water.
