Belly Button Piercing Aftercare Tips and The Best Products

Follow these tips and your navel will heal quickly!

Proper belly button piercing aftercare is needed to heal your “brand new” navel piercing. The faster your new piercing heals, the sooner you can try new belly rings!

Some girls want to treat their fresh belly button piercings with some spirit thinking that it would disinfect the piercing therefore healing it quicker. Wrong! Very wrong.

Spirit disinfects wounds but what your fresh navel piercing needs is - healing. There are a few main belly button piercing aftercare tips to observe when you take care of your navel piercing.

Use mild antibacterial soap once a day while taking shower. You can lather up a drop of soap and apply on your navel piercing. Leave it for a while and then wash it off.

Apply salt solution on your fresh navel piercing every day. Just soak some cotton wool with saline solution and place over your navel. If there’s some crusting on the belly ring, remove it gently.

You can make saline solution at home - dilute about 4 teaspoons of non iodized sea salt to 1 gallon of boiled water and apply on your piercing twice a day. Or you can buy a saline solution at a drugstore or on the Net.

Don’t forget to soak your piercing with saline solution after your piercing seems to be well healed and there’s no puss coming out and crusting doesn’t form.

Belly ring materials that improve aftercare

Your piercing will secrete fluids for some time and they will crust on your belly ring. You’ll clean it with belly button piercing aftercare sticks or saline solution, of course. But it may become infected anyway and you should choose a belly button ring that can reduce the likelihood of infection. Bioplast is a material proven to possess such qualities and you can get bioplast navel ring in great colors and styles.

Another option for the first time belly button ring is PTFE material. This material has a non-stick surface, in other words, body fluids don’t stick to it, thus improving the quality of belly button piercing aftercare.

PTFE is a white material and doesn’t come in colors, unlikely flexible plastic that cannot be used for initial piercings. Some sellers mistakenly sell flexible plastic as PTFE, so watch out - real PTFE doesn’t come in colors! PTFE material is used for piercings for pregnant women because of its flexibility and you can buy the shaft separately and choose the endings that you like.

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