How do you clean new earrings before wearing them?
Dip a cotton ball or cotton swab into a capful of rubbing alcohol or specialized piercing and earring cleaning solution and apply to the front and back of the earlobes and the earring. Gently rotate the earring in the ear for several turns. Repeat this process once or twice each day until the holes have healed.
How do you sterilize jewelry at home?
Should you disinfect earrings?
Disinfect!
Clean them with antibacterial soap or rubbing alcohol once a week. For regular every day jewelry use warm water, cleanser, and a toothbrush. Pearl jewelry should be cleaned with mild soap and warm water as well.
What to clean new piercing with?
Mild Liquid Soap
While sea salt soaks and/or saline rinses are the preferred aftercare for most piercings, soap effectively removes the residue of sweat, dirt, skin oils, cosmetics, cigarette smoke, and natural discharge that can sometimes remain after a salt water soak or saline rinse.