How to Sterilize Body Jewelry

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Noel Garcia the owner of New Age Body Piercing in Coconut Grove, Miami. In this clip I'm going to show you how to sterilize body jewelry. In a professional environment, a piercing store we use an autoclave. It's professional equipment using medical physicians to sterilize equipment for surgeries and so on. Usually in these packages this is a non-clean environment that means it hasn't been cleaned there are still colors like you see. Once it is sterilized it changes color from brown to a yellowish kind of. Usually that's different colors but here is blue and pink and here is brown and what they call a yellow and how do you know when stuff in a studio is actually sterilized and clean. The front looks the same. They're both in a package, they're both right here, in the back one is dirty and one is not so you see what I mean. This is for you guys to actually check when you go get pierced or tattooed or whatever, what is clean and what is not clean, always check those labels. Now if you are at home and you cannot sterilize your equipment but your piercing is actually old, it's clean, it's healed and it is touchable it is always good to wash your hands first of all. Get the jewelry you have. Either wash it with nice warm water or some cold water. If you have got some alcohol put in some alcohol and get it clean first, kill whatever bacterias you can. Don't forget home is not the best environment to clean something sterile so do your best, some alcohol really good then rinse it with some water, make sure you having something clean when you are doing all of this and once again what you are going to use is a little bit of some kind of lubrication to remove the ball whatever you are using put it in and that's pretty much your best way to sterilize. In your house is always keep it clean. For example you are at home, some kind of cup, this is a medical cup but whatever you have at home, a little bit of alcohol to keep it clean, drop it over a little bit, let the jewelry sit there for a little bit to get clean, you know any kind of sterilize the best you can do at home. Once you get done you remove it. If you have got some fresh water at home and you are going to clean everything once again some fresh water, you clean it, you dump it again, you do it again. If you have some of this stuff some kind of saline solution with water for your piercing very good to use too and that's about it and that's the best we can actually sterilize body jewelry at home the best way you can try to not do this kind of stuff with stones in it. Stones tend to collect a lot more bacteria, usually sort of simple stuff and this has been how to take care of your body jewelry at home."