Can I use hand sanitizer to disinfectant my ear before piercing?

I believe hand sanitizer would be okay, but it's not advisable to pierce at home as infection is possible. Wear gloves or at least make sure your hands are clean when doing this. If it's not your ears you're piercing I recommend not doing it at all. When I was in HS 3 girls pierced their belly buttons and all 3 got hellacious infections from it.   1 reply

Its not advised to pierce your ears if you have no experience because of ear infections but yeah using hand sanitizer should be okay. Rubbing alcohol is easier but honestly anything to disinfect ears works.   2 reply

Are u piercing ur lobes? If it’s a piercing kit gun then prolly a really bad idea to pierce anything but lobes   1 reply

if ur gonna use hand sanitizer to clean ur ear before piercing make sure it says it has isopropyl alcohol or just anything thats antiseptic. but after that make sure not to put any alcohol near ur ear and just use saline(salt water) to clean it out. also make sure the needle is sterilized before u go and pierce ur ear! if it’s not ur ear will get......   reply