At The Edge Of The Earth

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I went to a popular chain in Canada(and maybe the USA?) called Merle Norman to get my nose pierced earlier in the week. The place itself is fine, they do hair nails and piercings, in separate rooms. I got the piercing done and everything went fine, but then when talking about aftercare, the piercer told me NOT to use salt water because it would dry out the piercing and cause irritation and instead she tried to sell me alcohol based “aftercare” garbage. It left me to wonder how someone who is employed to pierce people for a living actually shunned salt water… 

Well the people that work in chain businesses like this are pretty much appealing to the lowest common denominator and don’t change their tactics or involve themselves in their client’s piercings.
They are a business devoted to that area of people, whom usually won’t take too much care regardless so they give them the aftercare shit because it’s more money for them and it’s “convenient” for the client.
They’ll tell you to stay away from salt water at those places.
A. because they get less money that way.
B. they’d rather not explain that you should really only be using non iodized salt, let alone to say that it’s a quarter of a teaspoon to a cup and the water should be hot, but not too hot, about the temperature of a perfect cup of coffee really.
If they say salt to one person, they’ll tell their friends who’ll tell their friends and it will degrade down to any “salt” and the wrong levels and temperatures.
Remember that some things sold as salts aren’t even actually salts and can cause a fair bit of damage.