What Makes An Excellent Aftercare Product? Part II
Part II will discuss the components to look for in excellent care ointments.
We will be writing a separate post just for soaps and washes, which are also critical to excellent care.
Excellent Tattoo Care- 3 Components to Look For:
- A Combination of High Quality Nutrient Rich Natural Butters & Waxes
Examples of these are murumuru butter, cocoa butter, mango butter, shea butter, capuacu butter, rice bran wax, carnauba wax, calendula wax, bees wax- a super food for healing, to name a few.
Why?
A combination of butters that is able to penetrate the skin and act as protection make a natural care choice accepted by the skin and not rejected.
They will not clog the pores when used in proper percentages. These ingredients have a balanced omega, amino acid and vitamin rich combination and are excellent for healing results.
Many of these butters and waxes also have anti-bacterial & anti-inflammatory properties.
2. Therapeutic Grade Essential Oils
Why?
There is a huge difference between therapeutic grade essential oils and cheaply processed oils. Find a product that is committed to therapeutic grade, not just “organic” oils.
High quality potency is the focus.
3. High Quality Carrier Oils
Why?
It won’t matter how awesome the essential oils are if there isn’t a high quality “carrier oil” to deliver the nutrients into the tissue you need to heal.
Think of a beautiful love letter that sits in the envelope but never gets delivered to the recipient. Pretty useless.
Examples of great carrier oils are:
*Argan *Evening Primrose *Grape Seed *Pumpkin Seed *Apricot seed *Tamanu (one of my fav’s) *Rice Bran *Neem
These carrier oils are also rich with omegas and vitamins.
If you used the horse and buggy methods of the past, your tattoo healed…but those products didn’t really help much.
Using mindful products does make a difference.
Your healing experience is far superior using products carefully crafted for the unique needs of healing tattoos. Particularly if your artist starts you off by using these products during the tattoo process.
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This is a discussion you can have with your artist. I have found that artists do like to carefully experiment with new things, if the ingredient deck looks reasonable.
In our next blog, we will discuss SOAPS & WASHES for tattoo healing.