no alcohol for a
few days




wash with an
antibacterial soap




always keep it
clean




mouthwash for
oral piercing

Professional Hygiene

Most people have to be made conscious about cross-contamination. Because it affects almost all common actions (open a door, moving the bed, holding the phone, closing a drawer, taking a mirror), bacteria can spread easily and infect others without realizing. Usually dirty or contaminated hands or contaminated gloves cause cross-contamination. During or after a piercing, the piercer should not touch anything else than the piercing tools used for this piercing. Everything else should be covered with some protective sheet of plastic or paper (set-up table space) or the piercer has to take off his gloves before touching this (scissors, tape, paper, phone, pen, etc). we have been trained in importance of hygiene and are fully aware of cross-contamination. All of our tools and jewelry to pierce with are guaranteed sterilized.

Personal hygiene

The person being pierced should not touch the piercing nor the skin around it, and if done this, will have to wash his/her hands immediately after (not touching the waterhandles with dirty hands but with a paper towel for instance). Check for yourself how clean you are and how clean the piercer is working. Since a piercing usually takes a few weeks or longer to heal, you will have to be extra conscious about your own cross-contamination; don`t touch your hair and then your piercing. Don`t touch your piercing anyway, except for cleaning it, with clean hands. Dirty nails, especially long nails can easily cause an infection when touching it..

Aftercare sheet

After being pierced we will first explain you how to take care of it and what to pay attention to. And we will give you an after-carepaper where all cleaning en careinformation is written down for your piercing to heal well. Below is an example of ours.

Fortunately piercing shops are being checked by the Amsterdam Health Department, the GG&GD. Their task is to give advice about hygiene on interior, machines, the way to pierce and how to clean it all. And they also come and check if you are really working in a safe and clean way, which they will judge with an extensive report. Since the GG&GD only check piercing-places in Amsterdam up till now, this is probably the safest city in Holland to get pierced! You can always ask them for advice about where to go. As we are a very serious piercingshop in a dangerous ‘world’ we are happy to be taken serious also by the health department.

Of course we are very aware of hygiene and of cross-contamination. The piercingshop is considered to be very responsible and serious about it. And we always try to stay openminded for new developments and new Id`s.


click here for the aftercare sheet