Would it be ok to use St.Ives Intensive Healing Body Cream for aftercare it is 100% fragrance free, hypo allergenic and non irritating it only has five ingredients Olive Leaf Extract,Cranberry,Cocoa Butter,Grapeseed Oil and Mango Seed Butter that's it.
St.Ives for Aftercare
3 messages · last activity 3/11/2011
If you don't use it normally see if your allergic to cranberries mangos etc.
try it for a week before tattooing. see if you breakout even before putting all over your new investment.
As I read the ingredients this stuff is not what I would put on a scratch even. Cranberries sting.
I would avoid St Ives products as they tend to have vitamin E ( tocopherol ) and vitamin E , like honey is a drawing and healing agent. Using skin creams with those products in them can cause stinging and result in you losing ink...requiring more touch ups.