for tongue piercings YES. but i don't recommend it for swellings or cracks, bcause it will hurt a lot and i doesn't do anything. saltwater is just for new piercings to heal and prevent from infections.
If you were to clean your piercing with salt by itself, it would certainly hurt! What people actually clean their piercing with is saline solution- a mix of sea salt and water. (A good ratio to use is 1 table spoon of salt per cup of water.) The saline solution itself should not hurt your piercing. However, sometime cleaning a piercing will irritate it. This may hurt, but the salt is not responsible.
Pure salt would irritate the piercing (hence the phrase "to pour salt on a wound," meaning to make things worse); a relatively mild saline solution can be used to clean it.
Any grocery store.
Keep the piercing & your mouth clean.Rinse twice a day with a diluted alcohol-free antimicrobial mouthwash (Tech 2000 or Biotene) and twice a day with saline (1/4 tsp non-iodized sea salt in 8 oz. warm water).
Iodized salt is the best to use !
Salt water is great for cleansing sores in your mouth (gargling it at least). Can't see why that would be bad for cleansing your tongue piercing. (Just don't swallow! Ouch.)
Iodized salt is not organic. It's inorganic.
http://www.tradekey.com/ks-iodized-salt/
why is iodized salt important to the midwest
Iodized salt comes from Iodine, a necessary micronutrient!
No margarita salt is not iodized. If it was the margarita would be fizzy.