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Can triple antibiotic ointment be good for tattoos?
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Only if infected: Triple antibiotic ointment is used to treat or prevent skin infections. It is neither good or bad for tatoos.
Answered 6/24/2019
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Not really.: If you're healing after a tattoo, using triple antibiotic ointment only triples the likelihood of having an allergic or hypersensitivity reaction--most common with the neomycin in triple antibiotic. Keep clean and use Bacitracin (single) or polysporin (bacitracin and polymyxin) (double) antibiotic ointment instead.
Answered 7/11/2017
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