Not Medical Advice: Any soap with perfumes in it will cause more irritation. Most of the perfumes in soaps and lotions contain rubbing alcohol to dilute the chemical.
Rubbing alcohol will burn, and dry out the tattoo. It will cause your body to work three or four times harder to heal as well as breaking up the pigment under your skin.
Most tattoo artists recommend a non-scented antibacterial soap because a tattoo is still a wound. Infection does not come from the tattoo shop. You can get infection from hitting your exposed wound on something else that's infected. You will need to wash it two or three times a day to prevent infection.
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