hi,,anyone ever use listerine as a pre prep on skin back in the day,,had to laugh at a friend ov mine who decided to start using it again in his studio,,as he missed the smell ov it,,i thought to myself ,why not use it as its intended purpose and u will smell it all day,,haha

i think most people tend to get bogged into the american way of thinking

Never heard of it being used as a skin prep always used isapropinol now gone over to alcohol based gel

aye,when i say back in the day,im going back 25 year,,it was almost impossible to get isopro alchohol,listerine was used by a lot ov tattooists as pre prep and in the wash down,

i remember a few who used it to tattoo over existing work to reduce red reaction

The smell of listerine always reminds me of tattoo studios years ago.

It was also used to mix up your colours.

It wasn’t just the smell of Listerine in the old tattoo studios.

Some used Lysol in the spray bottle and Coal Tar soap to wash their hands.

Terry’s tattoo studio back in the 1970’s had this distinctive smell.

Combine all these smells and you have the old time traditional tattoo studio smell.

Bill Skuse in Aldershot used to wipe all finished tattoos with TCP before covering them.

He had one of those old 1/3 pint small milk bottles full of TCP and a piece of cotton wool sticking out of the top.  So his studio always had the smell of TCP.

I’m using diluted Dettol for skin prep which you can’t help but smell of old school Tattoo studio.

I’ve been hearing of people using a bit of Listerine in the pigments to keep them flowing but not as skin prep any more.

Isn’t it a mouthwash?????????

IPA for our gloves, tips, grips and so on.

Woody & Maryann