I've used epsom salt baths after 48 hours while applying heated epsom salt compresses. I'll hold a hot wash cloth with the salt pressed right on the bruise for 20 mins. When I pull away, parts of the old blood pull away from the surface and it starts to break down and look....uglier...but closer to healing. The center usually whitens up and resembles an eye but it heals faster. Being a model...I need to part with bruising immediately.