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Posted on: May 13, 2013
Follow Guidelines
A hair removal specialist must follow hygienic and sanitary standard practices to protect clients from dangerous pathogens. Each geographic region has specific guidelines or laws pertaining to the cleanliness and safety of beauty salons and spas. Trained health inspectors make periodic visits to businesses that provide beauty, hair care or spa treatments to customers.
Official Inspections
The periodic official inspection of the facility includes viewing equipment such as shampoo bowls, reclining tables, chairs, combs, brushes, shavers and scissors. The inspector may collect swab samples in the facility to look under a microscope for bacteria or fungi. In addition, officials will watch the hair removal specialist working with clients to observe if hygienic and sanitary standard practices are performed correctly.
Proper Training
Clients often visit beauty salons or spas to have excess hair removed from various parts of the body. A hair removal specialist should have adequate training in different methods of hair removal. A training program for an aesthetician will teach different ways to remove hair from customers using shavers, razors, lasers, tweezers, waxes, electrolysis, epilators and depilatory chemicals.
Sanitizing Equipment
A hair removal specialist must sanitize equipment with antiseptic agents that destroy infectious pathogens. Laundering linens such as towels and sheets in hot water after each client is required. After hair is removed from a client, it must be placed in a lidded container immediately. The facility providing spa treatments must frequently vacuum and wash floors to avoid spreading infection.
Washing Hands
The hair removal specialist is also required to follow personal hygienic and sanitary standard practices such as thoroughly washing hands before performing procedures on clients. In addition, hand washing is necessary after visiting a restroom, eating, smoking or touching trash. To avoid contamination from scratches an aesthetician’s fingernails are trimmed to a short length.
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