1. Wash Hands – I don’t just mean wash hands once a day. I mean your beautician needs to wash their hands in front of you before each treatment. Washing hands is not just running the hands through some water. Your therapist needs to thoroughly clean it with disinfected soap. If your treatment has been interrupted, pay close attention to see if they wash their hands again. (who knows, they could have went on a toilet break).

2. Disposable paper towels or other single use hand drying equipment is required to be at the hand basin. There’s no point washing and disinfecting your hands and then make it dirty again with a hand towel that has been wiped a 100 times and harvested with germs.

3. Fingers can be quite handy and convenient for removing products (creams, lotions, wax, scrubs etc ) from jars. But the problem is that our hands are normally contaminated with all sorts of nasties. You put a large microscope around your nails and you’ll be shocked to see all the microscopic germs. Now each time a therapist dips its hands into the jar, the germs gets transferred onto the product and this leads to product contamination which can will ultimately end up on your skin. Equipment such as a sterilized spoon or spatula should be used instead.

4. One of the most asked for treatment at a beauty salon is waxing. Lets start with the waxing bed. The bed should be disinfected with hospital grade solution and a towel, or protective covering should be placed on the bed. The towels and protective covering should be washed and cleaned with each use.

This should be the same when getting massages, manicures, pedicures or any activities with a table or bed.

5. Hair removal agents such as wax or sugar solutions should never be recycled or reused. (I know, its disgusting. But I know that some rotten beauticians do reuse the wax). Also, a beauty therapist should never “double dip” a spatula into a wax pot. This is once again to prevent contamination of the product.

6. I get a lot of feedback from customers complaining about developing a fungal infection after getting a manicure or pedicure. A fungal problem can easily be transmitted to another person via a used nail or toenail file. Nail files should be disposable and can only be used once and thrown away or given to the customer.

7. Any used or excess product (moisturisers, mask, exfoliant, scrubs) should never be returned to the original containers.

8. Cotton tips, cotton wool and sponges are the #1 tools for harvesting unfriendly bacteria. Needless to say, these tools should all be new and disposable when working on your skin and thrown out with each application.

All cosmetic brushes should be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected for each client. Ideally any brushes used for the eye area, such as mascara brushes or eye liner brushes should be disposable. I’ve heard of way too many customers developing an eye infection or itchiness around the eyes as a result of using unclean eye tools. Eye pencils should always be sharpened with each new customer.

9. When carrying out a skin penetration procedure, single use gloves must be worn.

10. A clean garment or overcoat should be worn during any treatment. A clean gown or apron must be worn for skin penetration procedures.

The next time you visit a beauty salon, be sure to observe the hygienic behavior of your beauty therapist. Keep in mind that these hygienic practices should also be followed at home.

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