What is Sanitation

Sanitation is the practice of using cleaning, disinfection, and sterilization to reduce or eliminate harmful microorganisms from surfaces, tools, and the environment to prevent the spread of diseases. Let’s define some words:

• Cleaning: The initial step in sanitation, where you physically removing visible debris like liquids, and oils from surfaces by washing, sweeping, clearing away, or other appropriate method.
• Disinfection: After cleaning, reusable tools and surfaces are treated with EPA registered hospital-grade disinfectants to eliminate harmful bacteria, fungi, and viruses on surfaces.
• Sterilization: This process removes all microorganisms, including spores, and is used for tools that penetrate the skin. Illinois cosmetology regulations do not allow for practices that penetrate the skin and affect the living layers of the skin.

My Sanitation & Disinfection Practices

Storing Tools and Supplies

• Store clean towels in a closed space
• Store disposables (waxing sticks, wax strips) and tools (tweezers, scissors, trimmers) in closed containers
  • Keep used tools separate from disinfected tools

Sanitation Before and During Waxing Service

• Hand washing with soap and water or equally effective waterless hand sanitizer before and after each client
• Use new pair of nitrile gloves on every client
• Immediately throw away wax sticks and other disposables, like esthetic wipes, after use
  • No double dipping the wax sticks from the can, to the client, and back into the can again- use each wax stick ONCE

Sanitation After Waxing Service

• After a wax service, use a lint roller to collect any fallen hair and sanitize the bed with Prevention Disinfectant Spray to remove any debris/oil on the bed
• Wipe bed and any touched surfaces/products with Cavi Wipes Disinfection Towelettes, which are tuberculocidal, bactericidal, viricidal, and fungicidal
• Place all used cloth towels into lidded laundry basket
• Wash used tools (tweezers, scissors) with soap and water, then place them in a closed container and fully submerge in Barbicide for 15 minutes to disinfect
• brush away hair from trimmers with a brush
  • spray clippers and guards with Clippercide solution
  • wash brushes with soap and water, allow to dry, and spray with 70% isopropyl alcohol

I take my sanitation practices very seriously to keep my clients safe.

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