ACCRA, Ghana – Monday, June 29, 2020/ https://africanpostonline.com/—Amid covid-19, salon hygiene must be taken seriously without any compromise.
Considering a busy salon, especially on weekends, you are sure to ask how they get to clean all the instruments and tools used on one person before using on another. A friend narrated her experience in a salon.
According to her, the hairdresser in the salon urinated in a container. She was shocked and never went there. Another said, one day, I saw a lady with her towels and hair tools in the salon. I was not only perplexed but sent into a world full of thoughts and wonders. Why would she carry all that? Are there not all such staffs in the salon? I was curious to ask, and the answer was I am avoiding diseases.
From our research, we found out that, in between clients, the wet towels used are gathered up and tumble dry or sundry by some salons. Consider a cut, scalp condition, fungus, ringworm, keloid, bacteria, lice, fungus, wart viruses, herpes, yeast infections and many more.
Undoubtedly, unhygienic salons pose a risk of cross-infection and point of contracting covid-19.
One drop of blood invisible to the naked eye on a comb, towel, sink, nail clipper, could be infected with hepatitis. Its believed that some people were infected with HIV/AIDS in the salon. Most salons now require you to buy your blade, nail clipper, and needle.
With where I braid my hair, I buy everything and even the comb. Some salons will provide file bags for individual customers. These contain files, manicure brushes and buffers that are used on your nails only. They clean them before and after each use and given to the customer to bring along on the next service.
Does your salon work surfaces to keep it clean and safe? A clean salon does not only prevent the risk of cross-infection. It also has the advantage of making the salon look far more attractive too! The use of an alcohol-based sanitizer and disinfectants are very crucial and must be used daily in a salon. I have been to a salon where the sink was unwashed after a client’s hair was washed with the comb, and the pieces of retouched hair left inside. I did not hesitate to ask the hairdresser to clean it before she washed my hair. I never went back to that salon. Some even wash their dirty hands inside the sink after eating. Too bad!
Lately, most top salons thoroughly sanitized or sterilize as needed, in between clients, instruments and tools used. With all the technically advanced products that quicken, is easy and a cost-effective way of preventing cross infections in the salon, a salon has no excuse at all.
Ask yourself the following questions when you chose a salon;
- Is the salon hygiene sensitive to be able to look after you?
- How sure are you that you will leave beautiful and satisfied and not with a nasty infection.
- Are hands well washed?
- Did they carry out a client consultation, checking for contra-indications?
- Is the floor of the salon clean?
- Is the salon well ventilated?
- Are disposable, single-use items (cotton balls, gauze, used blades, used needles, etc.) replaced with new ones?
Do not take chances. Save yourself the time, money and trouble by going to a hygienic salon and if necessary take along some of your tools. It is the beauty you want, not diseases.
A salon may want to save time and money by overlooking hygienic practices. But in the long run, they will lose clients as a bad word gets around faster than pleasant word.
A good salon should not only be good at fixing hair and beauty but ensure hygienic practices are in place to ensure working tools and surfaces are not spreading viruses and infection through cross-contamination.
Source: Renate Dzodzomenyo -African Post Online
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Renate is a lawyer, publicist, and writer. She believes that education and information is the key to developing and shaping Africa. In her free time, she paints beautiful art pieces on canvas. Renate believes that life is a perception, and you live it the way you perceive it.
