MENU
SEARCHLoading data...
Clients of Glamorous nail in Puerto Rico are Old World when it comes to the conservative nail styles they choose, but they expect – and get – only the latest when it comes to sanitation and training standards.
It’s easy to forget the basic in the clamor over salon sanitation, but just washing goes a long way toward keeping you and your clients healthy.
Laura Mix has a degree in zoology and is a licensed medical technologist. A year ago, she became a licensed nail technician.
Why is it important to have a clean salon? Why should you practice good personal hygiene? Not because they’re fun, or because they’re “the right thing to do,” or even because state board regulations require you to.
If ever the time was ripe for a national standard for nail technician licensing, it is now.
With the decision of a few state boards to require salons to use tuberculocidal disinfectants, manufacturers and industry associations debate whether they are really necessary for use in salons.
The NMC’s safety and standards commission and the Nevada State Board of Cosmetology respond to this and other sanitation questions.
If a state legislation that was introduced in February passes, nail technician students in Tennessee will have to complete 600 hours of education, instead of the currently required 300 hours.
