Many people from all walks of life enjoy using wax to get rid of unwanted body hair. Unfortunately, waxing leaves skin raw and susceptible to infection, which you and your customers don’t want to happen. Keep reading to get three tips that will help you protect salon customers from skin infections so they can continue to book appointments and leave with healthy skin.
Keep Your Hands and Station Clean
The workstations in your salon should offer safe, clean environments for people to enjoy their waxing experience. Cleaning and disinfecting that station at the beginning or end of the day and between appointments will help ensure that unsafe bacteria are under control. Remind all your employees that they need to wash their hands well between clients and if they touch anything unsanitary while with their clients. Provide plenty of soap and alcohol-based hand sanitizer so they never have to worry about keeping clean for clients.
Keep Your Wax Clean
There are two ways to guarantee that the wax your workers are putting on clients’ skin is safe. You can make them use fresh wax every time or make them use fresh applicators every time. Your choice between the two depends on the size of your wax warmers and your budget for both wax and applicators.
If you have a big enough wax warmer, you can melt a lot of wax at the beginning of the day that your workers can continually dip into. As long as they don’t use an applicator and then put it back in the wax, the wax should stay clean. This means they have to use a new applicator every time, which can get expensive, but it saves time because you don’t have to melt more wax throughout the day.
If you want to save your applicators, your workers can melt smaller batches of wax and reuse the applicator within that wax batch. Afterward, they’ll need to clean the wax melter completely before using it on another client.
Remind Clients To Prepare Skin
One way to keep salon customers from skin infections is to remind them to prepare their skin before their appointment. They should exfoliate the week before, moisturize the day before, and shower the night before or the morning of their appointment. Skin preparation is important to a safe, positive waxing experience. Remind both experienced and new customers about the importance of skin preparation so they can protect their skin from infection before, during, and after the appointment.
Our tips for protecting salon customers from skin infections are to ensure your workers have clean hands, keep their workstations clean, and use clean wax or applicators. They should also remind clients about the importance of preparing their skin. While nothing can guarantee that a skin infection won’t flare up, these precautions make it less likely and will keep your customers happy.