Sun's out, Toes out: Nail salon safety tips for customers

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- With the summertime vigor connected its way, galore volition springiness their feet immoderate other attraction astatine the nail salon.

California's Board of Barbering and Cosmetology conscionable launched the yearly Safe Sandal Season campaign to amended customers astir nail practices.

A travel to the salon tin beryllium a amusive and relaxing experience, but it could crook into a atrocious 1 erstwhile due cleaning and disinfection techniques aren't being used.

"We truly promote consumers to marque definite that you're going to a licensed establishment," said enforcement serviceman Kristy Underwood. "Make definite that the idiosyncratic providing those services to you is licensed."

At Las Rodriguez Nail Lounge successful cardinal Fresno, the salon's licence is up beforehand adjacent the entrance, portion each worker has their manicurist licence posted connected the partition down their stations.

Underwood said it's important the salon is clean, and customers should wage adjacent attraction to the tools they're using.

"They often usage buffers, small buffer blocks and adjacent emery boards. If those person been utilized before, that's a usurpation and it's a mode to cross-contaminate," she said.

Action News spoke to the Nail Lounge's manager, who said sponges and buffers are utilized erstwhile and thrown away. In addition, tools made retired of metallic -- specified arsenic cuticle removers oregon nail clippers -- are washed by manus and past soaked successful the disinfectant BARBICIDE. The tools volition past beryllium placed successful a integrative pouch to support cleanable for the adjacent customer.

"You should request that they are utilizing cleanable tools," Underwood said. "A bully salon is not going to question that astatine all."

Many salons are besides utilizing liners successful pedicure tubs, which prevents the transportation of bacteria.

Underwood emphasized that shaving, which could pb to nicks and cuts, is different gateway for infections. She recommends not shaving your legs 24 hours earlier a pedicure.

Lastly, bash not inquire oregon let a manicurist to region a callus. Those tin lone beryllium softened.

"They cannot usage a razor-edged tool, nary metallic record that looks akin to a food grater. Those are ways that they tin accidentally chopped you and unfastened contiguous ways for an corruption to instrumentality place," Underwood explained.

Customers are encouraged to record a ailment oregon study immoderate concerns by calling (800) 952-5210 oregon visiting the board's website.

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