A customer leaving a beauty salon should have a smile of satisfaction on his face for having obtained a beautiful appearance and the certainty that no uninvited guest in micro dimensions has entered his bloodstream. This certainty is provided only by strict hygiene in the treatment room and ancillary rooms: before, during and after the procedure. This is the strict sanitary-epidemiological policy we implement in our salons in Wroclaw and Warsaw – based on the regulations contained in the Regulation of the Minister of Health of February 17, 2004 on the detailed sanitary requirements to be met by hairdressing, cosmetic, tattoo and biological renewal establishments.
Washing, disinfecting or sterilizing?
The rule is simple: first wash, then disinfect or sterilize – what you can (that is, metal instruments and glass auxiliary accessories). If something is not allowed to be sterilized, the item undergoes another cycle of disinfection.
Washing involves the mechanical removal of dirt and some of the microorganisms – using soap or other agents, usually of a so-called surface-active nature. This is the simplest way to get rid of dirt, but, unfortunately, ineffective for eliminating the microbiological threat. When removing the latter, washing is only the first step in the steps taken to get rid of biological agents potentially hazardous to health.
Disinfection involves the removal of microbial material by immersing objects cleaned of dirt in a liquid with disinfectant properties, or by spraying or wiping this agent on surfaces to be sterilized. More effective than washing, but does not give 100% certainty that all infectious agents will be removed, since some of them may exist in the form of spores, and these are very resistant to external influences.
Sterilization is sterilization using physical agents, such as steam, pressure, UV radiation, ultrasound, carried out in specially adapted equipment. Performed properly, it ensures microbiological purity of accessories used for manicure and pedicure.
We bet on autoclave
Beauty salons are visited by people with different health conditions. For this reason, the principle of common sense limited trust is applied during professional treatments – because it is not difficult to break the continuity of tissues during a manicure or pedicure, and a scratch or cuticle can happen at any time.
We care about your health, so we rely on the sterilization of manicure and pedicure tools using vacuum-pressure autoclaves – no microbiological agent has a chance to survive in this device.
You can also sterilize in ball sterilizers, but in these devices you will not be able to completely eliminate microbial risk – because the agents that eliminate potentially infectious material will not always reach all the nooks and crannies.
At our pedicure bar in Wroclaw and Warsaw, we use vacuum-pressure autoclaves because they are much more effective than ball sterilizers. High temperature, moisture from steam plus increased pressure, used together, make particles that could pose a microbiological threat, which could not be removed during washing, absolutely destroyed – also in hard-to-reach places. By creating a vacuum, air, the medium in which microbes that are dangerous to health can be found, is eliminated from the autoclave – important for ensuring the safety of the drying stage of sterilized items.
