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04.13.2020
Barbicide’s Checklist to Reopening Your Salon
*We do not have a partnership with Barbicide, we are providing cleaning solutions that have been approved to disinfect salons.
Barbicide has been a partner in the beauty industry since 1947, they are committed to educating beauty industry professionals to ensure they are providing a safe service. Barbicide recently received documentation from the EPA that BARBICIDE® is approved for efficacy against Human Coronavirus, including COVID-19.
A few things that the Barbicide Team wants you to know:
- Practice proper infection control. Cleaning & disinfection, as directed by the boards of every state. These rules require proper disinfection of every non-porous implement prior to use. In addition, consideration of the disinfection of common use surfaces such as back bars, reception areas, computers, and phones should be considered.
- Remember contact time. The most important step of the disinfection process is to allow the chemical time to work! Read all disinfectant labels to know the correct time frame. For BARBICIDE® concentrate, that contact time is 10 minutes and for BARBICIDE® Wipes the contact time is 2 minutes.
- Hand hygiene. Wash hands with soap and water for 30 seconds prior to every client, after eating, smoking or using the restroom. Where allowed by state law/rules, hand sanitizer is acceptable, except after eating, smoking or using the restroom.
- Keep your hands to yourself! Handshaking needs to be replaced with other methods of introduction. While handshaking is seen as a polite gesture, during cold and flu season it is a superhighway for viruses to move quickly in groups.
- Finally, keep your immune system healthy so it is prepared if you are exposed to anything! Get plenty of sleep, water, good nutrition and most of all, stop smoking!