Cleaning Your Utensils

Cleaning your utensils between clients (as well as if you’re only using them on yourself) is extremely important and should never be shortcutted or skipped. You don’t want to cross contamin any of your clients with bacteria or infections by not cleaning your utensils between each of your clients. However, sanitizing your utensils is very quick and easy.

There are two main methods that I accomplish this so I’m going to go over both of them with you.

1. Barbicide. This is what I do when I’m waxing my clients at my salon. You’ll need a couple of items; a glass jar, barbicide and water. I use this barbicide jar because it’s so easy to clean your utensils. You just pull the lid up and then put your utensils in the bottom level, then lower into the jar. Then to remove, pull the lid back up and you can easily grab your utensils. I also recommend having at least 2 pairs of tweezers and scissors in your salon. This is just in case you wax faster than 10 minutes and need to use your utensils before they’re done getting sanitized. It helps to get your utensils in different colors so you know which ones you used during your last appointment.

a. Fill your glass jar with 32 ounces of water.
b. Add 2 ounces of barbicide to your waxer and mix well. This can be done by pulling the lid up and down in the jar.
c. Drop your tweezers, eyebrow scissors and other utensils into the holder.
d. Keep the utensils in there for at least 10 minutes before removing.
e. Remove and let air dry.
f. All done!


2. Rubbing Alcohol. I use this when I’m waxing myself or any family at home (so I’m not in my salon).
a. Wipe the entire surface area of the tweezers with rubbing alcohol using a cotton ball or paper towel.
b. Be careful and ensure you coat both the tips and the grip of the utensils fully.
c. Personally, I like to lay down a paper towel and spray the rubbing alcohol on the tweezers over the paper towel and then wipe them down with another paper towel.
d. Then I’ll place them on top of the paper towel and flip them in 5 minutes.
e. Once I do that, I’ll wipe them down one more time and then put them away.

Make sure you store your tweezers and utensils in a clean and dry sealed container so moisture and dust can’t enter.

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