fozzyo
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What about using a metal spatula and wiping it with surgical spirit or cleaner after each dip.
Time is the big cost here with doing that.
Mat
What about using a metal spatula and wiping it with surgical spirit or cleaner after each dip.
This drives me a bit mental, your spatula does not touch the client, the wax touches the client and the other side of the wax touches the spatula.
So if your spatula goes back into the pot, the only thing it has touched is the wax.
There for, the important thing here is to keep your wax covered when not in use, keep your work area clean, keep yourself clean and all of your implements sanitised and stored in a sanitised container.
Kim trained me, so like her I work with a metal spatula for warm wax and wooden for hot wax.
Like Kim I don't double dip my wooden spatula's but my personal thought on this is that I do this to make my client feel more comfortable not because I'm worried about double dipping.
I can't remember who told us how, when she started in the beauty industry they used to sieve the used wax strips at the end of the day.
Now that is truly gross:Scared:
Kim trained me, so like her I work with a metal spatula for warm wax and wooden for hot wax.
Like Kim I don't double dip my wooden spatula's but my personal thought on this is that I do this to make my client feel more comfortable not because I'm worried about double dipping.
First off the Dip & Drizzle idea / training, in my view, is just a pointless waste of time! And that is the most expensive aspect of your treatment cost ... time. By doing this you are wasting soo much time waiting for the wax drip onto another spatula.
I have a very simple setup that works incredibly well for speed waxing techniques. First of all a supply of spatulas in a jar on my trolley, then under the side of my table a small plastic bin with appropriate liner.
I dip my spatula in the wax, remove the excess and then apply a big thin coat of wax to the area waxing. And then I just drop that spatula into the bin, turn to my trolley, pick up my next spatula and repeat.
I have explained this to therapists and they will come back and say "Oh my god but that is so expensive! Do you not realise how many spatulas you are using and how much that costs?" Actually yes I do ... peanuts. My most popular waxing is a back and shoulders. Lets just say I had no idea what I was doing and somehow managed to use 50 spatulas for this one treatment that would cost me a whole 57p (inc VAT) ... on a £25 treatment I'm not complaining!
I use the no-double dip as a marketing tool! Works wonders.
Mat
Here in beautiful Western Australia I am now adding the service of waxing to my clents. 'Double dipping', metal spatulas, wood or plastic....all very interesting. Think I'll run with the wooden spatulas. Not only is it safer and better for my client, but as Fozzyo explained - wonderful marketing.
As for which product to use: does anyone know of a Perron supplier in Australia? How does Perron compare to Caron?
And how can I win a trip Kim Lawless' for some training? :biggrin:
Cheers,
Bobbie
You really should NOT be waxing someone with a coldsore in the area anyway. These are highly contagious!
I must say after reading that habia page it actually basically says do not double dip (in a long winded way lol) yeah spatulas are cheap as chips but it's up to the individual what they prefer. The more you practice single dipping the less spatulas will be used.
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What about using a metal spatula and wiping it with surgical spirit or cleaner after each dip.I wonder if that would be acceptable.
I wonder where the wood comes for the spatulas.They may be cheap but not so good for the enviroment when everyone is using hundreds a day.
Im glad ive got a roller.One clean head each client and no!, evidently there is no flowing back into the cartridge thats what clean and easy say anyway.
I am absolutely horrified by all the people here double-dipping.
Allow me to share some knowledge with you: genital herpes is called HSV 2. It is contracted via the virus entering an opening in the body or mucous membrane ie. mouth, nose, eyes, genitals, a cut or even the tiniest of tears in the skin. 80% OF PEOPLE WHO CONTRACT HSV 2 CONTRACTED IT WHILST THEIR PARTNER DID NOT HAVE AN OUTBREAK.
What does this mean for us? Herpes lives in the nerve roots of the body in the skin. At all times, the body is in a stage called "viral shedding" which is when skin cells carrying the virus are sloughed off, just like skin normally comes off.
Where does this occur? FROM THE LOWER STOMACH ALL THE WAY TO THE MID THIGH.
You all need a serious reality check. Genital herpes is one of the most contagious diseases around and THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE IT DO NOT KNOW.
If your wax applicator comes in contact with your client's skin, the skin cells are removed and it can be transfered to the wax pot and whatever else it touches. Then you go to use it on your next client and removing a hair creates a tiny opening in the folicle AKA an entrance point. I have done a great amount of research on this as it was a topic I studied in school.
The sheer amount of ignorance in this thread is astounding. I hope you all take what I am saying seriously. My wooden wax applicators cost me less than one cent each.
Get real people.
And by the way, I had to try extremely hard not to call you double-dippers a bunch of youknowwhats. Absolutely appalling. Disgusting. You should be ashamed of yourselves.
I am glad you take offense to it. You think no one has ever caught herpes from a beauty service? That is quite the statement to make. So you never even touch their skin when you wax? I must have missed that technique in school.
Let me reitterate to you that just by touching someone in that area who has herpes will transfer the virus to your gloved hand (if you wear gloves) and then spread anywhere you touch.
I literally cannot begin to impress upon you how contagious herpes is. I had a close friend who got it from someone who didn't even know they had it. There is no cure and living with the knowledge of having HSV 2 is very hard for most people. Well, I mean out of the 10% of the population who has it. Oh wait, and only 20% of THOSE know they have it.
I won't argue science with anyone. Feel free to research it yourself. And let me know about that hand-less waxing technique too!
Thanks!
So you are saying we can get herpes just by touching people not even waxing.Well ive been a therapist for 30 years now in constant training and working everyday since and ive never heard the like.Blimey what a risk we take i should be getting danger money.
Im very confused! It's sounds like we all must have herpes?!!
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