How do I sterilise or sanitise my tools?

[xxkelliexx]

hi girls im doing a level 1 beauty course at college and i need to find out how to sterilise or sanitise the following:

buffer
cuticle knife
cuticle nippers
scissors
trolly

any help would be very much appreciated!

thanks in advance!:green:

 

[kylieb]

ok basically anything that is metal should be cleaned in the auto clave, after wiping with surg.
Anything that can melt or isnt strong enough for the autoclave needs to be placed in a u.v cabinet.(and turned over)
buffer- sprayed with sanitiser
cuticle knife should be put in auto clave
cuticle nippers -auto clave
scissors - auto clave
trolly- wiped with surgical spirit

Hope that helps! I also did level 1
xxx

 

[wardo]

hello
Have you not been given any handouts or text books you can work from? Hate to be a nag but I would not be to happy with my students if they didnt try to find the answers themselves and therefor understand what they are been asked. I understand if you have tried to look but don't understand. If you look in the front of most beauty text books this is one of the first things covered, The level 1 books contain quite alot on this subject. Good luck!

 

[xxkelliexx]

ok basically anything that is metal should be cleaned in the auto clave, after wiping with surg.
Anything that can melt or isnt strong enough for the autoclave needs to be placed in a u.v cabinet.(and turned over)
buffer- sprayed with sanitiser
cuticle knife should be put in auto clave
cuticle nippers -auto clave
scissors - auto clave
trolly- wiped with surgical spirit

Hope that helps! I also did level 1
xxx

thank you ever so much for your help i had found trhe answers to some of the objects just wanted clarification!

thank you once again.

 

[xxkelliexx]

hello
Have you not been given any handouts or text books you can work from? Hate to be a nag but I would not be to happy with my students if they didnt try to find the answers themselves and therefor understand what they are been asked. I understand if you have tried to look but don't understand. If you look in the front of most beauty text books this is one of the first things covered, The level 1 books contain quite alot on this subject. Good luck!

at first i didnt know how to take your reply but i did browse the net and i did have some of the answers i just wanted to check i was on the right path! maybe i should have posted my answers and asked you guys to run over them?! once again sorry if i affended you in asking but i did not recieve any booklets or handouts should i have recieved some?

kellie xx

 

[kylieb]

thank you ever so much for your help i had found trhe answers to some of the objects just wanted clarification!

thank you once again.

No problem hun! I too learn a lot more from people telling me rather than looking in a text book. I guess we all learn differently!
As long as you know the answer in the end , its all good xxx

 

[ValencianNails]

We don't have to sterilise any of our equipment as we're not performing invasive treatments.

Sanitisation is perfectly adequate for our tools/equipment.

Mundo sell a fab range of products for salon sanitisation and have a FAQ page on their site too.

 

[loubylou]

at first i didnt know how to take your reply but i did browse the net and i did have some of the answers i just wanted to check i was on the right path! maybe i should have posted my answers and asked you guys to run over them?! once again sorry if i affended you in asking but i did not recieve any booklets or handouts should i have recieved some?

kellie xx

Wardos reply was meant with good intentions as we do not favour people helping others by giving answers to home work on here,
yes if you had given the answers that you had come up with we would have happily told you if you were right or wrong and if you were wrong on any we would have pointed you in the right direction,
hope that helps you to understand the reply

 

[wardo]

aww sorry I didn't mean you to think that! I was just saying that your set work to find yourself so you can learn abit more. Everyone learns in different ways and doing your research can help with this. Well done for looking for the answers and then checking they were correct. I just thought from your first post you hadn't checked the answers first. Good luck with the rest of your home work

 

[kylieb]

We don't have to sterilise any of our equipment as we're not performing invasive treatments.

Sanitisation is perfectly adequate for our tools/equipment.

Mundo sell a fab range of products for salon sanitisation and have a FAQ page on their site too.

Is this because laws are different where you live?
It is very important to sterilise your tools such as cuticle knifes etc. If you were to come into contact with bodily fluids, say with a client that had HIV or Aids then a quick wipe over with the surg or plonking it in some barbicide is not enough and you could contaminate other things too and even worse ...PASS IT ON TO ANOTHER CLIENT!!

This i have to say is why i would never get my nails done at the chinese shops, as a lot of their hygiene is very poor!
xxx

 

[ValencianNails]

Is this because laws are different where you live?
It is very important to sterilise your tools such as cuticle knifes etc. If you were to come into contact with bodily fluids, say with a client that had HIV or Aids then a quick wipe over with the surg or plonking it in some barbicide is not enough and you could contaminate other things too and even worse ...PASS IT ON TO ANOTHER CLIENT!!

This i have to say is why i would never get my nails done at the chinese shops, as a lot of their hygiene is very poor!
xxx

I don't live in a 3rd world country!!! Spain is quite up to date with sanitisation.

Surely you would ask on your client consultation forms whether your client has any transferable diseases, would you not?!?

Personally, I wouldn't be racist towards any nationality... any country or ethnic origin is able to produce NSS techs/salons!

If you abrade your client with an abrasive (which is rare) you should dispose of the abrasive and thoroughly sanitise any tools you have used.

This post might help your understanding some more... http://www.salongeek.com/nail-geek/30826-sterilization.html#post306961

 

[adelekeegan1]

I don't live in a 3rd world country!!! Spain is quite up to date with sanitisation.

Surely you would ask on your client consultation forms whether your client has any transferable diseases, would you not?!?

Personally, I wouldn't be racist towards any nationality... any country or ethnic origin is able to produce NSS techs/salons!

If you abrade your client with an abrasive (which is rare) you should dispose of the abrasive and thoroughly sanitise any tools you have used.

This post might help your understanding some more... http://www.salongeek.com/nail-geek/30826-sterilization.html#post306961

This is what I was taught on my Creative foundation course too.

 

[sian1979]

This is what I was taught on my Creative foundation course too.

Yup me too!!...i was taught that tools only needed to be sanitised and disinfected.....to sterilise tools is only necessary when being used as described as above, i.e. if peforming surgery....which isnt very likely really, lol! We do not work in sterile enviroments so as soon as something that has been sterilized is removed from the auto clave or uv cabinet then it is unsterile again.

 

[kylieb]

I don't live in a 3rd world country!!! Spain is quite up to date with sanitisation.

Surely you would ask on your client consultation forms whether your client has any transferable diseases, would you not?!?

Personally, I wouldn't be racist towards any nationality... any country or ethnic origin is able to produce NSS techs/salons!

If you abrade your client with an abrasive (which is rare) you should dispose of the abrasive and thoroughly sanitise any tools you have used.

This post might help your understanding some more... http://www.salongeek.com/nail-geek/30826-sterilization.html#post306961

I have been in college now for nearly three years and we always have to put our tools into the auto clave after our treatments. This is what nvq states we HAVE to do. It is also in our text books and comes up the same in our tests.
They go on to explain why we do this and tell us about clients that do not know they have a disease. I believe we should treat our clients as if they had everything and be very careful.
I am certainly NOT racist and i am just stating that most chinese salons are not up to date with all of this as most of them are not qualified, therefor have never been to college to learn this.

I wasnt being funny in anyway when i asked you if it was different in your country. I just thought that maybe you are taught differently over in Spain.
xxx

 

[Vetty]

I have been in college now for nearly three years and we always have to put our tools into the auto clave after our treatments. This is what nvq states we HAVE to do. It is also in our text books and comes up the same in our tests.
They go on to explain why we do this and tell us about clients that do not know they have a disease. I believe we should treat our clients as if they had everything and be very careful.

The point is that performing a nail or beauty service will not put us in contact with blood or other bodily fluids, and you cannot catch HIV/AIDS etc from the skin. If we were performing invasive surgery then yes we would need an autoclave, but to clean pathogens from our metal tools disinfection is perfectly adequate.

How do you think us mobile tech's manage????

 

[kylieb]

Ok ok this is all getting a bit out of hand.
I was replying to Kellie with the correct answers to her homework. Not as a nail tech but as a beautician.
I dont know what you nail geeks do for sterilisation but us beauticians are taught to do it in this way for manicure. Some of them may or may not do it but all i am saying to kellie is, for her homework ...these are the correct answers as she has already found out.
xxx

 

[1999judy]

http://www.salongeek.com/health-safety-unaturale/37133-cleaning-disinfecting-pedicure-equipment.html
http://www.salongeek.com/misc-tutorials/48228-salon-hygiene.html

 

[Purelynailz]

Ok ok this is all getting a bit out of hand.
I was replying to Kellie with the correct answers to her homework. Not as a nail tech but as a beautician.
I dont know what you nail geeks do for sterilisation but us beauticians are taught to do it in this way for manicure. Some of them may or may not do it but all i am saying to kellie is, for her homework ...these are the correct answers as she has already found out.
xxx

Hey, i recently started doing my NVQS for nails at a SACentre, I went and done a remedials course a few weeks ago as i was missing some things in order for me to complete my NVQs...anyway, while i was their the woman who was teaching me took my tools and put them in her autoclave and i asked why as i have always just disinfected them as that was what i was taught on all my previous courses,
I asked why and basically it is part of the NVQ standards that your tools be sterilized and if you dont then you wont pass your assessments and when asked in a exam ,again you have to say you would sterilize.

So, i understand completly where everyone else is coming from as i do exactly that, disinfect, BUT when it comes to doing an NVQ then you need to sterilize, i dont understand why its different but thats how it is.
Kylieb you were right in what you said as the original poster is doing her NVQ.

Hazel x

 

[wardo]

Have to say I agree with both points.
While in college you must follow your tutors advice as that is what is expected of you to pass your course, do I do it at home...... no not all the time, as people have all ready said it is not needed all of the time. Use your common sence and look after your tools and your clients. There is a huge difference between what you need to do to pass a course and what you will do in industry, and that goes for all aspects of beauty. And I do not mean that in a bad way its just industry and college are different in some aspects.

 

[adelekeegan1]

This is all very interesting. I was trained by Creative who have won many awards for their education.

I have followed their instruction from day one and, as I understand it, this is the way all the big name nail companies educate their pupils.

Perhaps other educational establishments are not so up to date with nail service requirements.