Making sure your spa is safe
Posted: Apr 9th 2008 4:31PM by Maggie Vink
Filed under: General Health, Healthy Places, Stress Reduction
Oh... a day at the spa. Sounds like a relaxing bit of heaven, doesn't it? How does a nail infection sound? Or a lethal overdose of hair-removal treatment? Spas offer a variety of services nowadays -- not just the run-of-the-mill facial and massage. So you should check your spa out as thoroughly as you would check out a new physician.
Here are some tips:
- Don't make your first appointment over the phone. Visit the spa, ask for a tour, and see if it appears professional, organized, and sanitary.
- Ask questions! Ask if the staff is licensed and what their training was. You can also ask about the years of experience. If you're getting treatments such as Botox (and if you are, really, think twice) make sure whoever is administering it is a licensed physician or a nurse under a doctor's supervision.
- Ask friends if they've been to the spa before and see if the spa has an online rating.
- The spa should have a questionnaire or verbally ask you questions about existing health conditions, allergies, and so forth. If you don't feel an appropriate question has been asked, speak up! You have to advocate for you own health.
Tags: botox, facial, facials, hair removal, HairRemoval, massage, massages, nail care, nail infection, nail polish, NailCare, NailInfection, NailPolish, nails, spa
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
6-30-2008 @ 12:53PM
Pedi_Cure said...
For all pedicure lovers you should really look and see if the nail techs are actually taking the time to clean and disinfect the spa equipment with an EPA approved disinfectant (and not window washing fuid, yikes!)- but why not just get to the heart of the matter and go to salons that have AmeriSpa's Bio-Smart System, the system that automates the cleaning and disinfecting of the spa chair with a press of a button, now that's hot!
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