Facts & Tips

using hand sanitizer Like anything new, it takes practise. For many who have worked in the makeup and beauty industry for many years, you may remember that when you were training, there was something about hygiene, but when you go out and start work, it’s easy to forget the teaching and harder to implement when you see your contemporaries and peers not respecting or practising SAFE BEAUTY?

Why? Because it takes time and effort and yes, it costs a bit more to ensure you have all the right hygiene essentials, tools and accessores from disposables to hand sanitizer.

But think about it like this? If you were having blood taken at a hospital and the doctor simply wiped the needle and put a bit of spray cleaner onto the syringe and the then started the procedure – what would you do? What would your instincts tell you? What would you be thinking?

You would say "stop". You would know that there was a high risk of danger and you know it would be wrong.
Beauty should not be like a game of Russian roulette in that you don’t know what you might or might not catch from your treatment, procedure or makeover. In other words you should treat your clients as you would wish to be treated yourself. And, a client has the right to be treated with their health and hygiene the number one priority.

To download our SAFE BEAUTY GUIDE for Makeup Artists & Beauty professionals, click here.

Risks at the beauty counter

When buying cosmetics at the beauty counter, ensure that you are not caught out by the hidden dangers lurking behind the plethora of products and promises. The SBA's mission is to change the way the makeup and beauty industry works and that means the cosmetic houses and retail outlets must also change the way they work to ensure that the health and hygiene of their customers is their number one priority. A two year study on public makeup testers truly reveals why our "Hidden Truth. Safe Beauty" campaign is spot on. Researchers found that all of the makeup they tested contained traces of E.coli as well as the herpes simplex virus (cold sores when once caught are with you for life), as well as staph, strep and other bacteria.
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"Whenever you see E.coli, you should just think 'E.coli equals faeces," said Dr Elizabeth Brooks who conducted the survey. "That means someone went to the bathroom, didn't wash their hands and then stuck thir fingers in that moisturiser" Brooks also said that when they tested the makeup on Saturdays, the busiest day at the beauty counter, the percentage of contanimated makeup was 100% "If a woman has a cut on her lip and borrows lipstick from someone who has a coldsore, she'll get a cold sore. You can pass herpes, conjunctivitis and all sorts of things through sharing makeup" adds Dr Zein Obagi, a leading dermatologist in America.

To download our SAFE BEAUTY GUIDE for consumers, click here.