Alabama Administrative Code › Title 250 - ALABAMA BOARD OF COSMETOLOGY AND BARBERING › Chapter 250-X-3 - SALON REQUIREMENTS › Section 250-X-3-.02 - Products Sanitation And Care

Current through Register Vol. 42, No. 9, June 28, 2024
(1) No licensee shall conduct services at any
			 location which does not meet proper health, safety and sanitation requirements.
			 Compliance with rules of this chapter does not infer compliance with other
			 requirements of federal, state, and local laws, codes, ordinances, and
			 regulations.
(2) Possession or
			 storage of any equipment, supplies or product associated with any act of
			 barbering or cosmetology will be prima facie evidence of use.
(3) No licensee shall use any equipment,
			 supplies or product banned for use by the United States Food and Drug
			 Administration or other federal, state, or local governmental agency for
			 barbering or cosmetology purposes.
(4) No licensee shall use styptic
			 pencils.
(5) No licensee shall use
			 methyl methacrylate or any other product considered poisonous or
			 unsafe.
(6) No licensee shall use
			 any drill or other equipment, supply or product for any purpose other than that
			 for which it was intended. Only drills marked by the manufacturer "For Human
			 Nails" are acceptable.
(7) No
			 Licensee shall use any craft or hobby tools or modified craft or hobby tools in
			 providing services.
(8) No licensee
			 shall perform any service outside the scope of the Board's regulatory
			 authority. The Board's scope of licensure is confined to non-invasive services
			 performed on the epidermis, specifically the stratum corneum and must not
			 alter, cut or damage living cells.
(9) No licensee shall use callous razors in
			 any practice of cosmetology or manicure.
(10) No licensee shall perform services on
			 the skin or scalp of any person which is broken, inflamed, cut, abraded, eroded
			 or infected.
(11) No licensee may
			 perform eyebrow tinting with a product which contains aniline
			 derivative.
(12) No licensee shall
			 practice photo rejuvenation, permanent makeup, electrolysis, tattoo, or any
			 other act outside the regulatory authority of the Board.
(13) No person with an infectious or
			 communicable disease may work in a salon licensed by the Board.
(14) The practice of natural hairstyling is
			 limited to cleansing, extending, locking, braiding or arranging without
			 cutting, relaxing, removing, or applying permanent waving or chemical
			 treatments to the natural hair.
(15) The scope of waxing for manicurist/waxer
			 is limited to treatment above the neck.
(16) Roll on wax applicators shall be classed
			 as single use items.
(17) All
			 sanitized instruments and sanitary disposable articles must be stored in clean,
			 closed containers free of other supplies.
(18) Cosmetics or preparations used on
			 clients must be kept in closed containers at all times when not in
			 use.
(19) Shop must use containers
			 for professional products which are designed to prevent contamination of the
			 unused portion. All creams and bulk substances must be removed from containers
			 with spatulas or clean tools. Bulk supplies which may be contaminated by
			 unsanitized tools or spatulas during preparation or application of single
			 service portions must be discarded.
(20) Shop must use wet sanitizers with
			 hospital grade or EPA approved disinfectant. A wet sanitizer is any receptacle
			 with a proper cover large enough to completely immerse items to be sanitized
			 which contains an approved disinfectant. A hospital grade or EPA approved
			 disinfectant shall be defined as:
(a) For all
			 combs, brushes, tools, metal implements, instruments with a cutting edge and
			 implements which have not come into contact with blood or body fluids: a
			 disinfectant which indicates on its label that it has been registered with the
			 Environmental Protection Agency as a hospital grade bactericide, vermicide and
			 fungicide.
(b) For all combs,
			 brushes, tools, metal implements, implements with a cutting edge and implements
			 which have come into contact with blood or body fluids: a disinfectant which
			 indicates on its label that it has been registered with the EPA as a hospital
			 grade tuberculocidal.