820 IAC 3-1-16.1 Esthetics; cleanliness

Sec. 16.1. (a) Before use on a customer, nondisposable instruments must be sterilized using an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) registered tuberculocidal, bactericide, viricide, and fungicide disinfectant, used according to the manufacturer's instructions. (b) Sterilization required under subsection (a) is as follows: (1) Instruments must be: (A) washed using a clean scrub brush in a low residue detergent and rinsed before sterilization to remove visible debris; and (B) disinfected using an EPA registered bactericide, viricide, and fungicide disinfectant, used according to the manufacturer's instructions. (2) Forceps, tweezers, and comedone extractors must be sterilized using a steam autoclave or dry heat sterilizer according to the manufacturer's instructions. (3) Instruments, other than those instruments under subdivision (2), must be sterilized or disinfected by using an EPA registered tuberculocidal, bactericide, viricide, and fungicide disinfectant. (c) Before use on a customer, facial bowls, towel warmers, and facial sinks must be cleaned with an EPA registered, bactericide, viricide, and fungicide disinfectant and rinsed with warm water. (d) An esthetician, a cosmetologist, an esthetics student, or a cosmetology student in a beauty culture school shall do the following: (1) Wash their hands in fresh water with germicidal soap (antimicrobiotic) or waterless hand sanitizer that contains at least seventy percent (70%) alcohol immediately before serving each customer. (2) When extracting blackheads, milia, or comedones, or conducting other procedures where exposing bodily fluids is likely, wear protective gloves, which must be disposed of after providing the service to a customer. (3) When waxing, use a new applicator for each application of wax and wear protective gloves, which must be disposed of after providing the service to a customer. (e) The chair and table where a customer is receiving esthetician services must have clean coverings. (f) The customer's body should remain clothed or draped except for the areas receiving the service. (g) After serving a customer, disposable items, including: (1) cotton swabs; (2) tissues; (3) tongue depressors; (4) spatulas; (5) sponges; (6) plastic; and (7) gauze; used by an esthetician, a cosmetologist, an esthetics student, or a cosmetology student in a beauty culture school must be disposed of. (h) An esthetician, a cosmetologist, an esthetics student, or a cosmetology student in a beauty culture school shall dispense all products in a sanitary manner using: (1) spatulas; (2) pumps; or (3) other sanitary devices. (i) Lancets used by an esthetician, a cosmetologist, an esthetics student, or a cosmetology student in a beauty culture school must be disposed of in a lancet safety device (waste container) after serving a customer. (j) When waxing, estheticians, cosmetologists, esthetics students, and cosmetology students in a beauty culture school shall use a new applicator for each application of wax.