Facials and makeup application
Facials can be invasive procedures that involve a risk of exposure to blood or body fluids, especially when the procedure involves extractions. Infection prevention and control precautions must be followed to protect both personal service workers (PSWs) and clients.
* The following is in addition to general operational requirements for personal services settings.
Infection prevention and control requirements
Inspect your client’s skin. Do not provide service on inflamed, infected skin, or skin with a rash or any open wounds.
Hand hygiene and glove use
Hand hygiene must be performed by PSWs:
- before starting a treatment/procedure
- after wearing single use gloves
- in between breaks in service
Gloves or finger cots are not required for routine procedures in which contact is limited to a client’s intact skin.
PSWs are required to use gloves or single use finger cots for:
- contact with blood, body fluids, secretions and excretions from mucous membranes or non-intact skin
- handling items visibly soiled with blood, body fluids, secretions and excretions
- when the PSW has non-intact skin on his/her hand(s)
Gloves or finger cots should be changed between procedures with the same client, and must be changed between clients, and between breaks in treatment or service of the same client.
Gloves should be removed immediately after completion of the procedure, at the point of use and before touching clean environmental surfaces.
Single-use disposable gloves must not be reused or washed.
Blood and body fluid exposures
Instruments that accidentally break the skin during a procedure must be cleaned and disinfected with a high-level disinfectant prior to re-use.
Records of the exposure must be completed. Keep client records and accidental blood and body fluid exposure records on site for one year and off site for 5 years.
Hepatitis B vaccination is strongly recommended for PSWs.
Equipment
Dispense creams, lotions, makeup for each client:
- With a single-use disposable applicator (for example, spatula).
- If using reusable spatulas, these must be constructed of non-porous material (for example, metal) that can be cleaned and disinfected between clients. Ensure that spatulas do not contaminate the original container, and they must be cleaned and disinfected using a low-to intermediate-level disinfectant in between uses.
- Into a clean single use container and discard the container after use.
Empty cream and lotion containers should be discarded or cleaned and disinfected using a low-level disinfectant before being refilled.
Creams, lotion, or cotton balls must be dispensed in a manner that does not contaminate the remaining portion.
Equipment that cannot be properly cleaned and disinfected between clients is single-use (for example, facial sponges, cotton balls, tissues, applicators, facial steamer machine inserts), and they must be discarded immediately after use.
Use pre-packaged, single-use, sterile needles or lancets for extractions. Discard used needles or lancets into an approved sharps container after each use.
All reusable equipment that contacts only intact skin must be thoroughly cleaned and then disinfected using a low- to intermediate-level disinfectant after each use.
All reusable equipment that comes in contact with non-intact skin, blood or body fluids must be cleaned and disinfected using an intermediate- to high-level disinfectant (for example, high-frequency glass or metal probes, comedone extractors).
The water in the facial steam vapour machine must be emptied and cleaned on a regular basis.
Makeup brushes used on areas other than the eyes must be washed with soap and water, rinsed, and then disinfected with a low-level disinfectant after each client.
Use single-use applicators to apply eye makeup. Do not double dip!
Eyeliner and lip liner crayons must be re-sharpened after each client. Clean the sharpener daily.
This item was last modified on November 18, 2015