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The following Regulations and Recommendations for the conduct
of Hairdressers' Saloons have been drawn up by the Incorporated
Guild of Hairdressers, Wigmakers and Perfumers,
in conjunction with the Medical Officer of Health for the
City of London.
1. All shelves, fittings and tables on which instruments are placed to be
of glass, marble, slate or other similar material.
2. Clean towels, &c., to be used for each customer, and a fresh piece of
paper or clean linen to be placed on the back of chair or head-rest.
3. No general powder puffs to be used, and powder pulverisers or cotton
wool substituted. No sponges to be used.
*4. All hairclippers, razors, scissors, combs, or other tools, after use to be
placed in a disinfecting solution.
5. Razors to be wiped on paper.
6. Perfectly clean hairbrushes only must be used.
*7. Shaving brushes after use to be placed in a disinfecting solution.
8. Liquid or powrdered soap or shaving cream only to be used.
9. Cut hair falling on the floor to be immediately swept up and removed,
and floors to be cleansed daily.
10. No general alum crystals or blocks to be used as a styptic, but a liquid
or powder applied on towel or cotton wool or by spray.
11. The most scrupulous cleanliness to be observed in all that pertains to
the business.
In addition to the foregoing Regulations which have to be observed, the Guild
makes the following Recommendations.
(a) Regular customers and subscribers should be strongly recommended
to provide their own toilet articles, razors, brushes, &c., which would be
exclusively reserved for the owner's use.
(b) All cut hair and paper to be burned.
(c) No customer apparently suffering from any skin or hair affection to
be attended to save at his own house or offices, or in a private room.
* The following disinfectants to be used, viz.:—
Cyllin solution, in the proportion of one teaspoonful of Cyllin in one quart of
water, or
Izal solution, in the proportion of one teaspoonful of Izal in one pint of water.