Nail Salon Sanitation

This is a story that will make you think twice about who does your nails.

My Beauty Salon Inspector told me of a nail salon who, instead of having Barbicide (that funny blue-green liquid required to sanitize implements), she inspected a nail salon that thought they could pass off MIRACLE GROW as sterilizer!!!  (Same color - but does NOT kill fungus, hepatitis, and all the nasties you can get from FEET!)  

This is SO SCARY.  There are so many frightening things crawling around in the world, MRSA being one of the scariest ... well, along with Hep-C, or AIDS, too many to count really.  

If you are having nail services, P-L-E-A-S-E triple-check that the person is legitimately licensed, AND that they properly STERILIZE all of their implements BEFORE touching YOU!  

Implements need to soak in that blue liquid (NOT miracle grow!) for at least 10-minutes to kill all the nasties.

On another point of contention, can someone please tell me how the 'nail girls' are getting their license when they can't even speak English???  I'm really beginning to doubt the system.  What are the schools teaching, and how are these people getting licensed in the first place?  

That leads me to another point, those chair massage guys in the mall ... they also don't speak a word of English, and I've never seen a massage therapy license hanging anywhere near their space.

What's going on?  How are these people allowed to do what I am not?  I have to take HOURS of continuing education and pay to renew my licenses in order to practice both cosmetology and massage.  And knowing how hard Dr. Eric's class in anatomy is, there is NO WAY someone without a solid grasp of our language could pass his tests.  

BUYER BEWARE.