Tip: Cleaning Your Tools For Safety & Optimal Performance
Last Updated (Wednesday, 14 July 2010 21:38)
“Clean your tools everyday, and most will last a lifetime,” explains Lya Navarra, sales promotion manager of the Sam Villa® brand. Clean tools are crucial for optimal performance, but even more importantly, it can help prevent infection when accidents occur. Tools such as razors and scissors can accidentally penetrate skin and cause infection. Cleaning tools reduces the risk for both clients and stylists.
Brushes: Remove Hair, Clean and Sanitize Everyday
Use a brush cleaner designed with hard, wide-spaced, angled teeth on one end and longer bristles or wire on the other end. Try the Sam Villa Brush Cleaner available on www.samvilla.com .
1. Use the wide toothed end of the cleaning brush to rake through each row of bristles and pull up and out to remove tangled knots and hair at the base of the brush.
2. Use the denser longer bristled end of the cleaning brush and Redken Hair Cleansing Cream available on www.redken.com , to help cleanse away styling aid residue.
3. Store in dry sanitizer.
Combs: Clean and Sanitize Everyday
Note: Combs do not need to be left in liquid sanitizer overnight, it can actually breakdown the materials some combs are made from.
1. Use the denser longer bristled end of the cleaning brush (or even a toothbrush) and Redken Hair Cleaning Cream to wash away styling aid residue.
2. Soak in liquid sanitizer for no longer than 10 minutes.
Shears: Clean and Oil Everyday
1. Use rubbing alcohol and a cotton ball to remove styling aid residue – minding the edges of the blade to avoid injury.
2. Hold shears with tips pointing down with the blades open about at a 45º, put a couple drops of shear or clipper oil at the pivot point, open and close shears and let sit over night.
3. In the morning, hold the shears in a downward position and open and close open and close the shears. The oil from the night before will flush out the hair that gets built up in the pivot point of the blades.
4. Wipe blade clean
Thermal Tools: Clean After Every Use
Iron plates are made of many different substances and it’s imperative to keep them all clean for smooth, shiny hair. Hardened styling or cutting aid residue on plates snags and pulls hair compromising it and roughening up the cuticle.
Sam Villa’s Signature Series TEXTUR texturizing iron has a ceramic plate that is coated with titanium. Titanium tolerates high temperatures and helps stop corrosion, reduces friction and prevents sticking – it’s desired for its durability and ease of cleaning. Sam Villa Signature Series SLEEKR flat iron has a ceramic plate that is tourmaline coated to help smooth the cuticle and promote extra shine and smoothness.
1. Start with iron at room temperature.
2. Use a towel moistened with water to wipe plates clean. A Q-tip may be used to get into smaller crevices. For stubborn buildup, use rubbing alcohol and then wipe clean with a damp towel.
Source: SamVilla.com
For more information on Sam Villa and the products mentioned above, visit www.samvilla.com
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