Clean and Hygienic

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 90, 10 January 1935, Page 11

Clean and Hygienic

Sir, —I have read with much interest the controversy published through the columns of your paper, with reference to hairdressers and saloons. No doubt it is causing much amusement to the public, but why pick on the hairdressing saloons when there are a hundred and one professions and trades which are open to comment? Hairdressing saloons, generally speaking, are kept clean and hygienic, as the hairdresser well knows that his clients appreciate cleanliness and the free use of antiseptics. Also, he has in his saloon a certificate to that effect. In our own saloon, the razors, scissors, combs, machines and brushes are each disinfected both before and after use on every client. At the end of the day’s work, they are put in a cabinet with formalin. The saloons, too, are washed out twice a week with disinfectant, and the towels, approximately 12 dozen, washed twice a week, and the covers washed and ironed; neck wool is used in both saloons. I hold no brief for the Wellington hairdressers in general, as I think that there are a good many incompetent so-ealled tradesmen —in this respect, that they have not had sufficient experience. Whether it is that they are paying a premium to learn the trade, at the client’s expense, or simply that the wages of a first-class tradesman will not be paid, I do not know, but I do know that I have seen them at their work, and have submitted myself to their ministrations, and can sympathise with “Strewelpeter.” As regards “Sad’s” Napier hairdressers, many clients throughout New Zealand have their particular likes. I can say that there ate many good tradesmen working on relief in Wellington, and if the hairdressers would employ these men at a living wage, the public would get competent service.—l am, etc.. 29 YEARS A HAIRDRESSER. Feilding, January S.