How to Clean & Sanitise Hairdressing & Barbering Scissors

Scissors are by far the most crucial tool for professionals in the hair industry. Designed specifically for hair cutting purposes, they enable hairdressers and barbers to express their skill, carry out their passion and deliver a high-quality service to clients on a regular basis.

If you read our recent blog, then you’ll understand just why it’s important to invest in good hairdressing scissors. As well as helping to improve haircut quality, higher-end hairdressing scissors can also help to reduce the chance of injury, by reducing the strain on your thumb and fingers, for example.

In this guide from the Kanpeki team, we look at the importance of cleaning and sanitising your hairdressing scissors. Here we discuss why you need to keep your scissors cleaned and sanitised, list some of the best products for doing so and provide our top tips for achieving the greatest results.

 

Importance of Cleaning & Sanitising Your Hairdressing Scissors

It is absolutely essential – now more than ever – that your hairdressing or barbering salon maintains high standards of hygiene. Following the global pandemic and the impact COVID has had on society, salons are required to follow strict guidance on hygiene in order to remain open (when restrictions allow).

This means you and your staff should be using a sanitising system to protect both staff and customers.

Best hygiene practice includes full attention to both people and the equipment they use. Instruments including razors, clippers, scissors, tweezers and combs can all easily spread viruses, fungi, parasites and bacteria to clients if left dirty and uncleaned. In fact, the World Health Organisation (WHO) claims that the coronavirus can survive up to 72 hours on plastic and stainless steel if not cleaned and sanitised thoroughly.

It is therefore vital that you’re on top of regularly cleaning all equipment you handle, including your scissors. Your clients probably wouldn’t feel very comfortable if they knew that you’d used the same scissors on all clients without cleaning them, and if they caused an infection, they’re highly unlikely to return.

So, to summarise the importance of cleaning and sanitising your scissors: it’s because it helps to prevent the risks of cross contamination and germs spreading among staff and clients.

Best Products for Cleaning & Sanitising Your Hairdressing Scissors

There are a wide range of sanitising products developed for cleaning and sanitising your hair cutting tools. However, a lot of these sanitisers cause damage to the scissors by stripping them of their lubricant, which can cause the scissors’ tension setting, the smoothness of the cut and their life expectancy all to deteriorate.

At Kanpeki, we’ve created the Kanpki SaniLube system to help salons keep their workplace safe and scissors working as they should be. Consisting of a sanitiser spray and brush lubricator, it enables you to blast germs away and accurately replace essential lubricant, making it the ultimate system for keeping your scissors hygienic and COVID-safe. Let us explain more…

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Top Tips for Cleaning & Sanitising Your Hairdressing Scissors

Below are some of our top tips for effectively cleaning and sanitising your hairdressing and barbering scissors –

• Make sure you are using suitable, high-quality products to clean and sanitise your hair cutting equipment and ones that don’t cause damage.
• When spraying your scissors with disinfectant, open blades and spray both sides from around 25cm.
• After spraying your scissors with disinfectant, carefully wipe scissor stock and blade inners.
• Disinfect your tools before and after seeing each client, as well as at the start and end of each shift.
• Always make sure your scissors are stored away clean and dry (to avoid corrosion from residual water and other substances).

 

Cleaning & Sanitising Equipment with Kanpeki

Here at Kanpeki, we are passionate about helping hairdressers and barbers effectively clean and sanitise their hair cutting equipment. Our SaniLube System, as discussed above, is ideal for salons looking to make sure they follow hygienic procedures and kill germs. To find out more about how it works, the benefits it provides or to make a purchase, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with our team today.

We also specialise in manufacturing the highest-quality hairdressing and barbering scissors. Made from the finest Japanese and American stainless steel, they are used by stylists throughout the UK and across Europe.