Ep 223: Why I Wear Gloves For Every Service
Estheticians, are you wearing gloves during EVERY service? 🧤
In Episode 223 of the Stephanie Laynes Institute Beauty Business Podcast, I’m sharing why wearing gloves for every service has become a non-negotiable part of how I work as an esthetician.
We talk so much about protecting our clients—but who is protecting the esthetician?
Throughout your career, your hands come into contact with clients’ skin, skincare products, exfoliants, waxes, tools, equipment, surfaces, and potentially bodily fluids. When you're performing services day after day and client after client, those repeated exposures matter.
For me, wearing gloves is about protection, sanitation, consistency, and professionalism.
🧤 In This Episode, We’re Talking About:
✨ Why I choose to wear gloves for every service
✨ Protecting yourself AND your clients
✨ Why your hands are an important part of your livelihood
✨ Cross-contamination in the treatment room
✨ Why gloves still need to be changed during a service
✨ Why wearing gloves does NOT replace proper handwashing
✨ Creating consistent sanitation habits with every client
✨ Thinking about long-term exposure when you perform services every day
💡 Protect the Esthetician Too!
As beauty professionals, we're trained to think about the health and safety of our clients—but we need to think about ourselves too.
Your hands are working every single day.
Protect them.
For me, gloves aren't something I save for certain services. Wearing them has become part of my professional standard for EVERY service.
And remember: simply putting on gloves doesn't eliminate the possibility of cross-contamination.
If you touch your phone, a cabinet, a dirty tool, the trash can, or another contaminated surface with your gloves, you may need to change your gloves before continuing the service.
Good infection-control practices require awareness throughout the entire appointment.
🎧 Listen to EP 223: Why I Wear Gloves Every Service and hear why I've made this choice throughout my career as an esthetician.
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