Pedicure Safety

A great way to prepare your bare feet for show is with a pedicure, but poor sanitation at nail salons and spa's can lead to you leaving with more than you paid for. If you're not careful, you could end up leaving the salon with more than beautiful toenails. Poor sanitation can spread fungi, warts and bacteria while overly aggressive trimming and filing can cause injury and infection. Areas to be aware of with pedicures are:

Sanitation- Le Petit Spa uses hospital grade disenfectant on all metal tools and uses brand new orange sticks and files on each client, which are then given to the client to take home.

Callus Filing - Le Petit Spa uses pumice stones for filing down calluses in lieu of the metal counterpart which can lead to extensive skin removal, causing potential skin splitting and injury to the foot.

Keeping your feet out of whirlpools: -Their filters trap dirt and bacteria (outbreaks of painful boils on the lower legs have been traced to these). Le Petit Spa uses a fresh bowl for each pedicure and cleanses them thouroghly with hospital grade disinfectant between uses.

visit www.lepetitspa.ca for more information on pedicures.

some of the information in this article can be found at: http://magazines.ivillage.com/goodhousekeeping/hb/health/articles/0,,284598_648339,00.html