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Health and Safety Standards – Manicure and Pedicure Services

The provisions of this §83.106 adopted to be effective March 1, 2006, 31 TexReg 1280; amended to be effective January 1, 2016, 40 TexReg 8759; amended to be effective January 1, 2023, 47 TexReg 8640

  • (a) Cosmetologists and manicurists shall clean their hands with soap and water or a hand sanitizer prior to performing any services.
  • (b) Cosmetologists and manicurists shall clean the areas of the client’s body on which the service is to be administered.
  • (c) All metal manicure and pedicure tools shall be properly cleaned, disinfected and sterilized or sanitized prior to each service, in accordance with this chapter, regardless of the tool’s multiuse for only a single client or for multiple clients.
  • (d) After each client, the following implements shall be cleaned, disinfected and sterilized or sanitized in accordance with the rule: metal pusher and files, cuticle nipper and scissors, metal tweezers, finger and toe nail clippers, and electric drill bits.
Metal manicure and pedicure tools like the ones pictured above must cleaned, disinfected and sterilized or sanitized for each client
  • (e) The following implements are single-use items and shall be discarded after use: orangewood sticks, cotton balls, nail wipes and disposable towels.
Cotton, orangewood sticks, and every other disposable item, like the ones pictured above, must be discarded after each customer.
  • (f) Buffer blocks, porous nail files, pedicure files, callus rasps, natural pumice and foot brush, arbor, sanding bands, sleeves, heel and toe pumice, exfoliating block (washable materials) shall be cleaned by manually brushing or other adequate methods to remove all visible debris after each use, and then sprayed with an EPA-registered bactericidal, fungicidal, and virucidal disinfectant, or a or a high level chlorine bleach solution in accordance with this chapter. If a buffer block or porous nail file is exposed to broken skin (skin that is not intact) or unhealthy skin or nails, it must be discarded immediately after use in a trash receptacle.
  • (g) The following materials that are used during a manicure and pedicure shall be replaced with new or clean articles for each client: terry cloth towels, finger bowls and spatulas that contact skin or skin products from multi-use containers.