피부관리실 형태에 따른 미생물 오염도

Abstract

In this study, visited total 20 ordinary skin care shops or medical skin care clinics in Daegu and Gyeongbuk regions and measured the microbiological contamination of the seven skin care items that most frequently come into contact with skin: gown, towel, spatula, turban, sponge, and makeup brush. The analysis of the type and number of microbes that contaminated the skin care tools used at skin care shops showed that all the bacteria were found fewer in medical skin care clinics than in ordinary skin care shops. This suggests that better hygienic management is provided to medical skin care clinics than to ordinary skin care shops, since Medicine Act specifies how to disinfect the tools used in medical institutions and hygiene education is supervised by nurses. For ordinary skin care shops, however, current system fails to specify standards for hygienic management of skin care shops. As the analysis of microbes found on skin care tools has detected a lot of bacteria and different shops have adopted all different and subjective management methods due to the absence of hygiene standards for skin care shops, it is now known that the hygienic management of skin care shops is a serious problem. Therefore, it is imperative that we should present the right method for disinfecting skin care tools with a view to improving the hygiene conditions in skin care shops.