§ 7364. — 7364. (Amended by Stats. 2021, Ch. 648, Sec. 22.)

California § 7364.

• Jurisdiction: California
• Code BPC: Business and Professions Code - BPC
• Div. 3.: DIVISION 3. PROFESSIONS AND VOCATIONS GENERALLY
• Ch. 10.: CHAPTER 10. Barbering and Cosmetology
• Art. 8.: ARTICLE 8. Schools, Instructors, and Curricula

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(a)
A course in skin care course established by a school shall consist of not less than 600 hours of practical and technical instruction.
(b)
The curriculum for a skin care course shall, at a minimum, include technical and practical instruction in the following areas:
(1)
One hundred hours in health and safety, which includes hazardous substances, chemical safety, safety data sheets, protection from hazardous chemicals, preventing chemical injuries, health and safety laws and regulations, and preventing communicable diseases.
(2)
One hundred hours in disinfection and sanitation, which includes
disinfection procedures to protect the health and safety of consumers as well as the technician and proper disinfection procedures for equipment used in establishments.
(3)
Three hundred fifty hours in skin care, which includes chemical and manual facials and massaging, stimulating, exfoliating, cleansing, or beautifying the face, scalp, neck, or body by the use of hands, esthetic devices, cosmetic products, antiseptics, lotions, tonics, or creams that do not result in the ablation or destruction of the live tissue.
(4)
Fifty hours in hair removal and lash and brow beautification, which includes tinting and perming eyelashes and brows and applying eyelashes to any person and includes removing superfluous hair from the body of any person by use of depilatories, tweezers, sugaring, nonprescription chemicals, or waxing, or by the use of devices and appliances of any kind or
description, except by the use of lasers or light waves, which are commonly known as rays.

Legislative History

Amended by Stats. 2021, Ch. 648, Sec. 22. (SB 803) Effective January 1, 2022.