Human Skin Pathogens from Cosmetic Tools in Beauty Salons

ISBN-13: 9783659134890 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 72 str.

Shagufta Naz;Mehwish Iqtedar;Komal Aftab

Opis

With the surprising development across the cosmetic and personal care companies the re-utilization of cosmetic tools is of a common practice. Isolation and detection of human skin pathogens from 100 samples of beauty salon tools i.e., blusher brush, face sponge and wax has been done. All the samples were examined microbiologically for the contamination of Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, yeast and fungus. It was observed that the percentage of Staphylococcus aureus was higher (100% in sponge, 100% in brush, 88% in wax) in the tools than Pseudomonas aeruginosa (69.6% in sponge, 81.8% in brush and 73.5% in wax), where counts obtained for fungus was 51.5% in sponge, 30.3% in brush and 20.5% in wax. It was observed that the major cause of contamination of saloon tools is repetitive usage on all costumers without considering the hygienic conditions.

O autorze

Dr. Shagufta Naz Assistant professor Zoology did her MSc Zoology. Mphil and ph.D. in Molecular genetics. Dr. Mehwish Iqtedar Assistant professor Biotechnology & Microbiology did her MSc and ph.D. Microbiology from University of the Punjab, Lahore. Komal Aftab has done her BS Zoology, currently enrolled for MS Biotechnology & Microbiology from LCWU.