by Amy Rouiler | Dec 18, 2025 | IMC Compliance, Nails, Salon
Use this checklist to quickly evaluate whether your salon, studio, or medi spa meets International Mechanical Code (IMC) ventilation requirements for nail services. ✅ Workstation Ventilation ☐ Each manicure station provides a minimum of 50 CFM of exhaust airflow ☐...
by Amy Rouiler | Dec 9, 2025 | IMC Compliance, Nails, Salon
Nail salons rely on a wide variety of products—polishes, removers, acrylics, gels, adhesives, primers—that release chemical fumes, vapors, and fine particulate matter into the air. Without proper ventilation, these pollutants accumulate quickly in the breathing zone,...
by Amy Rouiler | Nov 25, 2025 | Hair, Medi-Spa, Nails, Salon, Tattoo
When it comes to managing beauty-service fumes, dust, and odors, many salons wonder which approach is most effective: room air cleaners vs. source capture. While salon air purifiers play an important role in improving overall indoor air quality, they are not designed...
by Amy Rouiler | Nov 24, 2025 | Hair, Medi-Spa, Nails, Salon, Tattoo
Behind every clean, comfortable salon environment lies a powerful scientific principle: controlling airflow at the exact point where contaminants are created. This is the foundation of source capture ventilation, the gold standard in modern salon air quality...
by Amy Rouiler | Nov 21, 2025 | Hair, Medi-Spa, Nails, Salon, Tattoo
Chemical processing in salons, medi-spas, and tattoo studios—whether hair coloring, chemical peels, laser treatments, permanent makeup, or ink application—creates a continuous stream of fumes, vapors, odors, and microscopic airborne particles. These contaminants...
by Development Team | Nov 14, 2025 | Hair, Medi-Spa, Nails, Salon
In today’s salons, air quality is more than a comfort issue, it’s a critical part of workplace safety. Chemical services like acrylic nails, gel enhancements, color treatments, keratin smoothing, lash services, and medi-spa applications all release fumes...
