We’re committed to your health and safety

Recharge Medical and Day Spa is owned and operated by health care professionals with years of experience in public health and clinical medicine.

Health and safety at the spa

Our health and safety standards surpass those required by law. Our cleanliness and sterilization procedures are the same used in American hospital settings. These higher standards increase our costs, but they provide a significant reduction in health risk as compared with spas with less stringent standards.

Our health & safety procedures

Before each service:

1. Stainless steel instruments are scrubbed and soaked in medical-grade germicide then sterilized with a medical-grade autoclave.
2. Chair, bed, and table surfaces are disinfected.
3. Our staff member washes his/her hands.
4. The site of treatment is also cleansed (clients wash hands before service, feet are washed, face is cleaned, injection sites are disinfected, etc.)

During service:

1. Our staff member wears medical nitrile gloves for procedures that require gloved hands. (No need to worry if you have a latex allergy.)
2. Clean towels and sheets are used for treatments that require them. We never reuse these items until after they have been washed.
3. Tools never come into contact with customers unless they are new or have been sterilized.
4. We never use spa chair foot baths.
5. We don’t do acrylic or artificial nails.
6. We never cut cuticles.

After each service:

1. Tools that cannot be sterilized are given to the customer or disposed. We never reuse these implements.
2. Bowls used for facials, manicure soaks, and pedicure soaks are cleaned and soaked in medical-grade germicide.

Additional steps include:

1. All table, counter, chair, and bed surfaces are disinfected.
2. The floor is cleaned of debris.
3. We perform autoclave spore testing to ensure that our autoclave is operating properly. This testing is monitored by an independent monitoring agency. View our participation certificate:

   

   Our most recent spore test results are available upon request.
4. Our clean room / dirty room system, like those used in hospitals, ensures that dirty items do not come in contact with clean items.
5. Staff is trained in infection control practices.
6. Internal audits are conducted on each staff member and on the facility to ensure proper health and safety standards are being preformed continuously and correctly.
7. We keep our spa environment as free as possible of toxic chemicals, and we use chemical-free alternatives where possible. For the very few chemicals that remain in the spa we follow OSHA requirements for the safety of our clients and staff. We do not provide services for artificial nails.

If you observe any of our staff not following these safety procedures, please notify the manager immediately. If you have a suggestion for how we can improve our procedures, please let us know. We respect your active participation in the services you receive. If you would like to make a comment or suggestion anonymously, send snail mail to our mailing address, slip a note under our door when we are closed, or use our contact us form.

Health & safety

• Why we never use spa chair foot baths
• Why we don’t do acrylic or artificial nails
• Why we never cut cuticles
• Why only licensed physicians perform our laser treatments
• About the health and safety of facial treatments
• About the health and safety of hand and foot treatments
• About the health and safety of waxing treatments
• About the health and safety of massage treatments