Question 1 / Observation

1. Define the following terms:
2. Hygiene;
3. Personal hygiene;
4. Oral hygiene.

      (b)  List five characteristics of a good disinfectant used in salon.
(c)  State six safety precautions to be taken to prevent accident in the use of chemicals      
(d)  Sate five bad ethics that a cosmetologist should avoid in a salon.
(e)   In four sentences, describe a first aid box.
(f)   Mention four conditions for establishing a beauty salon.

OBSERVATION

 Majority of the Candidates who attempted question1(a, b, c &d) were able to define:  Hygiene, personal hygiene and oral hygiene, list characteristics of a good disinfectant used in salon, state safety precautions to be taken to prevent accident in the use of chemicals and bad ethics that a cosmetologist should avoid in a salon correctly. However, in 1(e), the candidates were unable to describe first aid box, rather they gave the definition first aids treatment instead of:

•  it is a wooden /plastic/metal box.;
•  it is attached to the wall;
• must not be hung to high or low;
• always locked and has handle for easy carriage.

Question 1(f), was on conditions for establishing a beauty salon, majority of the candidates that attempted the question answered correctly but few of the candidates could not mention the following points:

• types of service in the mind;
• good managerial skills;
• available of car park;
• availability of licence.