Cosmetologist and b eautitian : legal aspects of education

1. Cosmetologist and beautitian: legal aspects of education Katarzyna Pytkowska, Jacek Arct Wyższa Szkoła Zawodowa Kosmetyki i Pielęgnacji Zdrowia w Warszawie

2. Who cares for our beauty? • Beautician • Technician of beauty services • Cosmetologist (B.Sc.) • Cosmetologist (M.Sc.) • The lack of definition - beautician in Poland is not a regulated profession www.experto24.pl

3. To open and operate a beauty salon you have to: register a business and meet the requirements of "sanitary„regulationThe absence of any additional formal requirements for training staff! …anyonecan be a „beautician”

7. Levels of education • Courses • Technical Colleges • Post-secondary schools • B.Sc. inCosmetology • M.Sc. inCosmetology • NoformalPh.D. inCosmetology • 1st or 2nd degree inotherfields(eg Public Health) „cosmetic” specialization • Postgraduatecourses • Specialised for cosmetologists • General for graduates of different fields (natural sciences?)

8. The core, basic courses • The level varies widely - from a few months to the annual • There is no requirement for accreditation of courses (eg. in the guild, ministry, etc.) • No do not give the full skills necessary to work in the beauty parlour

9. Specialized training • Short - time (1 - 2 days) • Relate to specific treatments • Designed for beauticians? • They are often condition of the purchase of equipment or preparation (enforcing participation in the training) • Longer, general trainings • Podiatry, massage, nails, … • The level is very different, unspecified target group • Misuse of money from EU funds

11. Technical Colleges andpost-secondary schools • Beauticians are trained to work in the beauty parlours. • Level • Dependent on the unit, large differences in training programs • Comparison to Germany: • In Poland: good level of practicaltraining,poorlevel of thetheory (in particular elements of knowledge on cosmetics and the psychology of the profession)

12. B.Sc. inCosmetology • First of all - what is cosmetology? • Three opinions: • The official (PKA): science included in the group of Health Sciences • The actual (most universities in practice): beauticians professional development, especially in the fieldof Health Sciences • Unofficial but logical: a multidisciplinary science

13. Official position on the basis of the so-called „educational standards” • Higher vocational education, training for highly qualified beauticians • Does not give any additional rights • A number of medical subjects (dermatology, general medicine, pathophysiology .....) • Borderland of aesthetic medicine (medical profession thatofficially does not exist)

14. The new law on higher education abolished the educational standards for the Cosmetology „Small”universitiesstill must apply for permission to conduct education.PKA evaluationafterthreeyears (and subsequentevaluationaftereveryc.a. 5 years)

15. B.Sc. – thepractice • Most of the „cosmetological” universities was established on the basis of post-secondary schools and took their faults - mostly one-sidedness of theeducation • Vocational training for work in the beauty parlour, often at the level from the past • Lack of modern equipment - mainly manual treatments • Hardware components shifted onto the practice in salons

16. B.Sc. – thepractice • Other subjects quite by accident on a "who manages to employ the minimum curriculum", most physicians of various specialties and employees of large universities and institutes not having anything to do with cosmetology • Hiring a purely formal employees of habilitation • Most errors in the wider knowledge on cosmetics • Casual staff • There are no books in Polish. In the existing are serious factual errors at the junction general chemistry and cosmetology • Failure to cooperate with the cosmetics industry

17. Cosmetology as the science • Cosmetology includes knowledge of cosmetics and their use • these are inseparable terms, areas of each wholly dependent on, which can not exist in isolation from each other • Multidisciplinary science, driven by basic, economic and socialsciences development as well as technologies that are derivatives of this development: • Skin biology, medicine, pharmacology, chemistry, physics, toxicologyetc., • Psychology, sociological mechanisms which create patterns and marketingniches, the profit from the sale of raw materials, products and services,

18. Cosmetology as the science • Research in different sectors • The main areas are: • The search for new active substances • Systems and methods for transepidermaldosage of active substances and transport to specific layers of the skin • Physical and chemical forms of cosmetics • Study on the effectiveness of cosmetics (skin and hair) • Toxicological studies in application conditions, alternative methods • Studies of theproduct reception, (subjective and objective within the target group)

19. Cooperationwithphysicians • Cooperation with the physicianrequires a certain knowledge of both sides • Continuous exchange of ideas • Education ofboth professional groups • Cosmetologist must understand medical procedures for the maintenance of beauty and correction of defects • Cosmetologist must understand the pathology of the skin and its appendages • Dermatologist and especially aesthetic medicine physician should be familiar with the basic principles of beauty treatments and have some knowledge about the characteristics and use of cosmetics.

20. Cooperationwithchemists and pharmacists • The area adjacent to the professionof cosmetologist: formulation and manufacture of cosmetics. • The traditional domain of chemists, pharmacists and biotechnologists. • Area of ​​competence more difficult to define than at the interface with medicine, both because of the lack of regulation and a much wider range of problems connecting the two areas. • A number of elements of cosmetic chemistry, in technology, analytical chemistry and production of raw materials goes beyond basic education of cosmetologist • Many of the issues belong to common areas: • Properties of cosmetic forms, elements of cosmetic formulations, raw material properties and behavior, the problems of bioavailability of active ingredients, methods of evaluating the effectiveness and safety of the use of finished products, etc. • Cosmetologist, due to the wider basic and special education, isin many cases superior tochemist or toxicologist, or even thepharmacist

21. I am a cosmetologist(or a beautician) Whatcan I do in my beautyparlour? (thereis no directregulation, exceptthe „sanitary” one)

22. The problem: cosmetology – aestheticmedicineborderline • A lot of legal controversies • Performing treatments with epidermal rupture (needlemesotherapy and others) • Borderline: Laser – IPL • Borderline: dermabrasion - microdermabrasion

25. Z serwisu oferia.pl:

26. IPL

27. Peelings

28. Laser treatments

29. Hyaluronicacidinjections

30. Botox

31. Consumer vs. beautitian • The average consumer • does not have idea about howcosmeticswork • does not distinguish invasive from noninvasivetreatments • does not know what is the significance of „diplomas and certificates” • does not know her/his rights

32. We have to carry out a clear dividing line between cosmetology and close areas: • aesthetic medicine and dermatology, • cosmetic chemistry and technology • specialized marketing of goods and services in the industry • Cosmetologist and aesthetic medicine doctor or dermatologist should cooperate,not compete!

33. Thankyou for yourattention!