When painting someone’s nails, you don’t consider the risks of nail dust. It’s incredibly little! Who can it possibly harm?

Here’s the deal, though:

In the salon (or your designated room, if you operate a salon from home) the dust and vapours accumulate if you are painting nails all day for weeks or months. Every time you disturb this dust, which congregates on surfaces, a cloud will form. Though it’s almost certainly impossible to acquire all of it, you could possibly sweep or vacuum it up.

But how is it important, you ask? Just nail dust, is that all? Each person has nails. What exactly makes them so dangerous?

Let’s find out, shall we?

1. What Makes Nail Dust Risky?

Your nose, lungs, and eyes may become irritated and even become allergic hypersensitive as a result of inhaling very tiny nail dust. Additionally, it could include fungus and microbiological detritus.

The ‘ingredients’ of nail dust are actually listed below:

• Nails and hair are both comprised of keratin, a protein.
• Hydrolysates of keratin
• Substances found in nail polish
• (In the case of artificial nails) Acrylics
• Microorganisms (fungi, such as saprophytes and dermatophytes)
• Nail dust is made up of tiny fragments of natural or artificial nails, nail polish (if the nails were painted), or acrylic (from artificial nails). Some of the dust particles can be as tiny as a strand of hair, if you consider.

2. Particles of large nail dust

Much less time is spent in the air by larger dust particles. When you file the nails, they fly up, but because they are too heavy, they quickly come back down.

Even if you do breathe them in, your nose hair might halt them before they enter the nasal canal.

3. Particles of tiny nail dust

On the other hand, smaller particles can float in the air for a longer period of time. They also have a higher likelihood of slipping through the nasal hair. As they travel down your respiratory passage, which connects your nose to your lungs, they may irritate it.

4. Particles of ultra-fine nail dust

Ultra-fine particles, which float in the air for even longer periods of time, are considerably more hazardous. These can enter your lungs through your respiratory passage without being at all prevented by the nose hair. They may even travel through the lung tissue to enter your bloodstream at this point.

5. Debris from fungi and bacteria

Although they can’t directly infect your lungs, some fungus and bacteria can be found in nails. These organisms are often extremely small and can enter your nasal route. Asthma and irritability may result from them.

6. What Harmful Effects Does Nail Dust Have on Health?

Nail dust can enter your body, as we already discussed, and irritate your eyes, nose, and lungs.

Long-term eye irritation can cause tearing, redness, inflammation, conjunctivitis, and even conjunctival itching.

Itching, sneezing, and rhinitis (nose inflammation; the words “rhinitis” and “rhinoceros” share the same root word and both mean “nose”) within the nose can be brought on by nail dust!

The irritation of the respiratory tract brought on by nail dust can result in asthma. It can also result in allergic hypersensitivity, a fancy way of saying that it can make people sensitive to nail dust permanently. As a result, you will experience allergy symptoms—which could include breathing difficulties—as soon as you are exposed to it.

7. How Can You Avoid Being Exposed to Nail Dust at Salons?

Using personal protective equipment and eliminating the dust as it is produced will help you protect yourself from the negative effects of nail dust.

buffing nails while donning purple gloves, sending nail dust flying

I.D.s (Individual Defense Equipment)
Simply put, personal defense refers to shielding your body from dust. You can do it by using:

Eye protection glasses: Eye protection glasses shield your eyes from dust.
Gloves: After getting your nails done, you can wash the fine dust off of your hands by wearing gloves to keep it off.
a face mask Facemasks prevent dust from entering your nose by blocking it.

8. Extraction Techniques

Personal protective clothing can help you protect yourself from nail dust to some extent, but you also need extraction equipment to remove the dust from its source and prevent it from becoming airborne.

The Yournailsupplier unit is only one of the extraction systems for beauty salons that has to offer. A flexible ‘arm’ that you may position over the nails as you file them is part of our at-source nail dust extraction technology. As the dust is produced, it’sucks’ it in.

By upgrading it, you can add a Yournailsupplier attachment. Your client’s hand is resting on the device, which is positioned on the table. When you trim their nails, the machine’s suction draws the dust into it, so you and your client both breathe in the dust.