The Spa Encyclopedia:: A Guide to Treatments & Their Benefits for Health & Healing, 1st Edition
by Hannelore R. Leavy, Reinhard R. Bergel, Ph.D.

Description:
Everything you ever wanted to know about spa treatments and more, can be found in the pages of The New Spa Encyclopedia. Beginning with a brief description of spa history and the current state of the industry description, the book moves right into treatments. From specifics on treatments such as what to expect, what to look for, and how each treatment benefits the mind and body, to cautions on when not to seek certain treatments, this is a complete delight for the spa enthusiast as well as the health and beauty professional.

Benefits:
• Logical organization and grouping of spa treatments make the book easy-to-use and more useful to individuals seeking alternative spa treatments
• A comparison and history of spas, as well as a guide to client responsibilities will assist individuals in choosing the most appropriate and desirable site for services ensuring a more enjoyable and beneficial experience for clients
• Beyond just defining terms, this is a thorough guide to what is involved in spa treatments, from processes to equipment, supplies, benefits, and cautions

HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis: Everything You Need to Know to Protect Yourself, 1st Edition
by Douglas Schoon

Description:
Here's up-to-date coverage that reveals the truth behind HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis, and clearly explains the steps that salon professionals should take to control the spread of infectious diseases. Features: -The truth about myths to eliminate fears caused by misinformation so you can deal with your clients' concerns about infectious diseases -Salon sanitation and disinfection procedures to protect you and your clients -A clear explanation of how the HIV virus is transmitted and ways it can not be transmitted, eliminating confusion and uncertainty

Benefits:
• The truth about myths to eliminate fears caused by misinformation so you can deal with your clients concerns about infectious diseases
• Salon sanitation and disinfection procedures to protect you and your clients
• A clear explanation of how the HIV virus is transmitted and ways it can not be transmitted, eliminating confusion and uncertainty

Playing it Safe: Milady's Guide to Decontamination, Sterlization, and Personal Protection, 1st Edition
by Sheldon R. Chesky, Isabel Cristina, Richard Rosenberg

Description:
Not only does this invaluable resource explain the microbiology involved with contamination, it details what measures salon professionals should take in order to protect themselves and their clients. This is one book no salon professional should be without! Features: -Compliance measures for OSHA, EPA, FDA, state licensing boards, and the health department -The difference between harmful and helpful microbes and how they relate to the salon professional's concerns about sanitation, sterilization and disenfection -Comprehensive coverage from the definition of microbes and how they are transmitted, through protection procedures and guidelines -How to protect both salon professionals and their clients with a practical, hands-on guide to proper salon practices for decontaminating all surfaces that could create an unsafe enviroment

Benefits:
• Compliance measures for OSHA, EPA, FDA, state licensing boards, and the health department
• The difference between harmful and helpful microbes and how they relate to the salon professional's concerns about sanitation, sterilization and disinfection
• Comprehensive coverage from the definition of microbes and how they are transmitted, through protection procedures and guidelines
• How to protect both salon professionals and their clients with a practical hands-on guide to proper salon practices for decontaminating all surfaces

In the Bag: Selling in the Salon, 1st Edition
by Carol Phillips

Description:
An authoritative, exciting resource providing the building blocks necessary to generate sales day in and day out, featuring proven tips, techniques and technologies for generating additional sales revenue. Features: -How to set the stage for selling and build a sale without feeling pushy -Everything you need to know for developing your selling skills -How to build your business through promotions and advertising and building the foundations for personal success ALSO AVAILABLE Audiotape, ISBN: 1-56253-341-X Salon Systems Videos(set of two tapes), ISBN: 0-87350-999-4

Benefits:
• How to set the stage for selling and build a sale without feeling pushy
• Everything you need to know for developing your selling skills
• How to build your business through promotions and advertising and building the foundations for personal success

SalonOvations' Day Spa Operations, 1st Edition
by Erica Miller

Description:
Essential to prospective day spa operators and highly useful to veteran owners who want to boost their bottom line, this compact introductory handbook covers all the practical aspects of planning, operating, and maintaining a flourishing day spa. Here is expert guidance on how to purchase a day spa, hammer out an effective business and strategic battle plan, obtain financing, set up a dynamic day spa program, create attractive and profitable packages to enhance overall business, and market your services.

Benefits:
• Insight into the typical day spa client as well as numerous business and retail service tips
• Practical details on natural elements, aromatherapy, hydrotherapy, and other services that can put you several steps ahead of your competition
• How to incorporate profitable water and body treatments within the limitations of your current salon

SalonOvations' Day Spa Techniques, 1st Edition
by Erica Miller

Description:
This book is the first in the industry to help you offer successful day spa treatments in your salon. It covers simple treatments for upgrading manicures, pedicures, and facials up to current day spa concepts. Plus it provides teaching methods for the full scale hydrotherapy and full body treatments. The various segments of treatments are presented singularly and in combination with each other to maximize your treatment and business potential. The only advanced resource book of its kind.

Benefits:
• history of the evolving day spa and its continuing development
• extensive overview of water treatments
• step-by-step techniques for body treatments
• advice on home care
• quick review tips interspersed throughout chapters, with synopses, end-of-chapter rvws, and review questions/answers at end of book

SalonOvations' Guide to Aromatherapy, 1st Edition
by Shelley Hess

Description:
Here's the first and only book on aromatherapy solely devoted to the beauty industry. Designed for all skill levels, it offers a full spectrum of non-product specific recipes, definitions, and tried-and-true techniques in the hair, skin, and nail products commonly used by cosmetologists and helps you determine which mixtures of various elements are the most effective for certain kinds of therapies.

Benefits:
• An overview of the history of aromatherapy and how it affects today's practices
• Detailed descriptions of the most frequently use plants, roots, and herbs that make up current commercial therapy products
• Step-by-step techniques providing practical insights
• Information and sourcing suppliers

SalonOvations' The Motivated Salon, 1st Edition
by Mark Foley

Description:
Mark Foley, one of North America's premier salon consultants, has put his vast expertise between covers, detailing how you can apply time-tested practical and psychological strategies to attract and retain clients while prompting them to purchase more of your products and services. This book provides you with hard-hitting sales and marketing methods that are sure to yield more profitable results. Features: -Sales strategies and marketing techniques and how to apply them to your salon -Customer service: what it is and how to offer it to your clients -How to make the most of client purchases -The how?s, when?s and why?s of customer service

Benefits:
• Sales strategies and marketing techniques and how to apply them to your salon
• Customer service: what it is and how to offer it to your clients
• How to make the most of client purchases.
• The how's, when's and why's of customer service

1998-99 Guide to Cosmetology Licensing, 1st Edition
by Milady

Description:
A comprehensive reference book containing complete and up-to-date licensing and State Board of Cosmetology information essential for all beauty students, educators, and salon professionals. It is a one-of-a-kind resource for the entire beauty industry.

Benefits:
• Detailed licensing analysis for each of the 50 states of the USA, Puerto Rico, and Canada
• State participating in the national testing program
• State-by-state requirements for licensure
• Interstate reciprocity requirements
• Regulations regarding cross-over licensing
• Student-teacher ratios
• Addresses of State Boards of Cosmetology
• Key contacts and state board members
• All major industry associations and chain salons
• State-by-state listings of cosmetology schools