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HomeBusiness and Professions CodeDiv. 3Ch. 10Art. 8§ 7364 Skin Care Training Requirements

§ 7364 Skin Care Training Requirements

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§ 7364 Skin Care Training Requirements

Key Takeaways

  • •To become a skin care specialist, you must complete at least 600 hours of training.
  • •You must learn about health and safety, like how to handle chemicals and prevent diseases.
  • •You must learn how to clean and disinfect tools to keep customers and yourself safe.
  • •You must learn how to take care of skin, like giving facials and removing hair, but not using lasers.

Example

If you want to work at a spa giving facials and waxing.

You need to finish a 600-hour course that teaches you how to safely give facials, remove hair, and keep everything clean. If you don't take the course, you can't work legally.

AI-generated — May contain errors. Not legal advice. Always verify source.

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§ 7364 Skin Care Training Requirements

(a) A course in skin care course established by a school shall consist of not less than 600 hours of practical and technical instruction. (b) The curriculum for a skin care course shall, at a minimum, include technical and practical instruction in the following areas: (1) One hundred hours in health and safety, which includes hazardous substances, chemical safety, safety data sheets, protection from hazardous chemicals, preventing chemical injuries, health and safety laws and regulations, and preventing communicable diseases. (2) One hundred hours in disinfection and sanitation, which includes disinfection procedures to protect the health and safety of consumers as well as the technician and proper disinfection procedures for equipment used in establishments. (3) Three hundred fifty hours in skin care, which includes chemical and manual facials and massaging, stimulating, exfoliating, cleansing, or beautifying the face, scalp, neck, or body by the use of hands, esthetic devices, cosmetic products, antiseptics, lotions, tonics, or creams that do not result in the ablation or destruction of the live tissue. (4) Fifty hours in hair removal and lash and brow beautification, which includes tinting and perming eyelashes and brows and applying eyelashes to any person and includes removing superfluous hair from the body of any person by use of depilatories, tweezers, sugaring, nonprescription chemicals, or waxing, or by the use of devices and appliances of any kind or description, except by the use of lasers or light waves, which are commonly known as rays. (Amended by Stats. 2021, Ch. 648, Sec. 22. (SB 803) Effective January 1, 2022.)

Last verified: January 23, 2026

Key Terms

safetyhealthprescriptiontreatmenthazardousliencurriculumregulation

Related Statutes

  • § 7362.5 Barbering And Cosmetology Training Hours
  • § 7365 Nail Care Training Requirements
  • § 7366 Electrolysis Training Requirements
  • § 7389 Hazardous Substances Safety Course
  • § 2836 Nurse Practitioner Certification Standards

References

  • Official text at leginfo.legislature.ca.gov
  • California Legislature. Business and Professions Code. Section 7364.
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