Could your business receive new sustainable salon certification?

Continuing the drive to make hairdressing a greener industry a new sustainable salon certificate is set to launch in January 2018. It will be awarded to salons whose staff have completed a free virtual salon online training programme. The programme has been designed by the Ecohair team at the University of Southampton and in association with VTCT and Habia, which teaches stylists about key sustainability concepts, technologies and practices. You can find out more about the award at www.ecohairandbeauty.com The certification is set to launch at Karine Jackson’s West End salon, Karine Jackson Hair & Beauty on Wednesday 17 January. Attendees can expect to meet industry professionals, hear a short talk by project leader Dr Denise Baden, learn tips that are good for hair, save time, money and energy as well as being great for the planet too. They can also get free samples and see demonstrations of some new eco technologies such as the Scirocco Smooth which sucks water from the hair removing the need for washing towels which saves lot of water, energy and money. President of the Fellowship for British Hairdressing, Karine Jackson is a former HJ London Hairdresser of the Year, who has long been an advocate of organic colouring and hairdressing. Karine is supporting this new campaign to encourage other salons to become sustainable, and to save thousands of pounds while helping the environment as well as creating a valuable marketing tool. Salon owners can get in touch if they’d like to attend the launch by emailing [email protected].