Salons permitted to sell hair products
April 7, 2020
The Muskingum County Joint Unified Command Center announced updated guidance Monday allowing salons to sell personal care products such as hair spray and shampoo to customers.
The guidance comes after salons were instructed to close following Governor Mike DeWine’s orders earlier last month in an attempt to slow the spread of COVID-19.
The updated order requires that items be purchased online or by phone and picked up outside the business establishment.
“We encourage you to sanitize each product before placing it in a bag and washing or sanitizing your hands between each curbside pickup,” the recommendation instructed.
The notice also strongly encourages limiting availability to no more than four hours per week in an effort to follow the intent of the state’s restrictions.
The order which keeps salons as well as many other businesses closed to customers was extended to May 1 in an executive order by DeWine.
Correction: This story has been updated to reflect that the Ohio State Cosmetology and Barber Board prohibits the sale of professional color to the general public.
Roger T. Thomas • Apr 7, 2020 at 6:37 pm
Dear Y City Staff: My barber tells me she cannot come to my home to cut my hair nor can I go to her home. Hair can only be cut at an approved business address. This beg the question of how local politicians, whose hair looks neat and trimed, manage to skirt the Law? I await your reply. RTT
Michael Payton • Apr 7, 2020 at 5:59 pm
Every business needs to reopen ASAP before every small business closes forever. There are ample supplies of medication to treat this. Go back to work.