That barber school textbook had a stat about clipper burn I never saw coming

I was flipping through an old 2019 textbook from my barber program in Pittsburgh and found a line saying over 60% of first year barbers get contact dermatitis from not cleaning their clipper blades properly between clients. I had no idea it was that common, I always thought it was just me being careless with the cooling spray. Anyone else run into a random fact like that in training that totally explains something you dealt with early on?

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beth_sanchez472h ago

Wow, 60%? That makes me feel way better about the two months I spent convinced my clippers were personally out to get me. I was spraying that cooling stuff on like it was holy water and still walking around with angry red hands like I'd been petting a cactus. The gross part is you never think about how much hair and skin and product gunk builds up in those blades until someone tells you. So basically half the people in my class were walking around with chemically angry skin and just quietly suffering instead of, I don't know, actually cleaning their tools. Good to know we were all just nasty together.

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