License the woman who gives bikini waxes? No, said Utah House members Monday. But a couple of hours after killing the esthetician licensing bill, sponsor Rep. Sheryl Allen, R-Bountiful, got lawmakers to call it back, ready for a revote later in the week.
Allen says that the "professionals who work on and use what could be dangerous chemicals on the largest organ of the body - the skin" are today unregulated.She said there are about 500 estheticians in Utah. Some are also cosmetologists or barbers, and so are licensed for those professions.
Allen's bill, besides licensing etheticians and ethetician schools, also requires that anyone who touches a woman's breast in relation to etheticics must get the written persmission of the client.
"It protects (clients) from inappropriate and unlawful" activities, she said.
Her bill failed 37-37. But she will bring it back later for another vote.