Waxing Insurance
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Comprehensive insurance at a price you can afford
Waxing not only helps remove hair but also makes your customers feel like a million dollars. Performed by a professional like yourself, your client’s skin is left hairless and silky smooth. However, there are obviously risks involved with waxing your customers’ bodies, especially when hot wax is used. This is why every professional who offers waxing needs to have a comprehensive insurance package in place to protect them if a client chooses to make a claim.
Using hot wax on someone’s body comes with a risk of burning their skin, as well as potentially leading to allergic reactions to or skin infections due to opened pores. Should this occur, you may face a legal claim, including expensive fees and high compensation costs that could destroy your business and leave you unable to work.
Here at Salon Gold, we want to offer our customers tailored insurance policies to protect their businesses, ensuring that they will be completely covered if an accident does unfortunately happen, and letting them focus on what’s most important: their customers.
What Do You Get With Our Waxing Insurance?
As standard, our comprehensive insurance packages for professionals automatically include standard covers such as public liability, product liability (up to £5 million) and professional treatment risk insurance (up to £3 million). At Salon Gold, you can also add optional policies if they suit your business requirements. For instance, you will benefit from employer’s liability insurance should you hire anyone — indeed, this is a legal requirement if employing staff — as well as money cover to protect you financially, and stock & equipment in the event of damage or loss. We also offer personal accident insurance to cover you financially in the event that an accident leaves you unable to work.
At Salon Gold, our clients can enjoy tailor-made insurance packages, providing the best quotes possible for their insurance needs. If you’re self-employed, and offer waxing as a service, it’s down to you to ensure you’re suitably insured for this treatment and protected at all costs. With a Salon Gold insurance policy, you only need to worry about offering your customers the best service possible, safe in the knowledge that our comprehensive cover will safeguard your business against any potentially costly claims.
*This price is for a £3m public, products and professional treatment risk liability cover (up to £5m available) and £10k financial loss cover for a sole trader. It includes insurance premium tax and our admin charge. ALL customers will pay this amount UNLESS they choose to take out additional optional covers or treatments which are priced separately.What’s included
- £3m Public, Products and Professional Treatment Risk Liability Cover (up to £5m available)
- £10k Financial Loss Cover
- Insurance Premium Tax
- Our Admin Charge
Which type of Salon Gold policy do I need?
Find out which insurance policy is right for your business by clicking below.
Our Waxing Covers
For Salons & Fixed Premises
- Business interruption »
- Contents cover »
- Employer’s liability »
- Exhibition Cover »
- Failure of electric, gas & water supply »
- Failure of telephone line »
- Glass cover »
- Goods in Transit »
- Legal expenses cover »
- Money cover »
- Personal accident for hands »
- Products liability »
- Professional Treatment Risk »
- Public liability »
- Stock cover »
- 24 hour crisis & legal helplines »
For Mobile & Freelance
Our Beauty Therapist Treatments
Automatically Covered
- Acid peels (AHA/glycolic acid). Above 40% to be referred to us for approval
- Acupressure
- Advanced waxing
- Airbrush tanning
- Application of false tanning products
- Aqua detox
- Aromatherapy
- Ayurvedic Massage
- Baby massage
- Bamboo Massage
- Bikini Hair Colouring
- Bleaching of superfluous hair
- Body wraps
- Bowen technique
- Chinese Foot Massage
- Cranio Sacral therapy
- Crystal healing
- Detox foot spa
- Ear piercing using gun and stud method
- Electrolysis (epilation)
- Endermologie
- Eyebrow treatments including plucking, shaping, tinting, threading, waxing, HD Brows, henna and lamination
- Eyelash treatments including tinting, lifting, perming and applying false eyelashes
- Eyelash extensions – semi permanent
- Eyelash perming and applying false eyelashes
- Facials including ionisation and steam treatments
- Faradic treatments
- Foot Massage
- Galvanic treatments
- HD Brows
- Henna art
- Hopi ear candles
- Hot stone therapy
- Indian Head Massage
- Infra- red treatments
- Kinesiology
- Lava shell massage
- Lomilomi massage
- Make up including day, evening, media, stage, fashion and camouflage
- Manicure
- Manual lymphatic drainage
- “Massage including:
Balinese, Bio-dynamic, Body, Deep Oscillation, Facial, Hand, Hands Free, Hawaiian, Holistic Facial, Korean Hand, Mongolian. Russian Honey, Slavic, Swedish, Thai Hand, Thai Herbal Compress, Thai Tui-Na Massage” - Microcurrent
- Myofascial Release
- Nail cutting, shaping, varnishing, nail art, nail extensions, coatings cured using a UV or LED lamp
- Non-surgical facelift
- Oxygen treatments
- Paraffin wax
- Pedicure
- Pejazzle
- Power Plates
- Pregnancy Massage
- Reflexology
- Reiki
- Self tanning
- Semi-permanent eyelash extensions
- Spray Tanning
- Sports massage
- Su-do Body Art
- Sugaring
- Thai Foot Massage
- Threading
- Toning Tables
- Tooth jewellery
- Ultrasound
- Vacuum suction
- Vajazzle
- Vibro Plates
- Warm bamboo massage
- Waxing
Optional Covers
- Advanced Electrolysis
- Dermalogica Bio Surface Peel
- Dermalogica Pro Power Peel
- Dermaplaning
- Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) Variable Pulse Light (VPL), Intense Flash Light (IFL), Light Heat Energy (LHE), Advanced Fluorescent Technology (AFT), Lasers
- Microdermabrasion
- Micropigmentation / Microblading
- Microneedling
- Million Dollar Facial
- Nose Piercing
- Radio Frequency / Cavitation
- Teaching or Training
"Will qualifications affect my insurance?"
Talking about qualifications when trying to buy insurance for your business can be a bit daunting, but it doesn’t have to be! Here at Salon Gold, we know that there is often a lot of uncertainty over what qualifications you’ll need to be covered, so we’ve compiled all the information you’ll need to know in this handy guide
Teacher Or Student Cover
Do you train other professionals to become instructors in your chosen activity? Our Teacher Training insurance is an extra optional cover. Just add it to any of our freelance hair, beauty, holistic or health & fitness policies. And we offer student insurance — at special student rates!
Waxing insurance FAQs
What insurance do I need for waxing?
At a minimum, you’ll need public liability, products liability and treatment risk cover, plus any additional policies as you see fit. Public liability insurance will be the most important type of insurance you need, as it protects you from compensation claims made against you and your business regarding injury or damage to a client or their property. Products liability insurance covers you in the event that a claim is made against the products you use or supply to your clients, and treatment risk cover protects you against any problems that may arise as a direct result of your waxing treatment such as burned skin. You may find yourself in hot water financially if you don’t have comprehensive insurance cover in place, as these claims tend to be very expensive to settle
How much is waxing insurance?
Your waxing insurance policy will be priced according to your individual circumstances, factoring in your claims history, whether you employ anybody, your experience, and any optional covers you choose to add on. Typically, this starts at around £52 per year, including public liability and treatment risk as standard. However, the best way to find out how much you’ll pay is to get in touch with us for a free quote. You can do this directly through the Salon Gold website.
What can I do to prevent clients from making a claim?
While accidents can sometimes be unavoidable, you can reduce the risk by following the relevant health and safety measures. This may mean testing the temperature of the wax on the client’s skin before applying it fully, which can ensure they are happy with the heat, and asking whether they have any product allergies. You should always carry out risk assessments, sterilise equipment before use, and manage expectations through clear communication with clients.
