Save Your Texas Home from Beauty Products!
Is your Texas home safe from your beauty products?
Save Your Texas Home from Your Beauty Products!
 Curling irons, hot rollers and hair dryers are some of your home’s worst enemies.
According to recent studies, if a hot curling iron could be considered a deadly weapon floors and furniture throughout Great Britain would be screaming assault and battery! Feeling the sting of the economic recession over there as keenly as we have here, many people have begun to skip their regular visits to their hairdresser in favor of managing their own beauty routines-and their homes are paying the price. Claims are rolling in to insurance companies left and right from homeowners trying to recover their investment on counters and sofas irreparably damaged by curling irons, nail polish and hot rollers, and homeowners insurance providers are paying them.
When I first heard this I had to chuckle a little bit until I realized that this same scenario has probably played itself out over and over again inside Texas borders.
Ironically enough, the number of insurance claims filed by Texas homeowners involving beauty products isn’t readily available online (which is amazing when you consider the fact that you can find just about anything else on the web-whether you want to or not!). Rather than badgering my homeowners insurance agent on a Monday for statistics that they may or may not have had access to, I decided to go digging around online to see what insurance providers, cosmetics companies and home safety inspectors had to say about keeping your home safe from the hazards of your beauty routine.
Here’s what I found:
1) First and foremost, always unplug your curling iron when it’s not in use-and make sure you give it plenty of time to cool before putting it away! Their thick metal rods hold heat for up to an hour after you cut the power, and it only takes a spark to set the bottom of your bathroom sink blazing. That goes for hot rollers and hairdryers too!
2) Whenever possible, avoid the temptation to take off your old nail polish on your couch-or at your kitchen table. The acetone in nail polish will bleach the color from your wood, your sofa and your carpets just as quickly as it will your nails, and your homeowners insurance may or may not be able to help you out with the loss. (This type of protection is usually considered a rather expensive addition to your insurance policy.)
3) Never set your nail polish remover next to a hot curling iron, or your curling iron next to a puddle of nail polish remover. Don’t leave it lying next to the stove either! Acetone is extremely flammable, and the last thing you want to have to do is explain to your homeowners insurance provider how your bathroom walls got charred while you were doing your nails.
4) Speaking of flammable substances, handle hairspray with care around hot objects. If you’ve ever watched “Buffy, the Vampire Slayer” (the 1992 movie with Kristy Swanson and Luke Perry, not Sarah Michelle Gellar’s runaway television hit) you know EXACTLY how flammable hairspray can be. Save it for the vamps, not your bathroom.
5) Regularly inspect your beauty products, especially electrical appliances, for wiring problems. If something’s “just not working right”, get rid of it. A $50 investment in a new appliance is much better than a $200 homeowners insurance deductible when the short decides to start shooting sparks.
6) Nair and other chemical hair removal products are NOT the same as regular lotion, and they will do irreparable damage to your sofa, tables and carpets. Try to restrict their use to the bathroom, where the tiles of your sink, floor and shower can easily hold their own against chemical invasion, and make sure the top is on tight and they’re tucked away somewhere they won’t leak on your towels and send your dryer up in flames. (You laugh, but it’s happened!)
7) Finally, be sure you dispose of all of your chemically based beauty products appropriately.
Nair + hot cigarette butts in a trash can=fire.
Do the math!
They say that beauty is pain, but watching your house burn to the ground and having to explain to your Texas homeowners insurance provider exactly how your hot rollers were responsible is much more painful than going out unshaven with straight hair. Be sure to handle your beauty products with care, or your name might be the next to appear on “Furniture’s Most Wanted!”
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