Ikon.iq Nails

Do you know what your products really cost per service?

The bottle price only tells part of the story.

A more expensive product can actually cost less per client if you use less of it, achieve coverage in fewer coats, or get more services from each bottle.

That’s exactly why we created BeautyWise.

⁠BeautyWise.co helps nail professionals measure the true product cost per service. Simply weigh your product before and after a set number of services, and BeautyWise calculates:

* How much product you actually use per client
* The real product cost per service
* How many services you can expect from each bottle
* How products from different brands really compare

The example shows a complete IKON.IQ PRIMA gel manicure — dehydrator, bonder, base, colour and top — with a measured product cost of just €0.97 per service.

And at this low cost, you also get peace of mind: we don’t use any of the 12 (meth)acrylate ingredients included in dermatologists’ patch-test series that are most commonly associated with nail product allergies.

So when comparing brands, don’t just compare the price on the bottle. Compare what it actually costs you to use it.

Measure it. Compare it. Know your real costs.
www.beautywise.co

Now available on Amazon.

The full chemistry of the products at your nail table, written for the technician who uses them.

Every gel and acrylic you work with is built from small reactive molecules. What they are, how completely they join the chain, and how many are left free to reach skin decides how your work wears and whether you or your client ends up allergic. This book explains that chemistry from the bottle up, in plain English, with the evidence cited.

Inside:
Polymerisation, cross-linking and molecular weight, and why they matter at the desk
The four systems, ingredient by ingredient: acrylic (L&P), hard gel, soak-off builder gel and gel polish
Dehydrators, bonders and primers: what each one actually does to the nail plate
UV lamps: photoinitiators, wavelength, irradiance, and why a cure spec does not transfer between brands
Whether anything passes through the nail plate, and what has actually been measured
Why methacrylate allergy is rising, cross-reactivity, and the EU rules on HEMA and TPO

File dust, vapour and salon air: what the law requires in the UK, EU, US and Australia, with the limit values

When a client reacts: allergic or irritant, what to do, what to say
Reading a Safety Data Sheet and an ingredient list, mixing systems, storage, and troubleshooting from the chemistry
Bringing a product to market in the UK, EU and USA

Six appendices: 111 cited sources, an allergen quick table, a decision tree for choosing a system, the UV-LED specifications that matter, a lexicon for nail technicians, and nine real Safety Data Sheets read line by line.

The companion to Nail Chemistry Essentials, the one-hour edition. Written by Robert Giblett BSc.Eng and published by IKON.IQ.