[jjkaczor]

Chemicals being hair/face/skin products (sprays, gells, shaving cream, creams/moisturizers) which are commercially produced, tested and sold at retail/wholesale?

Yes, they need to be knowledgable (growth patterns/directions, skin issues that may cause complications, hair-loss aware haircuts), but 3-times the training as a police officer, really? To be a Rhode Island State Trooper, it is a "grueling" 24-week program... https://risp.ri.gov/academy/trooper

Maybe prior to the 19th-century, when barbers were also surgeons and dentists that would be a minimal amount of training - but that is no longer the case.

[mrguyorama]

>but 3-times the training as a police officer, really?

This is a crummy comparison, because the problem isn't that barbers get too much training (maybe they do) but that police officers get very little training.

[ClumsyPilot]

> which are commercially produced, tested and sold at retail/wholesale?

That doesn't mean they won't kill you -> try drinking bleach or pesticides for demostic plants, both avaliable at the nearest supermarket.

Barber chemicals can give you skin burns or render you partially bilnd. That's mostly female products though, being a men's barber is typically simpler.

that being said, most of UK has no special lisence for barbers -> just need to follow health and safety and have insurance.

https://www.gov.uk/register-a-hairdressing-business

[avereveard]

> tested and sold at retail/wholesale?

Not all of them are. Also, a company can sustain lawsuit differently and has access to better documentation to defend its products. Also, you're responsible to follow dosages when you apply them by your own, but the barber is when applying them on you.

[cardiffspaceman]

I thought the headline was, it's too easy to be a police officer.