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Adjusting to specific salon clients; This firm's sink shifts to fit people who have limited mobility, for better hair days.

Publication: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
Publication Date: 16-JUN-08 		Format: Online
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Full Article Title: Adjusting to specific salon clients; This firm's sink shifts to fit people who have limited mobility, for better hair days.(BUSINESS INSIDER)(Company overview)

Article Excerpt
Byline: TODD NELSON

Special to the Star Tribune

A good salon experience can go down the drain if getting shampooed leaves you hurting or your clothes and dignity drenched.

That's a problem for some senior citizens, wheelchair -users and others whose physical limitations or stature keep them from fitting comfortably at the fixed-height shampoo bowls used by most salons.

Without a good fit, customers can suffer neck or back pain, get their clothes soaked or endure getting lifted from a wheelchair to a salon seat just to get their hair washed. Stylists also can experience aches and pains from bending and stretching while working at fixed-mount bowls.

Hoping to persuade salon clients, hairdressers and shop owners that it has the answer to such problems is a small Minneapolis company that makes what it calls the Adjust-a-Sink.

The product does just what its name says, raising or lowering the shampoo bowl by 12...

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