When we had the retail shop, we used to buy black fitted face cradle covers by the 500 carton from VTI Products in Eugene, OR, at 800-713-8016. Including shipping, they came out to slightly less than 20 cents apiece. The black ones tend to be harder to find than the white ones. After a bit of Googling around, I came across this beauty supply site that sells 1,000 white covers for $136 or 13.5 cents, a significant savings. Check them out here.

The antimicrobial alcohol wipes we used were the PDI Sani-Dex cannister containing 135 wipes. They contain moisturizing aloe, glycerin and Vitamin E. You can find them on the web in multiple locations for about $7 or less (about 5 cents per wipe). We purchased them at Moore Medical.
So Using two wipes and one disposable fitted face cradle cover could cost as little as 26 cents per customer. Not a bad price for hygiene insurance.

Another useful distinction, that I didn’t make in the article, is between intuition and instinct. I find that a lot of writers, and even scientists, use the two words as synonyms. In my lexicon they are not. Instinct is hard-wired whereas intuition is learned. The sex drive is hard-wired, being a good lover is learned.

Finally, to give complete credit where credit is due, an old Chinese definition of intuition as “spontaneously recalled experience” was first shared with me by my primary teacher of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jim Cleaver. It was concise definition that helped to clarify my thinking.

Good article about the role that experience plays in developing our intuition in our business affairs. Reading your comments: “Intuition, despite what some people claim, does not come from the cosmos. It is most often the result of awareness–paying attention to the smallest shifts in the world around us–and experience, lots of experience, over many years. The more we consciously accumulate business experience, the better we become at asking the right questions when faced with a business decision, and the more likely we are to arrive at the right answer.” – I couldn’t help thinking of how Malcolm Gladwell developed that concept in his book “Blink”. It clearly explains how years of expertise can allow someone to know, in the blink of an eye, the substance of a situation or object. I recommend it.

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell