Louisiana home and mobile salon rules

Can you run a salon from your home in Louisiana?

Yes, with conditions. A salon in your home is allowed in Louisiana only as a separate room, separated from the living quarters by walls or other permanent structures, with separate outside entrances. Below: what a home salon needs, mobile salons (allowed) and house calls (allowed), each answered from Louisiana's own statutes, rules or board pages, read on October 31, 2026, with the state's own words.

Salon in your home
Allowed
Mobile salon
Allowed
House calls
Allowed
Mobile salon license
$55

Licensed by the Louisiana State Board of Cosmetology.The board's site Salon license feesThe state's own words

Home salons

Can you have a salon in your home in Louisiana?

Yes, with conditions. A salon in your home is allowed in Louisiana only as a separate room, separated from the living quarters by walls or other permanent structures, with separate outside entrances.

Salon in your home
Allowed
License it needs
Not stated

What a home salon needs

  • A separate room is provided for the salon

    “No salon shall be established or maintained in a home or in connection with a business where food is handled unless a separate room is provided therefore.” doa.la.gov

  • The salon is separated from the living quarters by walls or other permanent structures

    “Any salon in a home or in connection with a place where food is handled shall be separated from the living quarters or place where food is handled by walls or other permanent structures.” doa.la.gov

  • Separate outside entrances lead to the salon and to the living quarters

    “There shall be separate outside entrances leading to the salon and to the living quarters or any place where food is handled.” doa.la.gov

Louisiana is one of 47 states whose official pages allow a salon in your home.

Mobile salons

Do you need a mobile salon license in Louisiana?

Yes: mobile salons are allowed, with a license. A mobile salon is licensed through the board and may operate only while parked, at locations where the owner has the property owner's permission, on a monthly itinerary filed with the board, with its own restroom and water storage.

Mobile salon
Allowed
License it needs
Mobile salon certificate of registration
State fee
$55

What a mobile salon needs

  • Operate only while parked, and only at locations where the owner has the property owner's prior permission and zoning compliance

    “Mobile salons shall operate only when the facility is parked and only at locations where the salon owner has obtained prior permission of the property owner and complies with all zoning restrictions.” doa.la.gov

  • File a written monthly itinerary with the board by the first of each month

    “prior to the first of each month, each mobile salon license holder shall file with the board a written itinerary on the form required by the board for the month listing the dates, hours and location” doa.la.gov

  • Salon name in letters at least 5 inches high, visible on at least two exterior sides

    “the salon name, as it appears on the salon license, shall be in lettering at least 5 inches in height and shall be visibly displayed and clearly legible on at least two exterior sides of the mobile salon” doa.la.gov

  • A functional self-contained flush chemical toilet and lavatory with hot and cold water

    “Each mobile salon shall be equipped with a functional restroom which includes a self-contained, flush chemical toilet with a holding tank and lavatory facilities with hot and cold running water.” doa.la.gov

  • Clean water storage of at least 100 gallons or 35 gallons per cosmetologist, with waste storage at least as large

    “Each mobile salon shall have storage capacity for the greater of 100 gallons or 35 gallons of clean water for each cosmetologist working in the mobile salon” doa.la.gov

  • A business address in Louisiana (no post office box or private mailbox) for records and board mail

    “each mobile salon owner shall maintain a business address in Louisiana where the mobile salon and records of appointments” doa.la.gov

Louisiana is one of 39 states whose official pages allow a mobile salon.

House calls

Can you do services at a client's home in Louisiana?

Yes, on conditions. Licensed makeup work may leave a salon only at listed sites, such as a homebound client, a hospital, a funeral home, or a TV, film or photo shoot; weddings and private events are not on the list.

The rule and Louisiana's own words, on the makeup artist page for Louisiana.

Good to know

What else Louisiana asks

  • A new salon's premises must be inspected by the board's inspector before a salon license is issued.

Sources

What Louisiana's official pages say

Each answer above, in the words of Louisiana's own statutes, rules or board pages, read on October 31, 2026. Your city or county may add its own rules for a home business: confirm with the Louisiana State Board of Cosmetology and your local zoning office before you open.

Home salons
“No salon shall be established or maintained in a home or in connection with a business where food is handled unless a separate room is provided therefore.”
doa.la.gov
“Any salon in a home or in connection with a place where food is handled shall be separated from the living quarters or place where food is handled by walls or other permanent structures.”
doa.la.gov
“There shall be separate outside entrances leading to the salon and to the living quarters or any place where food is handled.”
doa.la.gov
Mobile salons
“The operation of mobile cosmetology salons shall meet and at all times remain in compliance with all federal, state and local laws and ordinances regulating mobile businesses”
doa.la.gov
“Every beauty shop owner, mobile salon owner, booth renter, manager of a beauty shop, and school shall, on or before January thirty-first of each calendar year, renew his or its certificate of registration.”
legis.la.gov
“(b) Beauty shop or salon, mobile salon, or home care$55.00”
legis.la.gov
“Mobile salons shall operate only when the facility is parked and only at locations where the salon owner has obtained prior permission of the property owner and complies with all zoning restrictions.”
doa.la.gov
“prior to the first of each month, each mobile salon license holder shall file with the board a written itinerary on the form required by the board for the month listing the dates, hours and location”
doa.la.gov
“the salon name, as it appears on the salon license, shall be in lettering at least 5 inches in height and shall be visibly displayed and clearly legible on at least two exterior sides of the mobile salon”
doa.la.gov
“Each mobile salon shall be equipped with a functional restroom which includes a self-contained, flush chemical toilet with a holding tank and lavatory facilities with hot and cold running water.”
doa.la.gov
“Each mobile salon shall have storage capacity for the greater of 100 gallons or 35 gallons of clean water for each cosmetologist working in the mobile salon”
doa.la.gov
“each mobile salon owner shall maintain a business address in Louisiana where the mobile salon and records of appointments”
doa.la.gov
Also good to know
“Your inspector must come out to the new salon and inspect the premises before you are issued a salon license.”
lsbc.louisiana.gov

Questions

Louisiana home and mobile salons, answered

Can you have a salon in your home in Louisiana?
Yes, with conditions. A salon in your home is allowed in Louisiana only as a separate room, separated from the living quarters by walls or other permanent structures, with separate outside entrances.
What are the home salon requirements in Louisiana?
Louisiana's official pages set these: a separate room is provided for the salon; the salon is separated from the living quarters by walls or other permanent structures; separate outside entrances lead to the salon and to the living quarters.
Do you need a mobile salon license in Louisiana?
Yes: mobile salons are allowed, with a license. A mobile salon is licensed through the board and may operate only while parked, at locations where the owner has the property owner's permission, on a monthly itinerary filed with the board, with its own restroom and water storage.
Can you do house calls in Louisiana?
Yes, on conditions. Licensed makeup work may leave a salon only at listed sites, such as a homebound client, a hospital, a funeral home, or a TV, film or photo shoot; weddings and private events are not on the list.
What else do you need to open a salon in Louisiana?
A license for your own work and, in most states, a license for the salon as a business. See what Louisiana requires to open a salon, with its fees and inspection rules.

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