If you had a drain that you knew was clogged only with hair, could you unclog the drain only using Nair?

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• over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Disclaimer: I’ve never used Nair before.

  But if I’m not mistaken, I think the main thing Nair does is basically cause the hair follicles to break loose at the skin/scalp level. I don’t think the stuff outright dissolves the hair.

  But hey, if I’m wrong, by all means someone correct me.

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  • Varyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You’re correct.

    The hair won’t dissolve.

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    • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Couldn’t you just use an acid to dissolve the hair as well as the other shit that makes up a drain clog?

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• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  EDIT: I don’t actually have a drain that needs to be unclogged. This is a showerthoughtquestion.

  Guys…he TOTALLY has a toilet clogged with ass hair.

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  • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • variants@possumpat.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Reminds me of this story I read on reddit I believe about some dude that jizzed and puked in a sync and it got clogged and it festered for days until his mom had a plumber come out and he found the mess

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• Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nair doesn’t destroy hair, it just makes it fall out of your body. It wouldn’t help a clogged drain.

  Source: Have clogged the drain with my ass hair a couple times.

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  • Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I have a… uh… never mind. I don’t think I want to know.

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    • MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ignorance is bliss, my friend.

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    • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The real don’t ask, don’t tell.

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  • lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How did you clog it with your ass hair? Waxing? Or did it just happen naturally?

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    • Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nair.

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• agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t actually have a drain that needs to be unclogged. This is a showerthoughtquestion.

  Unclogging hair from a drain is the single most relevant practical showerthought

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• naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Lots of people are wrong. The stuff in Nair attacks sulfur bridges in keratine. This makes it physically fragile so you can scrape it off.

  It doesn’t dissolve the keratin though.

  In theory you could break it into lots of small pieces by say pointing a water jet down the drain (or plunging or whatever) after treatment. Whether this is enough to loosen it will have a lot to do with other stuff in the drain/geometry/penetration depth. It may just make a gel that plugs the drain.

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• infinitevalence@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Mechanical cleaning is the only reliable way to clean a drain, period.

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  • hddsx@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Look at you cleaning your drains, I just burned down my house and bought a new one - hair free

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  • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But that’s expensive, and I’m lazy. So what’s the next best way

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    • Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Depends on how far it is. I got a relatively nice 20something dollar drain snake at home depot that was like 15 ft long. Took me like 5 minutes and getting a bit wet cause it was the bath. But yea I get the laziness.

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    • infinitevalence@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      its like $5-30 DIY. Or $100+ if you hire someone to clean it.

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    • ShepherdPie@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I use a plunger on the sink and shower drains (an actual sink plunger that’s separate from the toilet plunger) to get the water flowing and then I just clean out the hair caught around the drain opening. The only trick to this is to block off the vent/overflow pipes as leaving them open makes it so the plunger doesn’t work.

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  • pelletbucket@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve never had to go beyond solid lye

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• AmidFuror@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  cloggedshowerthoughts

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• Smeagol666@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  At my apartments they have it in the lease that we are not allowed to use Drano, becase our pipes are pvc. I use a coathanger that I’ve put a little hook on with pliers. My gf has long hair, and sheds like a goddam collie.

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  • Krudler@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Protip… Long zip tie and cut teeth into the edges with little snips.

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    • Glitterbomb@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They actually make things just like this for this specific purpose. Amazon has a 7 pack for $5, and Ive got them from Home Depot too. Looks like theyre calling them a “Hair Drain Cleaner Tool”

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  • ShepherdPie@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Don’t ever use Drano and then call a plumber either (or at least tell them if you did) because it barely works and instead just sits in the pipe which then gets all over their skin and clothes as they try to remove the clog the proper way.

    A youtuber I watch who cleans drains had this happen and he showed what his pants looked like the next day. They were essentially shredded all down the front from kneeling in acid water.

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  • morbidcactus@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s drain guards you can get that work pretty well, I got tired of cleaning out hair from the shower drain.

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• trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If it had only active ingredients it might work, but I think with the added oil and skincare ingredients it will make the clog worse.

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• PorradaVFR@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The plastic drain cleaners at home improvement stores with the Velcro tips work really well. They’re like 2’ long but in my experience cleaning the wife and kids long hair out of the bath drain has show that to be plenty.

  The added fact that I have basically no hair on my head also makes be a tad bitter about always being the “handyman” guy of our family. :p

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• LordCrom@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Go buy a snake from a hardware store. Spend the extra 10 and get one that has a drill attachment. I’ve used mine 4 or 5 times to clear out clogs… Saves so much money on a pro plumber

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  • Kaput@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Make sure to get it from the hardware store, not the pet store.

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    • tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Instructions unclear

      How do I get the smell of reptile blood out of my drain?

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    • ShepherdPie@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “I’m tired of these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking drain!” ~Samuel L. Jackson plumber

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have a little snake tool with hooks on it you just shove down the drain and pull all the hair out.

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  • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What if I dont really want the hair back?

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    • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Then pour nair down the drain

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    • FiskFisk33@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      throw it in the bin?

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They sell these plastic ones at the grocery store where you just shove em down the drain and pull em right back down, all barbed and shit along the length of the snake thingy, and then it comes out looking like you snagged a R.O.U.S. and you realize you forgot to put on your nitrile gloves and fuck it just huck it in the can but they’re a buck ninety nine the last I checked. Last time might have gotten a little hairy.

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• retrospectology@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not sure about Nair in drains, but if it’s a bathtub drain many of them have a sort of catch where all you need to do is unscrew the cover thats over the drain hole and pull the assembley out, if it’s the kind I’m talking about it’ll have kind of a long screw thing with a bunch of hair and junk wrapped around it.

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• z00s@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Only if your drain is made of human skin.

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  • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nair does not disintegrate skin. It disintegrates hair.

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    • z00s@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nobody said it disintegrates skin

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• Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you wanted to unclog a hair clogged drain, you’d be better off using (harsh chemicals) draino o some kind of biological/bacterial cleaner. I had a clogged drain early in the year (not organic, toddler related), and the plumber sold me some kinda bio-clean stuff, and it works wonders to destroy hair and other biologic stuff when I leave it in drains overnight. I use it once a month or so and it fixes my slow drains in one shot.

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• fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nair, a chemical hair remover, works by breaking down the protein bonds that hold hair together beneath the skin’s surface.

  If mr AI Overview is to be trusted, then it won’t work.

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• profdc9@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I made myself a 3-D printed drain cover

  github.com/profdc9/…/Sink-Drain

  And it traps the hair and I don’t have problems with clogging. It’s a parametric part so it can be adjusted for most drain sizes.

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• xmunk@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.

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• PlasticExistence@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you really can’t fish it out, just use some drain cleaner. The dry crystal kind works very well and it’s inexpensive.

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