As stupid as it says on the tin. Can you remove hair clogs with Nair?
EDIT: I don’t actually have a drain that needs to be unclogged. This is a showerthoughtquestion.
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 in lieu of charging me the full fee and getting nothing, 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.
I made myself a 3-D printed drain cover
https://github.com/profdc9/FreeCADParametricModels/tree/main/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.
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
Make sure to get it from the hardware store, not the pet store.
Instructions unclear
How do I get the smell of reptile blood out of my drain?
“In other news, a rash of copperhead bites has sprung up around town, after residents attempted to shove the snakes down their drain pipes to release a clog.
Local herpetologists say this is not a smart approach & should not be attempted.
Local residents responded by asking that their beer be held.”
“I’m tired of these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking drain!” ~Samuel L. Jackson plumber
If you really can’t fish it out, just use some drain cleaner. The dry crystal kind works very well and it’s inexpensive.
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.
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
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.
You’re correct.
The hair won’t dissolve.
Couldn’t you just use an acid to dissolve the hair as well as the other shit that makes up a drain clog?
Yup, although boiling water works like a charm just about every time.
Usually what I use for a clog.
Advice: Don’t use boiling water for toilets. It’ll melt the wax seal at the base…
I appreciate the advice, but the overwhelming success of that method speaks volumes.
That’s not just advice, that’s coming from experience. My dad did that for a while in the winter, to warm his toilet up. Yeah, after a couple months, the base of the toilet started leaking.
I mean hey, you do you, but wax seals melt when exposed to hot water…
You offered it as advice.
I’ll do me.
That is what stuff like draino does.
your typical household drain cleaner is basic rather than acidic. acid will attack metal pipes, so if you don’t know what’s going on downstairs, I would stick with lye. and acid isn’t good for septic systems
Acids don’t work as well on the substances that contribute to typical household drain clogs compared to bases, which is what Drano is.
When it enters your drain pipes, the sodium hydroxide reacts with fatty acids and proteins from your typical clogging culprits like oils, grease, soap scum, hair, and food particles.
This reaction generates heat, breaks large molecules into smaller ones, and liquefies solid gunk. The extremely high pH enables the sodium hydroxide to saponify fatsand dissolve organic matterthrough chemical decomposition.
Acids simply wouldn‘t have the same cleansing effects on drain clogs. Grease and oils are composed of tough-to-break-down fatty acid chains that resist acidic breakdown.
Quoted from here.
Nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
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
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
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.
Only if your drain is made of human skin.
Nair does not disintegrate skin. It disintegrates hair.
Nobody said it disintegrates skin
I have a little snake tool with hooks on it you just shove down the drain and pull all the hair out.
What if I dont really want the hair back?
Then pour nair down the drain
throw it in the bin?
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.
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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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.
