Can A Household Chemical Dissolve Hair?

This is from an Elementary School Science project my daughter did a few years ago. We had been looking online for something around the house to dissolve the hair in the shower drain and decided to do an experiment based on that question.

[sickb]

I use the cheap thick no splash bleach (usually about a half gallon) on a slow drain. After it has soaked for about an hour, I boil water in a large pan and pour it down the drain, repeating 3 or 4 times. Doing this as a maintenance procedure every couple of months will keep your drains flowing nicely.

[Chrisprusse]

Vinegar alone would have worked better. By mixing the vinegar with the sodium bicarbonate they react with each other and you lose almost all the acidity from the vinegar. It's basically making neither do anything.

[jimjoce]

This really works! I have tested personally and confirmed. Thanks Dusty Stewart!.

[RavenVargas]

The Benny Hill music lol. I knew the bleach would win cool vid thanks

[kp]

This video helped a lot... I tried with several dissolvers but had no luck. After I watched this, I poured clorox, and was able to hear a water flushed very well. Thank you for uploading this video!

[markmcgill]

Bad ass presentation / music . Works ! Many Thanxxxx !

[Sky-jqxs]

And people actually bleach their hair and skin🙈

[cazdelia]

ordinary household bleach really works, the affect is amasing

[oldorange]

Interesting. Draino is basically expensive bleach... Sodium Hypochlorite. Would be interesting to see what ratios of concentration of clorox & water still produce results. A clogged drain with standing water will dilute the clorox. A clogged drain with no standing water may not allow the bleach to make sufficient contact to dissolve it all.

[employempathy.]

I am a hair dresser and have been looking for a way to dissolve the hair splinters in my clothing. This will do wonders for my leggings!

[NGC]

i think you made this in window movie maker right?

[AJ]

Love the video. Simple, easy to follow and informative!

[s]

Worth upvoting just for the Benny Hill music.

[Birthing_Bovines]

Remember, the ocean will eventually dissolve the titanic. Soooo.

[SA-xtgd]

I used clorox for a slow drain issue, worked like a charm

[oric]

+Dusty Stewart, hey thanks pal. After watching your video, I poured some Clorox into my sink and it really works after 30 mins :)

[albertnoga]

We tried clorox powder. It didn't work...

[GO-mgft]

Nice, but hair in drains are mixed with water, wet surroundings, so water is missing here to see real reactions!

[firstlast]

It doesn't make any sense to mix the baking soda with the vinegar. The vinegar will remove the base part of the baking soda, making it useless.
Try the baking soda alone, mixed with water, with the hair, and see if that dissolves it.
Hair is acidic, baking soda is basic, they should cancel each other out.
So try this again with just baking soda, water, and the hair, and let us know what happens.

[ann]

So why can't put the bleach in a deep basin wide enough for my brushes. If I soak the brushes in the solution do you think it will work. May years ago there was a product on the market, all you had to do was put you hair brushes in a basin, pour in the solution and the hair dissolved from the brush. The brushes were never harmed. Maybe there was some chemicals in the product what were harmful. So what do you think ? I would like to try leaning my brushes with the Clorox. There would be less of a mess.