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.

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

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

Edited to add suggestions and detail:

Most clogs are between the elbow and drain so something simple like the item below is more than enough to break free or pull out hair, and toothpaste, as well as anything else that might be stuck in drain or in the stopper parts. https://www.amazon.com/Grabber-Remover-Kitchen-Bathroom-Cleaning/dp/B07RMHNHYC/ref

In the case where the above is NOT enough, $30 gets you a cheap 25ft snake that is going to cover the bulk of other situations where you have a clog.
https://www.amazon.com/Plumbing-Adapter-Flexible-unblocking-Powered/dp/B0D46TQBQ9/ref

Some general basic notes: A food disposal is for the little bits that you cant scrape off into your compost or trash, ITS NOT A TRASH CAN. Please dont put stuff down the disposal that you could have removed from a plate or dish.

Fats and Grease go in the trash not down the drain. If you are pouring out your bacon grease or remaining cooking oil, or anything fatty it turns to a solid almost as soon as it hits the drain. Running hot water with it wont keep it liquid, and dish soap wont keep it emulsified. It will slowly build up in the pipes and you will get a fat burg/plug that causes a clog. Wipe fatty/greasy pans and dishes with a paper towel and throw it in the trash, for large quantities like Bacon grease you can use a can or jar that you store in the freezer until its full and then toss in the trash.

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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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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Only if your drain is made of human skin.

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.

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

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.

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