How to avoid shed hair all over the place?

[DancingQueen]

I am cleaning up my room, but there is shed hair all over the place - literally! I got a handful already, and there is still more. It is everywhere - my couch/bed, my carpet, the floor, and in places I have no idea how they got to. It is a wonder how I still have hair left on my head, lol.

How do you avoid this? Is the only solution really to either keep it up 24/7, or clean every single day?

Oh, and is there another solution to remove it than a vacuum cleaner? I share one with 13 other people, and I honestly don't feel like putting it on my couch.

Thanks in advance - feel free to share your own hairy tales. :)

[Sylvestrix]

I'm going to be no help here at all, my house is the house of hair! My mother, myself and my two cats are are massive shedders- the amount my mother and I shed, we too sometimes wonder how we have any hair left at all. As for getting hair out of the hoover, I tend to tip mine up and cut it out of the rollers with a pair of small sharp scissors- I've found that craft knives also work, but I worry about cutting myself, so scissors it is!

Edit: Misread you there, sorry! I find that for sofas and such, a lint roller, or even a hand wrapped in sellotape, is really good at grabbing up hairs. A small hand held sweeping brush with really stiff bristles is also good for getting the majority off of carpets, and if you've got hard floors then any sweeping brush should do the trick =]

[jacqueline101]

I'd sweep it up to avoid getting it caught in the vacuum.

[EdG]

I am cleaning up my room, but there is shed hair all over the place - literally! I got a handful already, and there is still more. It is everywhere - my couch/bed, my carpet, the floor, and in places I have no idea how they got to. It is a wonder how I still have hair left on my head, lol.This sounds like a typical day in the life of a longhair. :lol:


How do you avoid this? Is the only solution really to either keep it up 24/7, or clean every single day?

Oh, and is there another solution to remove it than a vacuum cleaner? I share one with 13 other people, and I honestly don't feel like putting it on my couch. I untangle my hair in one room, and then clean up the shed hairs immediately afterwards. This gets rid of most of the shed hairs.

I rake the carpets before running the vacuum cleaner. A small leaf rake works fine for removing hairs from carpets (and one's toes can also make a satisfactory rake). Any remaining shed hairs will wrap themselves around the vacuum cleaner's beater brush. Those need to be removed manually.

Hair sheds continuously, so it's hard to avoid having shed hairs all over the place. If you've ever had a long-haired dog, at least all the shed hairs won't be yours. ;)
Ed

[joflakes]

I avoid a lot all over the place by detangling over the hand basin. When the sink gets blocked I put it in the bin! Haha. Sounds a bit gross but it works for me anyway!

[lapushka]

My hair gets combed in one room (bathroom) only, so that's a huge help. Besides that, my hair's up 6 days out of 7 (except on wash day). There's barely shed hairs around. Maybe about 10 in the whole apartment. My hair's between hip & TBL.

[melusine963]

I wear my hair up or braided 24/7, and pick up and bin any stray hairs I spot immediately. I regularly check my clothes for strays too. Finally, I make sure to (usually) only ever brush my hair in one spot in one room, which makes it easy to pick up my sheds and bin them straight away before they can be dragged all over the house.

[Fantak]

^--- what melusine963 said :)

[heidi w.]

I have shed hairs in my bed and bathroom, that is it. I clean up as much as is possible, but there's still little balls of fallen hair. Part of the drill.
heidi w.

[EdG]

I now have a funny mental image of the following:


Long-haired human: (looks at dog) "They're your shed hairs too."

Long-haired canine: "You bred me to be this way!"

Long-haired human: "D'oh!" (slaps forehead) :doh:

Ed

[Sharysa]

I use my pet-hair brush, since I have a dog anyway. Works like a charm to avoid vacuum clogging.

[DancingQueen]

I'd sweep it up to avoid getting it caught in the vacuum.

I guess I could do that on the floor. Maybe a woolen sock would work on the furniture? I will have to give that a try.


This sounds like a typical day in the life of a longhair. :lol:

I untangle my hair in one room, and then clean up the shed hairs immediately afterwards. This gets rid of most of the shed hairs.

I rake the carpets before running the vacuum cleaner. A small leaf rake works fine for removing hairs from carpets (and one's toes can also make a satisfactory rake). Any remaining shed hairs will wrap themselves around the vacuum cleaner's beater brush. Those need to be removed manually.

Hair sheds continuously, so it's hard to avoid having shed hairs all over the place. If you've ever had a long-haired dog, at least all the shed hairs won't be yours. ;)
Ed

Haha, maybe I should get a pet to blame it on. :D I'm sure a dog would be perfectly fine in a 16 m2 student room, he could be the mascot of my dorm, lol.

[nobeltonya]

I'm kind of OCD about running my hands down the length [can't finger comb dry..] and generally will get 1 or 2 at a time.. otherwise, putting it in a ponytail helps me, at least in the kitchen.. my boys will play with my hair if I'm not careful.. I guess I'm kind of backward, in that at home I try to wear it up [although I keep it down some also], but when I'm out [as long as it's not SUPER windy or cold or hot] I like to wear it down.. *shrugs* :disco:

[Sarahlabyrinth]

I detangle either outside or over the sink. I then put my hair up and the hair is easily scooped out of the sink for disposal.

[PraiseCheeses]

I've found it's actually easier to corral escapees now that my hair is longer. :) To control the sheds, I detangle mostly when my hair is backlit by a bright light and the ends are above a dark background. Anything that is loosened and falls beyond my hemline practically glows in contrast, and I grab the loose hairs I see and pile them on a black cloth... there are now a few black cloths in various places around the apartment where I have a tendency to get into detangling sessions. After they've piled up, I stash them in a container in the bathroom before my boyfriend finds them and decides to ask questions that require uncomfortable answers...

Detangling outside/sweeping immediately afterwards are also great ideas!

We haven't had a problem with my shed hair in ages. The fur factories in my signature, on the other hand... it's a wonder my mini-panther has any fur left.

[spirals]

I'm kind of OCD about running my hands down the length....and generally will get 1 or 2 at a time....I guess I'm kind of backward, in that at home I try to wear it up [although I keep it down some also], but when I'm out [as long as it's not SUPER windy or cold or hot] I like to wear it down.. *shrugs* :disco:I do this at work and leave the hair there. :cheese:

[Bagginslover]

I use a hairbrush on the carpet in my bedroom. Its one of those stiff, short pile crapets, that acts like velcro to shed hairs, even the vacuum won't get them up! I have an old bobble ended brush I no longer use on myself, so I use it on the carpet before vacuuming, it works wonders!! The hard floors get swept, or sometimes I'll get down and pull all the hair togther with my fingers (happens more when I'm saving the sheds for something ;) )

[chen bao jun]

I only detangle in the bathroom (once a week in the shower actually) and wear my hair up 99% of the time, and even usually wrapped in a scarf in the house but hair is still all over the place. And my hairs not even long yet. I'm very confused by this.

[Anje]

Like some of the others, I do most of the combing/brushing/etc. in the bathroom, which keeps a lot of the shed hair confined to that room. My hair is up or braided most of the time, so the sheds don't tend to come out except when I comb.

Even so, raking the carpet with my toes tends to bring up some prodigious wads of hair, and I know the vacuum is in need of a haircut. Some of this is just part of life. :shrug:

[spidermom]

You can contain it by doing all your combing and styling in one or two places and wear your hair up between times.

[KwaveT]

There is anything I learn is that your hair is going to get all over the place regardless of how well you keep it cleaned up. I pulled my comforter back from my satin sheets one day and notice hair on virtually every square inch of the comforter. I am still trying to figure out how hair got on underside of that comforter even on totally opposite end of bed that I sleep. I guess it migrates. I can turn my shirts inside out and keep getting more hairs that are hiding in addition to those on outside of the shirt. I know that hair is on my carpet. My floor has not been vacuumed in about two or three years since always has so much junk on it that I can't get to it to vacuum. I know I need to clean my room up.

[anitacs9101]

I've been getting this too and I never had a problem before. I've been shedding soooo much haha! Plus my hair is red now so EVERYONE knows it's me. There are hairs all over the tub and the sink and the rug and everywhere!! Yesterday I was detangling and I had a baseball sized wad of shed hair haha