Ever since I was a kid, I have had long thick hair; My mom & my Mom both have thick hair too; There are lots of pictures of my Mom when he was young & he had a lot of long hair.
My long hair was never a problem until recently, but i had to contact a local plumbing company when the drain line needed to be cleaned. I had a hair stopper in the drain of the shower to keep the hair from going down the drain. I thought that it was laboring well, but it was only catching about 1/10 of the hair that was eventually going down the drain & through the plumbing line. The plumber found a lot of troubles close to the house, so they were relatively self-explanatory to fix. It took the plumber about a half an hour to disinfect out the drain line & there was a lot of hair & soap scum. I was disgusted & ashamed to see the condition of the drain line. I asked the plumber if he could recommend anything to help with the problem. He provided me the name of a couple odd items that are known to keep dirt & hair from entering the plumbing lines. It wasn’t cheap to have the drain line disinfect & cleared & 6 months later I had to contact the plumbing company again because the same problem was happening. This time the plumber looked further down the drain line & found a couple of troubles that he did not see the first time. He ended up taking 30% off the bill because the problem could have been his fault too.