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How human hair can soak up oil

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Your unwashed head is functionally identical to an industrial spill-cleanup sponge. Human hair is notoriously hydrophobic but desperately clings to any grease or oil it encounters. Environmentalists actually collect discarded salon clippings to soak up massive oceanic crude spills.

How human hair can soak up oil
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