10 Best Shower Drain Hair Catchers in 2024 – Reviews & Top Picks

When your shower or tub drain is repeatedly clogging up, loose hair collecting in the drainpipe is the most likely culprit. It’s something that many people experience and it can be quite frustrating. As the shower fills up and the drain works slower and slower, you may be looking for a solution.

Luckily, shower drain hair catchers are an inexpensive way of preventing that loose hair from making it into your plumbing. We’ve tried many of these products to see which ones were most effective, and compiled what we learned in the following reviews.

These are some of the best on the market, but only the first three have earned our recommendations.

A Quick Comparison of Our Favorites

Rating	Image	Product	Details
Best Overall		TubShroom	Fits inside the drain Catches every hair Doesn’t impede water drainage	CHECK PRICE
Best Value		Danco	Very cheap Easily replaced Catches most debris	CHECK PRICE
Premium Choice		Tubbrella	Won’t float up during a bath Can use on any type of drain Easy to clean	CHECK PRICE
		LEKEYE	Silicone edge keeps it in place Affordably priced Doesn’t look tacky or obvious	CHECK PRICE
		Umbra Flex	Doubles as a drain stop Very cheap price	CHECK PRICE

The 10 Best Shower Drain Hair Catchers – Reviews 2024

1. TubShroom TSGRA454 Drain Protector Hair Catcher – Best Overall

As a unique and effective solution to shower drains filling with loose hair, the TubShroom Drain Protector Hair Catcher was our favorite of all the similar products we tested. This one sits inside the drain and catches every hair that attempts to pass through. It was the most effective hair remover we found, and it didn’t even stick up in the shower. Even better, the TubShroom doesn’t impede water drainage, so we never had the shower fill up with standing water during use.

On the downside, the hair that gets caught becomes quite tangled in the web of holes on the TubShroom. This makes it pretty difficult to remove all of the hair from it, but that is our biggest complaint with the product. Overall, we think it’s the best overall product for stopping hair from getting into your shower drain, which is why it’s sitting at the top of our list.

2. Danco 10739 Hair Catcher – Best Value

The Danco Hair Catcher is a dirt-cheap way to keep hair from getting down your shower drain. This is an excellent option for those who hate cleaning hair from their hair catcher every few days. With the Danco, you can get spare strainer cups that you can use to replace the current one. That way, you never have to clean out any hair, just replace the strainer cup, and you’re good to go.

The only downside to this product that we could find is that it doesn’t fit bathtub drains. This one is meant exclusively for shower drains. Despite being so cheap, the strainer top on the Danco looks good and won’t draw attention or ruin the look of your shower. It also catches more than just hair, managing to snag most debris before it makes it into your pipes to clog up your plumbing. We think the Danco is the best shower drain hair catcher for the money, which is why it’s earned our recommendation for the best value.

3. Tubbrella Drain Hair Catcher – Premium Choice

With a universal design that is sure to fit almost all tub and shower drains, the Tubbrella Drain Hair Catcher is an effective device that costs a bit more than some of its closest competitors. We think it’s worth the extra cost, so we’ve given it our premium choice recommendation based on its superb performance. It’s weighted so that it won’t float. Even when you fill the tub to take a bath, the Tubbrella will stay put and ensure that when you drain the water, none of your hair will make it into the drainpipe.

This hair catcher takes up a little bit of your shower space since it sticks above the drain. However, that also makes it very easy to clean since you only have to pick it up and pull off the hair. It’s also effortless to install since all you do is place it over the drain, and its weight keeps it in place. We recommend this hair catcher for any type of drain, as long as you don’t mind paying a few extra bucks for the excellent performance.

4. LEKEYE LE8801 Shower Drain Hair Catcher

The LEKEYE shower drain hair catcher is a decent product that just didn’t catch as much hair as our top three contenders. It is affordable, but it’s not the cheapest product we tested. The stainless-steel construction is attractive, and it doesn’t call any attention to itself when it’s on your drain. It will only work with shower-style drains unless you remove the pop-up from your tub-style drain.

Surrounding the stainless-steel grille is a silicone ring that prevents the strainer from moving. In our testing, it did stay still for the most part. It also collected a good portion of the loose hair that was trying to get into the drain, but not all of it. The biggest problem was that once it had accumulated a bit of loose hair in the grille, it started to have a noticeable effect on the shower’s drainage. We prefer the products we tested that didn’t cause any water to accumulate, which is why the LEKEYE didn’t quite make it to the top of our list.

5. Umbra 023464-918 Flex Drain Hair Catcher

Though it’s one of the most affordable hair catchers we got our hands on, the Umbra Flex Drain Hair Catcher had several glaring flaws that kept it from earning a recommendation from us. It doubles as a drain stop, so theoretically, it should be great for tubs. Unfortunately, because of the design, it won’t allow a tub to drain fully, forcing the last inch of water to sit and stagnate.

It does catch a good portion of the loose hair, but not all of it. We still had issues with drains clogging, even when using this device. The hair that it did catch was very difficult to remove once it got tangled around the little openings. In the end, even as cheap as the Umbra is priced, we don’t think it’s a great value, and we’d suggest going with something like the Danco Hair Catcher, which earned our pick for the best value.

6. OXO 13140900 Silicone Drain Protector

The OXO Silicone Drain Protector is a dome-style strainer that can fit over most drains, including pop-up style drains. It’s weighted to stay in place over the drain, even if you fill the tub. This would make it a great product if it were more effective at removing hair. In our experience, it only removed a small amount of the hair and allowed the rest to pass through the holes.

Some of the hair even managed to pass underneath the drain protector since it didn’t fully seal around the drain. Unfortunately, the holes filled quickly with dirt and gunk, so this strainer requires constant cleaning, even though it’s not full of hair. It’s not expensive, but the OXO costs more than competing products that performed better overall, such as the Danco Hair Catcher that earned our recommendation for the best value.

7. SlipX Solutions 30756-1 Drain Hair Catcher

The SlipX Solutions Drain Hair Catcher is a good concept that just doesn’t perform as well as we hoped. It’s affordable, especially considering that you get two to a pack. The plastic design lets you pop the top up to fit over raised drains, but it doesn’t get high enough to fit over the standard pop-up style drains found in many tubs.

Suction cups around the bottom of the strainer are intended to hold it in place, but they didn’t seem to work. Because of the shape of this hair catcher, it doesn’t seal around the drain. This means that hair can slip beneath it and get into the drain. Ultimately, it’s not a very effective product, and we can’t recommend it to our readers, even if it is very affordable.

8. GOOD LIVING SYNCHKG047780 Self-Sealing Hair Catcher

The Self-Sealing Hair Catcher from GOOD LIVING is one of the cheapest hair catchers we tested for this list. Despite the low price, we hoped it would perform well, but it had too many flaws holding it back. On the plus side, it fits over most types of drains. Its performance was very lackluster, even when it fits perfectly. While the water is shallow, it prevents it from draining.

Then, once the water rises, the hair catcher will float in the water, allowing all the hair to pass right underneath. This means it didn’t catch very much hair at all, as it kept repeating this cycle and allowing the hair to pass beneath and go straight into the drainpipe. It’s cheap, but it’s not worth the purchase in our eyes.

9. Excelity 8541786869 Drain Protector Hair Catcher

As another cheap and ineffective hair catcher, the Excelity Drain Protector is made from 100% silicone and fits over most drains. It’s too light and floats in water, allowing hair to pass beneath without problems. Hair that comes in contact with the hair catcher often passes right through the holes that seem too large for straight hair.

This hair catcher collected a noticeable amount of hair for our testers with curly and long hair, but shorter and straighter hair wasn’t blocked with this device. The hair it catches is easily removed and doesn’t get tangled in the holes as we experienced with other models. However, ours began to mildew rather quickly, so you’ll be doing a lot of cleaning with this drain protector.

10. Evriholder HS3-AMZ Hairstopper

The Evriholder Hairstopper stopped the hair from getting into the drain, but it also stopped the water from draining. It’s a bit more expensive than similar competitors that allowed the water to drain and still managed to remove some of the hair. With the Evriholder, we had difficulty getting the hair out of the strainer.

It always managed to get tangled in the holes and was more challenging to remove than it was worth. None of us enjoy the feeling of a shower that’s accumulating standing water, but with this hair stopper, we experienced it with every shower. We’d recommend staying away from this one and choosing a strainer that still allows your shower water to drain.

In Conclusion

To be worth purchasing, a shower drain hair catcher must collect all the hair and prevent it from getting down the drain while still allowing the water to pass through. We’ve tried as many of these hair catchers as we could find, and our reviews compared ten of the best. While most worked to some degree, only three were good enough performers to earn our recommendations. The TubShroom Drain Protector is an excellent product that is our top pick overall. It fits inside the drain so it doesn’t stick up into the shower area, but it catches every hair while still allowing the water to drain normally. Despite the excellent performance, it was still reasonably priced.

For the best value, it’s hard to beat the low-maintenance Danco Hair Catcher. Instead of cleaning it out, you can replace the inexpensive hair baskets and avoid removing nasty old hair. The Tubbrella Drain Hair Catcher was our premium choice option, and it can be used with tub and shower drains. It won’t float during a bath, it catches all of the hair, and it’s easy to collect and remove.