<p>I can not be the only person dealing with this, so I hope someone has a brilliant suggestion. Once we turn our home heat on in the winter, I have trouble with static electricity; not just in my home, but me personally. My hair is flyway and sticks to my neck; if I try to brush it, you can hear the static and my hair gets worse. The blanket on the bed can light up a room when you separate it from the sheet. My nightgown sticks to me, which causes anything I touch to transmit static. While other family members get the usually static when walking across the carpet and touching a light switch, no one else seems to have a body and hair that attracts the static. </p>
<p>For my hair I have tried anti static brushes, dryer sheets rubbed on the hair, Keratin treatments, and hairsprays; nothing works for my hair so I just deal with this the entire winter and know my hair will just look like crap!! I have tried to avoid wearing wool tops and coats that helps a tiny bit, but not enough to eliminate wool from my wardrobe. My hairdresser notices the static, but has no other suggestions.</p>
<p>it sounds like you need some water in your air. I have the same issue at my house. It’s a lot better since I got rid of my carpet and went with hardwood floors. I’d sit on my couch and look like i just stuck my finger in a socket with my hair standing up in every direction!! </p>
<p>first, you can try running a humidifier like allyphoe said. if this doesn’t work and if you have radiators, they make a little tray that can hang on the side, You fill it with water and as the radiator gets hot this will go into the air when you run your heat. They make tray’s that sit on top of your radiators too. This is a nice option because it doesn’t cost you any more in electricity and you can put one on each radiator.</p>
<p>In the winter, I use more leave-in hair products to combat the static. For example, I use Healthy Hair Butter by Carol’s Daughter. I use it year-round, but in the winter I might re-apply it during the day. If I don’t have it nearby, I’ll put moisturizer on my hands and then pat it through my hair.</p>
<p>I have the static issue at my office more than at home.</p>
<p>What I want to know is what you do about the static electricity zap when you try to get out of your car in the winter. Slide across the seat and then ZAP when you try to close the door.</p>
<p>We live in a fairly humid place but in the winter I get constantly zapped by the grocery carts in certain stores. I thought I was just imagining things then I googled the problem and saw that it is fairly common. I don’t have any solutions but I do sympathize.</p>
<p>I have the same problem with my hair - use StaticGuard sprayed on hair brush then wave hairbrush to make sure it is dry and then brush - no more flyaway hair the rest of the day.</p>
<p>When we used to own a house, we had centralized humidifier. We never had any static in our house and we could also breath better. Many people commented on that whenever they stayed over. Try using humidifier around your home.</p>
<p>For hair, I use a lot more “product” in the winter, and that helps. More conditioner, more leave-in stuff, and try not to touch hair or brush it much once it is dry.</p>
<p>For the shocks, I don’t know! I have this problem a lot with the car. Inside, I think touching things more often can give you smaller shocks instead of building up as big a charge.</p>
<p>What do people do about the clothes clinging to you? I hate feeling comfortable in my outfit, especially a dress, at home, and then later on, in an office building, having it cling, ride up my legs, tangle up in static…</p>
<p>Interestingly I’d forgotten about the grocery store problem. I switched to the more expensive, but nicer and nearer to me store and don’t have static issues there. Here’s how nice they are - they offered to store people’s perishables in their refrigerators/freezers.</p>
<p>Three tricks I found. First is to carry a bounce pad with you. It actually helped. Second, is when you’re getting out of the car hold onto the frame of the car. That way, any static generated is instantly transmitted into the car. If you forget to do that, you can grip a key (or something else metal) firmly and touch that to something else metal. The shock will then be between your key and the frame instead of your finger and the frame.</p>
<p>Three tricks I found. First is to carry a bounce pad with you. It actually helped. Second, is when you’re getting out of the car hold onto the frame of the car. That way, any static generated is instantly transmitted into the car. If you forget to do that, you can grip a key (or something else metal) firmly and touch that to something else metal. The shock will then be between your key and the frame instead of your finger and the frame.</p>
Check the materials in your socks, nightgown, and blankets - most manufactured materials will hold a big charge, and switching to cotton and linen will help a lot. There was a case in Australia (I think) of a guy who was wearing a ton of nylon and polyester and built up enough of a charge (~50kV) that he set the carpet on fire.</p>
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Ditto to whoever said hold onto the frame of the car.</p>
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The combination of the flooring material and the cart actually acts as a generator in some cases. If you pay close attention, you will get a shock every X revolutions of the wheels, or whenever you touch a grounded conductor (like the handle of the refrigerators). Unfortunately, there is no real solution to this - the charge is going to build up no matter what you do, and if it is not discharging semi-regularly then it is just going to give a bigger pop whenever you finally do accidentally brush it.</p>
<p>The only real solution is to never lose your connection to some sort of ground. Don’t let go of the metal on the shopping cart. If you do, don’t walk too far or roll the cart anywhere. </p>
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