yes! I do it all the time! i have oil stains everywhere! i usually use my child's hair! Children's hair works better because it's thinner!
Yes, it does absorb oil but not as well as a sponge or hair. If you need to absorb oil with cotton balls you will need to get lots and lots of them.
They are doing the best they can (or so I'm told...). They are collecting donated hair to soak up the oil. Hope it works.
There are many things that are used to soak up oil that has been spilled. At times, sawdust is used to soak up the oil. Sometimes, a special solid similar to concrete will be used.
yes
yes
Oil petty much soaks up oil the best
yes. i did an experiment on it and sponges soak up oil pretty well.
the napkin will probably soak up more mainly because of its size
it has Damascus which will soak up substances.
The US Coast Guard has used several tactics to clean the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. One of them involves using containment buoys to trap the oil from spreading. Another way they have tried to clean it up is using ultra absorbent hair-like ropes that soak up the oil.
just soak your hair in it