If you're still reaching for this common product to battle ear wax, it's time to try a better — and safer — method. View Entire Post › ...

People regularly use Q-tips to clean out their ears, despite the product’s packaging specifically warning against the practice. Now, a scary new study reveals why the little cotton swabs aren’t great ...

If you’ve stuck a Q-tip (or other type of cotton swab) in your ear, it’s probably crossed your mind once or twice: How far can I go? It probably crossed your mind again if you’re a fan of HBO’s ...

It says right there on the packaging: “Do not insert swab into ear canal.” Speak with an ear-nose-and-throat doctor, and you’ll hear the same thing. “We always say, ‘Never put anything smaller than ...

Dr Gaur says, “Adding oil to the tip of a cotton swab is a fundamentally flawed concept that does not reduce the primary ...

For many, incorrect Q-tip usage has become an addiction due to their convenience in what some believe “gets the job done”. And while we’ve been reminded for decades about the dangers of inserting the ...

If you are attempting to discover an ear wax remover that is safe, simple to use, efficient, and capable, you may consider Tvidler ear wax cleaner as an alternative. The stupid threat of cotton buds ...

While Q-tip buyers aren’t supposed to use them to clean their ears, one man says he used a whole box to clean his. And he did so unapologetically. In a video with over 2.3 million views, TikToker Hank ...

You know what you need to clean out your ears? Tools. And not tools like Q-tips. Real tools. Motorized, mechanized, battery-using tools. Take this Cordless ear wax cleaner, for instance. It’s only ten ...

Last night’s episode of Girls featured an excruciating scene in which Hannah, grappling with OCD, inserted a Q-Tip deep into her ear canal and “heard air hiss out the hole” she’d apparently poked in ...