Earwax is just a fact of life. We need it to protect the inner ear and lubricate the ear canal, though honestly, excess earwax can be annoying. Not only can it make it difficult to hear what's going ...

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 ...

Q-tips were originally invented in 1923 by Leo Gerstenzang, whose wife was wrapping cotton around a toothpick to clean the baby’s ears. I hear on the news that some people still use them for that.

Ever been told you’re not supposed to put cotton swabs in your ears? Well, it’s true. If you look at a box of Q-tips, it even has a warning not to insert their product into your ear canal. If their ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - For years, Cleveland’s U.S. Cotton has made most of the cotton swabs sold in the United States. You may have used them to clean your ears, or apply cosmetics. Last week, the company ...

Q-tips are one of the most perplexing things for sale in America. Plenty of consumer products are widely used in ways other than their core function-books for leveling tables, newspapers for keeping ...

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Years ago, my mother complained about a terrible earache. The pain was unbearable. And it wouldn’t go away-for a week, she walked around with a debilitating ringing in her head. Eventually, she ...