Using cotton swabs is not a safe or effective method for cleaning your ears. You may have been taught to clean your ears with a Q-tip or cotton swab -- and even enjoy how satisfying it can be -- but Q ...

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What not to do: stick a Q-tip in there. If you go in too deep, it can puncture the eardrum. Cotton swabs are meant to stay out of your ear canal. For most people, cleaning isn’t required. Cleaning ...

You've probably used cotton swabs to clean your ears. Here's why ENTs say you shouldn't. (Getty Images) "Don’t put anything smaller than your elbow in your ear." It's the kind of thing you may have ...

Cotton swabs “really weren’t made to clean your ears — all they do is just push the wax deeper down into your ear canal and this causes an impaction,” Dr. Tonia L. Farmer, who goes by Dr. Nose Best, ...

This is the way to be ear-responsible. A UK doctor is sharing sound advice about how we should be cleaning our ears. “How should you keep your ears clean? You don’t,” the 31-year-old general ...

COTTON buds made from plastic were banned in England on October 1. Here's how to clean your ears without cotton buds. In a bid to tackle single-use plastic, cotton buds, coffee stirrers and plastic ...

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Throw out your cotton buds and embrace a life free of earwax covered sticks, as your favourite ear-cleaning pals have been banned to cut plastic pollution. If you hadn’t noticed, cotton buds are made ...