How we got addicted to using cotton buds the wrong way
No, you shouldn't be putting cotton buds inside your ears.
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No, you shouldn't be putting cotton buds inside your ears.
Unfortunately, we use Q-tips for the very thing it specifically warns us not to do. Every Q-tips box has a warning label: \
The origins of this strange consumer phenomenon can be traced to Leo Gerstenzang, an immigrant from Poland and the inventor of the "Baby Gays" we now know as Q-tips.
(CNN) — Every Q-tips box has a warning label: “Do not insert swab into ear canal,” and if you’re going to use it to clean your ears, gently swab the outer part only. But extracting wax from our ear canals is precisely why most of us buy Q-tips in the first place. The humble Q-tip […]
Every Q-tips box has a warning label: “Do not insert swab into ear canal,” and if you’re going to use it to clean your ears, gently swab the outer part only.