If you thought cotton buds were supposed to be used to clean your ears, think again. Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent. Notifications can be managed in browser preferences.

Do you use cotton buds to clean the inside of your ears? This is why it's a really bad idea It might feel like you're getting rid of earwax, but you're actually making the situation worse.

News; Health; Beauty trends; 9 smart beauty tricks using cotton buds that you might not have thought of before We've been told we can't clean our ears with them - but they have so many other uses ...

If you use cotton buds for make-up precision, you might know that make-up artists swear by the Muji Thin Cotton Buds (£3.50 for 200). Thankfully, these are made of a supple paper shaft that ...

Cotton buds are bad for your ears. Inserting a cotton bud into the ear canal may cause impaction of wax, ear-drum damage and or increase the risk of infection by damaging the skin in the ear canal.

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COTTON buds are we know them are set to disappear from supermarket shelves, with the plastic being replaced by rolled paper by the end of next year. Millions of cotton buds with plastic stems are f… ...

Flushing a cotton bud down the lavatory will no longer be so harmful to the environment, under plans from one of the world's biggest toiletry manufacturers to switch from plastic to paper sticks ...

Last Wednesday (May 22), the UK government made the decision to ban plastic cotton buds, straws, and stirrers, which will be brought into effect in April 2020. Despite this, it seems that brands ...

If you’ve been using cotton buds to clean your ears, it’s time to reconsider. Many of us grew up thinking that using cotton buds (or Q-tips) was the best way to clean our ears. After all, it ...

Cotton buds could give off a fleeting sense of cleanliness, but because the ear canal is so delicate, they can cause harm to the ear and lead to hearing loss. Mr. David T. Sang, the Ear, Nose, and ...