Wipe with a damp washcloth: This is the safest and best method of all. You can't really get inside your ear canal with your ...

Plenty of folks swear that ear candling works, and if you’re trying to be good and not use Q-tips, this spa service may seem like a reasonable way to get earwax out of your ears. Unfortunately, the ...

Allergies, cold and flu affect hundreds of thousands of North Texans. Many constantly search for ways to ease their symptoms. Some have turned to a controversial home remedy called ear candling. And ...

Ear candling seems to be popping up in salon windows and Instagram feeds everywhere these days. But what is it exactly? Ear candling, which was a popular practice of the ancient Egyptians, involves ...

Every day, millions of Americans use cotton swabs to clean their ears. However, cotton swabs can push earwax further into the ear, causing wax blockage in the ear canal. Ear candling or ear coning can ...

I’m not particularly weird, but I like to clean my ears. Not as much as Lena Dunham’s character, Hannah, on the HBO show, “Girls,” who jammed a Q-tip so far in there she had to go to the hospital. Nor ...

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“My general recommendation for people is let the body do its job,” Lustig said. “Let that skin migration with the wax come out on its own. Take a wet washrag onto your finger and clean out whatever ...

Q-tips, pencils, hairpins, pen caps, jewelry, even Barbie doll accessories — people stick all kinds of things in their ears to remove earwax or to scratch an itchy ear. But wedging a foreign object ...