Consider the mighty swab. In homes, an excavator of earwax, an implement for art projects, an applicator and remover of makeup, yet often shoved into the nether regions of some closet, the box ...

The advice from doctors is clear: Don’t use cotton swabs to clean your ears. But people continue to use a soft-tipped plastic or paper stick to dig out the wax from their ear canals – and it ...

Step away from that cotton swab. Despite years of warnings to avoid ... in emergency rooms for ear injuries related to cotton-tip applicators between 1990 and 2010, a new study published in ...

They are the health and beauty product just about all of us have at home: cotton tip applicators. Whatever you call them, researchers say do not put them in a child’s ears. Scientists from the ...

The family-owned company, which started in 1919, now has multiple locations in Maine and employs around 500 people.