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 ...

Each lipstick comes in a cotton-swab applicator, and to apply the product, you break one side of the cotton swab to get the color to the other end and onto your lips. I chose a deep berry-red that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Using cotton tip applicators to clean the ear canal not ... Indeed, most of the injuries occurred while using cotton swabs to clean the ears (73 percent), the findings showed.