For example, if you insist on buying Advil instead of store brand ibuprofen. I mean, you’d be wasting your money in that example, but you do you

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    1 year ago

    I know it is not recommended, but I produce a lot of earwax, and if I don’t use them sooner or later it will mess up with my ears, actually now that I recall, I have been for years without any issue in my ears 🤔

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      1 year ago

      https://clinere.com/

      I use these regularly. I feel like they do the best job and they also allow me to gently “scratch” the inside of my ear. It’s not really scratching, but it relieves the itch I can sometimes get.

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      If you need to clean your ears that desperately, buy yourself earwax dissolver instead. Medically safe and easy to use, and unlike qtips, it will reach every nook and corner of the ear canal and clean up everything, pouring out the dirt like oil.

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      QTips cause wax plugs, if you use them gently to clean just the outer bit of the ear canal, it is kind of okay, but really you shouldnt. The ear canal is cone shaped so as you insert the Qtip you inevitably push some wax down.

      Furthermore the ear canal is self cleaning.