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Take a walk along the beach. A small proportion by volume but a large proportion by number, of the pieces of plastic you will find, will be the stems of Q-tips.
by smackay 6y ago
Take a walk along the beach. A small proportion by volume but a large proportion by number, of the pieces of plastic you will find, will be the stems of Q-tips. If you're going to use them, get the paper kind and leave the ones with plastic on the shelf.
- notJim 6y agoThose flosser things are among the worst offenders these days. When I go camping, I always see them littered around campsites.
- GekkePrutser 6y agoThe paper ones are too soft though, you can't put enough pressure to scrape the side of the ear canal. Also, I use them for other things too such as cleaning electronics with alcohol where more pressure is often needed. What is more important is to dispose of them correctly so that they don't end up on the beach in the first place.
- garblegarble 6y agoI've switched to bamboo qtips for electronics, they can take a good amount of force (although not as much as plastic ones)
- heavyset_go 6y agoThere are wood Q-tips if firmness is important to you. They're also generally cheaper.
- bigbubba 6y agoQ-Tip brand q-tips are made of paper. As far as I'm concerned, they're the superior product all around, all the alternatives I've seen have inferior fluffiness. I'm not usually one for brand loyalty, but in this instance I haven't been able to find any generic version that's satisfactory.
- gowld 6y agoWhere? I've never seen Q-tips on the beach