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Or you could just take a shower, which makes it easy to wipe the excess earwax from your ear.

• fragmede 3mo ago
  Having heard of this shower thing before, it doesn't do the trick if your earwax is dry and waxy.
  • simoncion 3mo ago
    For me, a shower is a precondition for earwax removal with a cotton swab. Without one, I'd need to break out hard scraping tools... which strikes me as far more hazardous than running a swab around the outer orifice of my ear canal and surrounding exterior areas. It'd be lovely if I had the sort of ears that produce wax that would just drain after five minutes' exposure to warm water vapor, but I do not. Given the popularity of cotton swabs, as well as the fairly-widespread commentary about how fantastic it feels to goop out earwax with them, I expect that most folks do not have ears like that. Perhaps OP does have the sort of ears that produce very fluid wax. Lucky them.