Ear Wax Candles....anyone Ever Try...
 

Hey,

has anyone ever tried those candles that claim to clean out your ears? went to a spa today to get a gift card for my girlfriends best friends birthday and saw this....does it actually work?

this is the first I've heard of them. lol

I thought you are supposed to remove wax from your ears ... not add it.

Yuck I have never tried it. I hope I don't. And I always look at my partners ears b4 i kiss em.

I always have a shitload of wax in my ears (from playing drums so much??), and have always wanted to try that. But I looked online and saw it's pretty much fake and impossible. Google dat shit and see what I mean.

I also know my old Italian relatives swear by them working, but they're all bonkers anyways....

SB

i have honestly never put candles in my ears

Never heard of it before.

People will buy into any shit though...

I do it once a month, religiously

it helps more than any doctor or drops ever did

Yup, they work wonders... don't knock it. It seems weird, but it really truly works.

what are the benefits?

I thought you meant candles made out of ear-wax. :Oh crap

it really works the candles create a vacuum and suck the ear wax out of your ear and into the tip of the candle. you'd be suprised if you've never had your ears cleaned by a doctor, how much wax builds up in your ears, when your done using the candles crack the bottom open and you'll see the yellow/orange hardened blob of ear wax.

they work really well, you'll notice an improvement in your hearing as soon as your done.

they sell them here at a homeopathic store for $1.99 each

it's bullshit - and i know cause i worked for a company that sold them

this article says it all: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ear_candling

:2 cents:

Being Italian and learning it from my old Italian relatives, I've done it a bunch of times and it really seems to work. It's just a bit worrisome having a flaming cone sticking out of your ear, so have someone you trust with you and not some drunk college buddy.

I think they are illegal to sell in some states.

yeah it's a good idea to have someone there to monitor how low the flame is to your head and also to make sure nothing happens. i usually cut a whole in a paper plate and stick the candle through the hole so in case of anything dripping or a piece of the flaming cone drops down, you don't get burned.

I have used them multiple times, it really seems to work, oh well if it was a placeblo type thing and faked me out, I thought it worked!

You can see the ear wax in the tip when you are finished, fun for the whole family!

for me? well, I don't have was falling out my ear every day

I have such bad ear wax, that I will be talking to someone and all the sudden this chunk the size of a pinky nail will fall out of my ear

i am finding so many conflicting reports/stories when i google this....i may give it a shot to try for myself....

I stick one up my ass when constipated, you should see the shit in the tip when finished :thumbsup

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a very popular company joke when we were talking about them. we were also discussing what would happen if you stick them into a girls vagina - but none of my female colleagues volounteered :Oh crap


READ THE WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE - THIS STUFF IS BULLSHIT!!

even the hopi indians deny that they have anything to do with them

Some dude was suing a spa on Peoples Court yesterday about that. So he wasn't too happy.

Next time we hang out, don't look at me strange if I'm staring at/into your ears.

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they work very well for me, like I said earlier, better than a doctor ever did...I have HORRIBLE ear wax

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Sound painful..

Don't Candle!!! It works, but it can be dangerous and it isn't nearly effective as this:

All you have to do is put ear wax softener or even just cooking oil in your ears. Let it sit. And go to the nurse. They flush it out with warm water.

It feels a bit weird but it doesn't hurt or anything. A grape sized chunk came out of my ear and I could hear WAY better. I bought myself an ear syringe and I do it myself now.

Just make sure you don't have an ear infection, I heard you can damage your shit if you clean them while infected.

A lil bit of hydrogen peroxide in the ears helps clean em out too. Just leave it in till it stops bubbling and popping, then q-tip to your hearts content.

that may work on some people, but not those that actually need to candling....plus, I have to do it once a month, i am not paying a nurse to do what you said once a month when I candle takes 10 minutes and works perfectly

wax softener just clogs me up more, olive oil does absolutely nothing for me

NEVER use hydrogen peroxide

Tried it a few years ago...did nothing for me, but then I know people who swear by them. The one good things is they're cheap so you've got nothing to lose but a few bucks.

A moth flew into in my ear (yep, a tiny one but imagine the flapping wings) the night before my grandma's funeral. I put oil in to kill it, the next day my ear was swollen almost shut, went to the doctor after the funeral. Have you ever seen what they use to clean out your ears? It was like this giant metal syringe thing that looked like a cake decorator on steroids. I can't even explain how painful the washing out was but the Doctor pointed out all the built up wax that also came out. And my hearing was a lot better for a while.

from what I remember reading(and that wiki article aforementioned prob mentions this too) no way burning a candle could A)create THAT MUCH suction to suck wax out of your ear, and, B)safely warm you inner ear enough to soften the wax to enable it's removal.
And the crud you see at the end of a burn is just melted candle.

But hey, if it feels good, do it. But it prob isn't doing what you thought it was.

I used to do drunked peroxide in the ear at college though. Now that was fun!
Bubbly, oozy CRUD! YUM!

SB

whoa, whoa, whoa....

did you really just say that????

AWESOME! TOTALLY AWESOME!

I know people swear by them

You are so fucking lucky that the moth didn?t crawl in further. My father once had a beetle land in his ear. It crawled in further and started to rub up against his eardrum. Needless to say he started acting like a complete madman, I thought he was having a heart attack. He started slamming his head against the walls, punching the side of his head with his own fist. This is the kind of person that got his teeth pulled without any anesthetic, the kind of person who got shot in the knee and went to work the next day. The kind of person that drank hot coffee straight from the fucking coffee maker. My brother drove him to the hospital and they pulled out the bug, it made a huge ?PLOP? sound. It was amazing that a little beetle was able to cause so much pain.

erm ever thought of stopping with those candles and see what happens then? I bet your problem will be solved :winkwink:

You should have held a flashlight up to your other ear, the moth would have flown toward it and out ... :1orglaugh

true i read that too a few years ago when i first heard of it. Seems like those candles are bullshit.