Advice from an ear, nose and throat specialist on how to clean your ears at home, what tools to use and what to watch out for. Jesse Orrall (he/him/his) is a Senior Video Producer for CNET. He covers ...

Using a cotton swab or Q-tip to get wax out of your ears can be dangerous. This is what you should do instead.

It may seem puzzling that your ears — which of course operate best when they’re not clogged up — produce a waxy substance that sometimes seems to do just that. But earwax actually plays an important ...

Putting a cotton swab in your ear is a terrible way to clean it, since the swab may remove a little bit of earwax but tends to shove the rest in deeper. But if you’ve a developed a q-tip habit, it can ...

It turns out, you shouldn’t use a cotton swab to clean out your ears. Your ears are self-cleaning machines, with very little maintenance required. One of its best defenses? Earwax. Earwax is a ...