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The ravages of a cotton swab, our ears’ worst enemy

Make up your child; paint on candy plates; apply eye shadow on your eyelids; cleaning small toys; make a paper wreath…it’s amazing how much you can do with cotton swabs! On its website, Q-tips, an American giant in the field, lists all possible uses for this cotton swab on both ends. But don’t say a word about being able to use it… to clean your ears.

And for good reason. Despite its harmless appearance, cotton swabs are actually the worst enemy of our ears. “A perfect example of the impact of hygiene (and its excesses) on our world today.” tells us, not without humor, Olivier Morino, ENT surgeon, with his taste Black cotton mop book.

Invented at the beginning of XXe century, the cotton mop was an immediate success; “Young, American, white, of course, extremely cute, with an image of purity, even sincerity, that makes you surrender to him.” Many admit…

Source: Le Figaro

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