How we got addicted to using Q-tips the wrong way

Q-tips, a brand of Unilever, is seen on display in a store in Manhattan, New York City, on March 24, and sticking Q-tips in your ears also can damage the ear canal.

In 1923, Gerstenzang supposedly thought he could improve upon his wife Ziuta's method of wrapping a wad of cotton around a toothpick to clean their newborn daughter Betty's eyes, ears, belly button and other sensitive areas during bathing. Soon, Gerstenzang changed the brand name to "Q-Tips Baby Gays." By the mid-1930s, "Baby Gays" was dropped from the name.

Mid-century advertisements often featured illustrations of men and women cleaning their ears or their babies' ears with them, including one depicting a man removing water from his ears after a swim.Even Betty White later appeared in television spots for Q-tips in the 1970s and 1980s, promoting them as the "safest and softest" swabs on the market for your eyes, nose and ears.

It wasn't until the 1970s, under previous owner Chesebrough-Pond's, that Q-tips added a warning about not sticking the thing in your ear. It's unclear what prompted this change. "It was just accepted that that's how people were using it," said Aaron Calloway, the Q-tips brand manager at Unilever in 2007 and 2008.So what should you use Q-tips for? The company has several suggestions. For decades, it has tried to emphasize the versatility of cotton swabs.

Interesting article, thanks!

They know why they’re selling, they just put the warnings for liability’s sake.

The same way people got addicted to using masks for the wrong purpose

Friggin’ Trudeau!!!!

eargasm

I need Qtips anonymous

This is the second anti-Qtip article I have seen in a week. I dunno who has a vendetta against the Qtip people, but using these in the canal is the best thing since sliced bread. Especially after water gets in the ear.

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