Cotton swabs “really weren’t made to clean your ears — all they do is just push the wax deeper down into your ear canal and ...

In truth, "nobody really knows why we have ear wax," Dr. Bhattacharyya says. But there are some good theories out there, one of which is that ear wax exists to help naturally clean out your ears.

There is a vast array of items on sale which say they will clean your ears or remove ear wax, but do any actually help? Problems often arise when we try to clean out this helpful wax using our ...