the type of earwax you have comes down in part to your skin type, Dr. Shapiro explains. People with oilier skin may have wet earwax, while those with drier skin tend to have dry earwax, she says.

People of East Asian descent are more likely to have dry earwax, while wet earwax seems to be more common with everyone else

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    6 months ago

    The best discovery in my life is something called the Elephant Ear. It’s a squirt bottle for getting water behind your earwax and pushing it out from the back

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        5 months ago

        I just recently discovered the use of peroxide in this way. It’s cheap and works better than anything else I’ve tried.

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          Yeah from what I was reading it’s used professionally in dr offices. IIRC they use like slightly more concentrated h2o2 (hydrogen peroxide) but I wouldn’t even if you could get your hands on stronger stuff as it could cause DMG and it’s mainly, again from my understanding, used to speed up the process so you aren’t sitting there for like 30 minutes or something. Again, probably wrong and may have forgotten this incorrectly. Consult a Dr not some rando online.