Ear candles are made of cotton or linen tightly wound into a cone shape. The candle is soaked in beeswax, paraffin, or soy ...

Ear candles are marketed as an easy solution for people wanting to get rid of their wax. The technique involves placing a lit, hollow cone-shaped beeswax candle in the ear. This is supposed to ...

Likewise, ear candling, which requires placing one end of a candle in the ear and lighting the other end, is another common method to draw out the wax from the ear and is considered unsafe.

People suffering from a build-up of ear wax are not entitled to have their ears syringed on the NHS in England, a government minister has confirmed. Edward Argar said it was no longer one of the ...