Ear wax removal kits? Wow I never heard of this. I think my ear cilia are surpassingly lazy, they push the wax to just outside my inner ear and then leave it there. Whereas my boyfriend’s ear cilia are overachievers who push it all the way out.
I’ll have to ask my doctor! Thanks!
MightyGirl: Yep. Warm tap water. If you want, you can include a splash of hydrogen peroxide in the mix if you feel adventurous, but make sure you don’t get it in your eyes (you’d probably want to practice for a while with plain water until you get the hang of it).
I would also reccomend using hydrogen peroxide and warm water in a bulb. An ear wax removal kit I have from the drugstore just has Carbamide peroxide, which only works slightly better. But remember that earwax is there for a reason, and a little bit in there is okay :). You only need to remove it if there’s an excess that’s impairing your hearing or coming out of your ear.
When I went to the doctor and had it done for the first time, it was a very unpleasant experience. The nurse actually used some sort of high-powered contraption and when I got home my ear was bleeding and in pain. I’ll be doing it myself from now on.
Ear Candling proponents are living proof that all the loonies haven’t been binned.
Wait until you get a load of those who believe in homeopathy…
If the purpose of the candle is to gently warm the ear canel and thus provide relief for an earache infection, then it may not be quackery. But if they say that the candle is drawing inpurities out of your ear…quack…quack…quack!!1 
I would like to report that everything went right. Nothing came out of my ears and I have no disconfort, in fact I feel great with the neighborhood going so quiet suddenly and all. 
The nurse in my clinic recommended using olive oil or a sodium bicarbonate solution to soften wax before getting my ears syringed. She also said that those home ear cleaning kits don’t actually work.
Well, my nurse said that even if they don’t actually remove the wax, they soften it enough that it can be rinsed out with warm water, so nyah.