Earwax MD Ear Wax Removal Kit - Ear Cleaning Tool with Dissolving Drops and Rinsing Bulb - Unisex, All Ages

I've used hydrogen peroxide in the past, and have an electric sprayer designed for ear cleaning, but this formula works better. One 20 minute soak was sufficient.

I have used a lot of ear cleaning products in my life time. No products out there will completely dissolve your ear wax, so get the idea out of your head that you will be able to just dissolve the cerumen plug (conglomerate of ear wax blocking your auditory canal). I have tried the elephant ear washing kit alone by itself. Yeah it may get the cerumen plug out, but it can also cause vertigo and possibly rupture your ear drum. Trying to scrape the ear wax out with a tool is also dangerous. It’s very easy to scrape and cut the inside of your ear canal, which can result in an infection. Also many times people just end up pushing the cerumen plug in further. So what then should I use? The best way for me is to soften up the cerumen plug, and use a bulb to syringe it out with warm water. Of the ingredients out there to dissolve cerumen plugs, sodium bicarbonate is the best. It works better than hydrogen peroxide. You just need to avoid over using the product because it can change the ph in your ear and increase your risk of swimmers ear. I always use earwax MD because they are the only ones who use sodium bicarbonate.

Easy to use, both in the application phase and cleanup. Be prepared to get into a comfortable position to maintain the solution inside the ear canal for at least 15 minutes.

Recommedation on the product box is to allow 10 to 15 minutes for the product to work.However, after reading through dozens of reviews, I decided to go longer like the reviewers recommended. I turned on the TV and lay on my left side on the couch. My wife then put the drops into my right ear. For the next 60 minutes, I watched TV.After 60 minutes, I got some warm water and used the bulb to flush out my right ear. After about 15 or so flushes, a blob about the length of a pencil eraser (but a bit less in diameter) fell out. Immediately I noticed a diffence in the quality of sound I was hearing. (The blob consisted of tiny bits of hair, cotton wool-like stuff, and wax)I repeated the process on my left ear. This time I flushed more than 20 times, a tiny little bit of white cotton-wool came out. However, a big white blob could be seen just inside my ear. It was stubborn and refused to come out.So I again lay on my right side and put in more drops and waited for an hour. Then repeated the flushing with the bulb. After about 5 flushes, a big blob fell out. This was bigger than the one from my right ear. No wonder it was stuck!I wonder how so much cotton-wool got into my ears? Oh wait, yes... it must be from the Q-Tip cotton swabs that I had used over the years.I think that I still have a bit more gunk to remove from my ears... I'll do one more session next week. Took me more than 3 hours this time, but totally worth it!

This product does seem to work, but it is way too expensive an comes in a tiny bottle that must add to cost per oz. (Fraction of oz, really, as that is all there is.) The bottle does not have a common and inexpensive dropper cap; instead it has a proprietary 'ear dropper' that allows almost all of the compound to run out as the dropper is removed from the bottle. It also does not seem to reach the bottom of the bottle, as when the liquid gets low it picks up nothing. Even when full what it picks up runs out into the bottle (or all over elsewhere) as the dropper is removed from the bottle. If they simply had a dropper cap I would have given it 4 stars (reduced from 5 because of its price). It's almost as if the product is designed to be spilled and wasted so consumers will buy more. (I did not reviiew the squeeze bulb here.)