Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Libraries Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Blog Pricing

cotton bud in Podcasts

product

A physical product used for cleaning ears, invented in the 1920s.

Mentions Over Time

2 mentions

Mentions in Podcasts

Do you really know?
Is using cotton buds bad for your ears?

YouGov research from 2019 found that 62% of Brits use cotton buds to clean their ears, and 22% of us only use them for that purpose.

Do you really know?
Is using cotton buds bad for your ears?

Polish-American man Leo Gerstenczang is credited with inventing the humble cotton bud in the 1920s, and the item has since gone on to be used for many different purposes, having originally been thought up as a baby hygiene product.