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by fragmede 20 days ago
We live in the future. You can get an ear cleaning camera endoscope device for $40 next day Amazon delivery anywhere they reach.
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Unless you have a regular problem with impacted earwax that flushing with earwax-softening solutions doesn't solve, I don't see what actual problem an endoscope solves.

We do live in the future, but there are a bunch of gizmos that the future provides that generally aren't worth the hassle.

Or you could just take a shower, which makes it easy to wipe the excess earwax from your ear.
Having heard of this shower thing before, it doesn't do the trick if your earwax is dry and waxy.
For me, a shower is a precondition for earwax removal with a cotton swab. Without one, I'd need to break out hard scraping tools... which strikes me as far more hazardous than running a swab around the outer orifice of my ear canal and surrounding exterior areas.

It'd be lovely if I had the sort of ears that produce wax that would just drain after five minutes' exposure to warm water vapor, but I do not. Given the popularity of cotton swabs, as well as the fairly-widespread commentary about how fantastic it feels to goop out earwax with them, I expect that most folks do not have ears like that. Perhaps OP does have the sort of ears that produce very fluid wax. Lucky them.