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Ear Wax Advice
Instructions for treating ear wax at home.
Please buy:
- Olive oil
- Cotton wool balls
- Vaseline
- Glass dropper
- Instil olive oil into the affected ear(s) using the glass dropper
- Immediately after, place a cotton wool ball that has been covered in vaseline in the ear and leave it there
- Do this 2 or 3 times a day for 2 weeks or until the ear(s) unblock.
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