TIL that there are two types of earwax: wet and dry - eviltoast

the type of earwax you have comes down in part to your skin type, Dr. Shapiro explains. People with oilier skin may have wet earwax, while those with drier skin tend to have dry earwax, she says.

People of East Asian descent are more likely to have dry earwax, while wet earwax seems to be more common with everyone else

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    5 months ago

    Yeah from what I was reading it’s used professionally in dr offices. IIRC they use like slightly more concentrated h2o2 (hydrogen peroxide) but I wouldn’t even if you could get your hands on stronger stuff as it could cause DMG and it’s mainly, again from my understanding, used to speed up the process so you aren’t sitting there for like 30 minutes or something. Again, probably wrong and may have forgotten this incorrectly. Consult a Dr not some rando online.