Ear Candles | Ear Wax Candles | Ear Candling Kits

Which one do you actually need?

Blocked, itchy or muffled ears are common, and a straight answer about what each product actually does is not. So here is ours.

If you want the ritual, you want the candles

Ear candles are ten warm, quiet minutes: a hollow cone of unbleached cotton and beeswax burning down to a printed line while you lie still. They do NOT remove ear wax. The residue inside a burnt cone is wax and ash from the candle itself, and a cone burnt in open air leaves the same residue.

Audiology bodies generally advise against ear candling. We would rather put that on the page than sell you a candle on a promise it cannot keep. It is for adults, it needs two people, and it is not for anyone with grommets, a perforated eardrum, an ear infection, discharge, ear pain or hearing loss.

If you already have a kit, you want the discs

Protective ear discs are the flat foil circles that sit between the flame and your head and catch drips and ash. One per candle, a fresh one each time, and never a candle without one. Every kit we sell already includes them; these packs are for when you run out.

If you want to look, you want the otoscope or the camera

The fibre optic otoscope is the simpler instrument: a 3x optical glass lens, a bright LED and reusable tips from infant to adult. Somebody else holds it and looks; you cannot see round the corner into your own ear.

The USB camera light pen puts a 5.5mm camera and an LED on the end of a metal pen and shows what it is pointed at on a Windows PC or an Android phone. It is not compatible with iPhone or Mac, and we would rather say so here than at your kitchen table.

Neither diagnoses anything. The point of both is to SEE the outer canal instead of working blind, and the sensible use is exactly that: look, and stop.

What we do not sell, on purpose

Metal curettes, scoops, spiral picks and suction guns. Anything rigid going into a canal you cannot see is how eardrums get perforated, and a suction device strong enough to shift hard wax is strong enough to do harm. We also do not sell softening drops, because your pharmacy sells them for less than we could.

If your ears are genuinely blocked, that is a job for a clinician, not for anything on this site.