How not to clean your ears
Under no circumstances use cotton buds, match sticks, hair grips, keys etc., to ‘clean’ your ears.
Using any of the above products will only push the wax deeper and possibly cause trauma to your ear canal or even rupture your eardrum.
The use of self-irrigation ear wax removal kits is not recommended as it is easy to cause eardrum perforation, trauma, and cause infection.