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They warn you on the box not to insert these things in your ear canal, but it sure beats what the inventor's wife used prior to his creation. Q-Tips were invented in the 1920's by a Polish-born American named Leo Gerstenzang. It seems that Leo's lovely and beautiful wife had rigged up a different device to clean their baby's ears at bathtime - a toothpick stuck into a piece of cotton.
Like so many others, my mother had been using Q-tips to clean her ears. But in doing so she was also messing with a natural process. Her ear was hurting because she had an ear infection, and there's a decent chance her routinely using Q-tips had helped cause it. Promise me something, the doctor told her. Promise me you'll never put another Q-tip inside of your ear.. Q-tips are one of the most perplexing things for sale in America. Plenty of consumer products are widely used in ways other than their core function â books for leveling tables, newspapers for keeping fires aflame, seltzer for removing stains, coffee tables for resting legs â but these cotton swabs are distinct.