These are the best. I wouldn't buy any other brand than QTIP.

You wouldn't think a cotton swab would need to be a particular brand, but we learned the hard way. Ouch! Q-tip is the only brand I will purchase as it is gentle on the ear. The generic brands are so skimpy with the cotton that it is like using a hard stick in your ear. Ouch!

Aside from the fact that I think "safety swab" is the most absurd name for a Q-tip ever, was there ever really any doubt that this is the best brand? It's like "Kleenex" versus "tissues": there is a good reason that people say "Q-tip," rather than "cotton swab" in everyday language--they're just the only brand that matters. Important facts about Q-tips: 1) they, as previous reviewers have mentioned, have more cotton at the ends. 2) said cotton tends not to end up stuck to everything other than the Q-tip, as happens with generic brands. 3) MOST IMPORTANTLY: the stick of the Q-tip is FIRM, not folding at the mere sight of an ear canal like every store brand swab does. since most people seem to disobey Q-tip packaging's direct orders NOT to put them in their ears, I figure this information would have been more ubiquitously reviewed. but since it has not been, I'm happy to report that Q-tip brand swabs are up to whatever task, or ear canal, you care to give them.

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Stick it in pull it out!

I won't use any other swab. I've tried & always regretted it. The cotton stays on the stick so well & doesn't shred all over the place. I use it for hygiene as well as cleaning small things that can't be reached in any other fashion.

Best cotton swabs.

Seriously, how can antone live without Q-tips? They are the only brand of cotton swabs I trust, and they have hundreds of uses. From cuts and scrapes to your face and ears, they are the only brand I trust. Could not live without them!

After a trip to the Emergency Room to remove the cotton from a generic brand out of my ear, I will NEVER use anything but Q-tips again!

This is the only brand of cotton swabs that I use. The stick is strong and the tip is soft. They can be used for just about everything (cleaning, makeup and more).