Q-tipsCotton Swabs, 500 Count (Pack of 4)

Great buy.

work as desired. it's a q-tip. i like the amount of cotton swab, that the stick isn't a particularly horrible kind of plastic (as many other brands use), in other words it's a high-quality q-tip.

Q-tips are incredibly important in my family. We will not live without them.

Ever watch YouTube videos of the bizarre ways that people attempt to rid themselves of the carrot-based baby food that the human ear mysteriously produces? What a freak-fest! You'll see folks using doll-house sized tea pots full of "secret formula" liquids, inserting lighted candles in their ear canals, lasers, trained clawed insects with dental floss tied around their thorax, Dr. Oz...you'll swear you've traveled back to the Iron Age. Look, I don't have any idea why we produce this orange custard on either side of our noggins, but it really doesn't matter. Fact is, you need to deal with it before it becomes a surgical issue. Keep it simple, stupid! Order up a gross or ream of Q-tips Cotton Swabs, 500 ct. and use them at least daily. And please, don't fall for the old wive's tale about not inserting anything into your ear smaller than your elbow. Not only are old wive's unreliable sources of medical information due to their overriding anger and resentment from having to deal with their old husbands (who are even dumber), but the elbow is an unreliable standard to apply to this circumstance. My wife's uncle grew up with a guy named Chick-a-biddy Shortshank whose elbow was more like the pointy ends of a arithmetic compass which, if inserted in your canal, would destroy your drum faster than the earwig did to Chekov in Star Trek - Wrath of Kahn starring Ricardo Montalban as Kahn. Trust me, Q-tips do the job just fine and are only as dangerous as the person using them. How dangerous are you?

These cotton swabs do everything I need a cotton swab to do, and that is no small order. They are the essential soldiers of the modern Personal Hygiene Battlefield. Ready to answer the call in your time of need.The very existence of the cotton swab should serve to remind us all that we are blessed to live in a Modern Civilized Society. Peoples and nations that lack the Cotton Swab are at risk of total societal collapse in to boogers and earwax. I won't mention any names...The Cotton Swab should serve to remind us all: Things Could be Worse.

Don't put anything in your ear smaller than your elbow... but if you have to brand name Q-tips are head and shoulders above any of the generic competitors. The stick is sturdy and won't bend or flex under pressure and the tips are soft and cushiony. These are most certainly worth the additional cost.Edit 11-27-2016 - Purchased the two count of 1,000 Q-Tips and this time received four slide open cardboard boxes of 500 Q-Tips each. They were encased in plastic wrap and tape and took nearly half an hour to get unstuck. Price was good. Wonder what happened to the standard plastic see through containers these used to come in.

I'm not terribly picky when it comes to Qtips with the exception of 2 things - the handle has to be white (so they look uniform in my clear q-tip jar) and the cotton tips can't come unraveled easily. I mainly use q-tips to touch up my eye makeup, and for me, there's nothing more irritating than having a small cotton wisp "tickling" your eye (which of course, is almost impossible to see) -- it drives me insane! For the longest time, I was just using the Walmart brand (Equate) q-tips because they were the cheapest and fit my 2 requirements. However, I've noticed that over the last 6-8 months, the Walmart ones have become poorer quality and I've had more frequent annoying wisps getting in my eye (especially sticking to my mascara). When I saw this Q-tip brand on Amazon for only $2.99 (I believe this is $1 more than I was paying for the Equate brand for the 500-count pack), I decided to give them a try. These Q-tip brand swabs have been MUCH better and out of the 4 or so boxes I've ordered thus far, I've only have about 4-5 (on average) swabs that were semi-unwound per pack of 500 swabs (much better than the 10-15+ unwound swabs in the Equate packages). I've also found that if some of the swabs start to slightly loosen (from me jamming them into my cotton swab jar), the cotton tips wind back up on the handle perfectly by gently twisting the tip against the back of my hand. (This trick was hit or miss with the Equate brand).For those who wear mascara -- As a side note, if you ever do happen to get one of those little annoying cotton wisps stuck in/around your eye, I've found that gently and slowly stroking your eyelash with a mascara wand helps to both find the wisp (since it coats the wisp black) and get it out of your eye (because of the little bit of stickiness to the mascara). This little trick has saved me tons of time and torture! :)

I love my Q-tips. I love them for all sorts of uses, mostly cleaning and drying in personal care or hobby work. I’ve tried others and I think Q-tips have the best consistency and quality for the price.You always hear that your should not put Q-tips into your ear. It’s good advice and if you anyway please do use great care to avoid injury. No warnings for navel cleaning!More seriously I really do appreciate the consistency and soft cotton tips that I’ll use to absorb that water blocking my ear after a shower or clean up minor makeup mistakes or as an impromptu makeup applicator. They also work great cleaning little nooks and crannies in stuff I might be working on.Q-tips are pretty simple and I think very well done. I love the quality and consistency of the real brand product. Obviously I feel this is a 5 star classic that has not change significantly in 40+ years. It’s hard to improve on perfect!

Perfect, it is exactly what I wanted

Always the best buds

very good product

Strong and reliable. Does not bend.