Ear candling seems to be popping up in salon windows and Instagram feeds everywhere these days. But what is it exactly? Ear candling, which was a popular practice of the ancient Egyptians, involves ...

What can lighting a candle and sticking it in your ear actually do for you? The answer, according to Venice aesthetician Therese Lynston, is quite a lot. The process is thought to date back at least ...

For those of you that are not familiar, ear candling is a process that is supposed to clean out ear wax and other stuff by "sucking" it out using heat from a burning candle (sounds weird, right?). Ear ...

Though ear candling has been practiced for millennia, the practice’s authenticity is still questioned. “It is best defined as the use of an ear candle which is (typically) a beeswax or paraffin wax ...

The FDA has finally come out against ... "ear candling." This is good news -- but it's at least six years too late. Sensible people have known that ear candles are at best ineffective and at worst a ...

The FDA filed 15 warning letters against companies selling ear candles, in the apparent -- and wholly justified -- belief that sticking a burning object into your ear while it is dripping liquid wax ...

Plenty of folks swear that ear candling works, and if you’re trying to be good and not use Q-tips, this spa service may seem like a reasonable way to get earwax out of your ears. Unfortunately, the ...

I came out the other morning for breakfast to find my wife, Madeline, with her head on the table and a burning candle sticking in her ear. And, I'm not making this up, she had a disposable pie pan on ...

Today I’m trying ear candling, which has an ancient history in China and is related to moxibustion. It involves burning a ...