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 ...

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 ...

Today I’m trying ear candling, which has an ancient history in China and is related to moxibustion. It involves burning a flaming candle with mugwort smoke in and around someone’s ear. (No joke!) It’s ...

I’m not particularly weird, but I like to clean my ears. Not as much as Lena Dunham’s character, Hannah, on the HBO show, “Girls,” who jammed a Q-tip so far in there she had to go to the hospital. Nor ...