Use of ear candles are of a folk cure nature. They are a hollow tube, made of cotton strips, soaked with beeswax, about 10" long, have a diameter on one end small enough to fit into the ear and about the diameter of a nickel on the other end. For people with hard ear wax, ringing ears or several minor ear problems, they are inserted in the ear and lit. The hear and smoke creates a fireplace chimney effect pulling the earwax out of the ear. Mike