Ever wondered what comes out of your ear canal and eustachian tube? Check out the photos below, yes it is earwax, really! The white powder is condensation of the cotton inside the candle.

The ear candling process here at Stella's Light takes approximately 60mins, which means 30mins for each ear and 4 cuts are completed. This isn't a rushed process, ears are an important organ, and the candle does what it needs to do during this process which is slowly burn. During ear candling many of my clients state they can hear a mini "campfire in their ear", a gentle crackling and hissing as the flame burns the organic cotton material. Actually, most clients feel so chilled out that they fall asleep and need to be gently woken to switch ears.

Although ear candling is said to be an ancient practice, its origin and history are unclear as there's no fossil remains or ear candles found in a museum, but rather an oral tradition passed down through generations.
However, the manufacturer of Naturhelix ear candles, a Hungarian company, "have found surprising and undeniable evidence for the ancient use of ear candling as a health-promoting method: Hungarian ethnographers spent a long period of time in the ’90s with the ancient Siberian Khanty people and did ethnographic research on their lives" (CMA, UK). The researchers spent time with the Khanties, and had the opportunity to record, on film, a Khanty father treating his child with an ear candle made by himself (Youtube clip below). No one seems to know for certain, where the origins of ear candling began but many have questioned it.