Snore Calm Foam Ear Plugs

Advantages: Can be reused making them good value for money. They are comfy and work well.
Disadvantages: Do not eliminate loud noise.

...~~~ INTRODUCTION ~~~ Allow me to paint a picture for you. I have lived in the comfort of my peaceful family home all my life until recently and I have moved out to go to university. Now, I am living in a building full of students with cardboard walls. OK, not quite cardboard but when you are trying to get to sleep it sure sounds like it. Anyway, there is always one - one person who can't talk quietly at one o'clock on the morning when I decide to have an early night. I am almost asleep and then all of a sudden, all I hear is talking. Firstly, I decide to lie and hope she "shuts up" soon. Like that was going to happen. So after a little while, it's time to get up and find those ear plugs! And on that note, brings us on nicely to the review. ~~~ WHAT ARE THEY? ~~~ Basically, these are things that go into the ear to prevent noise...

craigwstewart 02.10.2006 · Read review
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Gives your holes a damn good plugging.

Advantages: Eliminate most noise, comfortable.
Disadvantages: Do not eliminate Irish mothers.

...and take to the streets. Now, I don't begrudge anyone a party but when the housing estate that backs onto my street have a massive bonfire, hire the kind of sound system that puts Glastonbury to shame and put out a call to arms for the most spectacularly stupid and uninspired DJ ever to lay his hand on the decks ('Alright lads! This is DJ Loyalist Larry from the Orange massive! Mark? Your Ma says you're to have your tea before you go to the bonfire. Right folks, let's burn the pope to the sounds of, erm, Amy Winehouse. Yeah!') and they're still going strong at 3 in the morning, ear plugs are called for. Aside, though, from the obvious 'helping you to get to sleep' benefits of ear plugs, they do have another, rather vital, use: without ear plugs it's likely that my mother and I would have come to blows long ago. The trick, I have...

tallulahbang 13.07.2008 · Read review
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Review of Boots Soft Disposable Ear Plugs

The Plug, Sheffield

Advantages: Good venue, excellent location
Disadvantages: Long queues, varied nights so each night won't appeal to everyone

...The Plug is located above a block of offices right in the heart of the city centre and since opening its doors a few years ago it has established itself as one of the most popular venues in the city. It is a large club split into three different rooms; cleverly called Live, Earth and Neutral. Live is the room where most of the live bands play and there is a stage and a room large enough to accommodate around 500 people standing. The other two rooms are usually used to play different styles of music but the design of the place means that it is possible to remove the false walls and create one large room with a capacity of around 1200. I seen a few live acts here including Jarvis Cocker and Glasvegas and on both of these occasions it was just one large room rather than the three smaller ones. There are different theme nights held...

micksheff 08.03.2009 · Read review
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Sink plug in the ears

Advantages: High quality sound
Disadvantages: Not as comfy

...of the vertical position makes it feels heavier than normal. Also the round shape of the earphones seems to get in the way. Many earphones come in hybrid silicone rubber ear buds now, so does this. The rubber is suppose to seal in the ears, first for comfort, and secondly to decrease a lot more of external sound. Maybe I am old fashion, but I do prefer the older design of the plastic. The rubber feels like having a sink plug in the ears. Extra There are 3 sizes of the ear buds. There is pair of small, medium and large. An extension cord of 0.9m is included. The earphone comes with a small carry case for use when the earphones are not in use. Unless you do not mind laying the earphones around, you could keep it safe in the case. Price Date: 10/08/09 Retail price is £29.99 but amazon.co.uk is offering it for £28.53 and John...

wingnut888 10.08.2009 · Read review
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Review of Sony MDR-EX300SLB

Get some ear plugs!

Advantages: See text.
Disadvantages: See text.

...I would just like to offer my own thoughts and views on playing the violin as I have learnt to play it, or rather NOT how toplay it as some people would make out! There are many different sized violins, of course making it easier for those with shorter or longer arms to play. They are full size (adult); 3/4 size; half size, and 1/4 size (for the littler people). These can be purchased in any good music shop or on the Internet brand new (price dependant), or second hand from your local paper and again on the Internet (again price dependant). Being one of the major players in any standard orchestra, it is of course an instrument that when well it has a beautiful-sounding quality to it. Otherwise, play it in a sound proofed room with ear plugs - and that is for the person who is playing it at the time! The majority of people who...

dynamicnurse 24.01.2009 · Read review
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Earex ear drops

Advantages: A big help for hardened wax
Disadvantages: none

...Earache and toothache have to be two of the most uncomfortable conditions that anyone can suffer. The nagging pain of earache is very hard to relieve. Often as we get a bit older ear wax becomes a problem. The wax is produced in small glands situated inside of the ear canal, the glands produce a thin film of wax to keep our ears clean and help fight against any infection. If too much earwax builds up then that`s when the problem starts, my husband has suffered from hardened wax building up in his ears for a while now, it seems to be a problem that has worsened with age. If the wax builds up too much then his ear canals get really painful and the build up also starts to affect his balance and then he has to have them syringed by the Practise nurse at the local Doctors surgery. When you start to feel that your ears may be waxy...

Sarahjh1 19.12.2008 · Read review
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Hopi Ear Candles

Advantages: *
Disadvantages: *

... ~ Introduction ~ In the months leading up to my driving test and my January A-Level exams I started having frequent migraines. I used to get them less than once a year but I was now getting them every week. So willing to try anything that might prevent a migraine attack I started having Indian Head Massage (IHM). I've been having them for over a year now and they do really seem to help. When I went last month I told the therapist that I have been having lots more headaches (I'm quite stressed) and I'm starting to get mild migraines (not half as bad as they were before I started getting IHM). She did the IHM as usual but suggested that I book a Hopi Ear Candle instead of the IHM. I agreed, so on Wednesday I went for the appointment. ~ What are Hopi Ear Candles? ~ The candles used at the place I went to are made by...

bluejules 08.03.2008 · Read review
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Blocks all Problems

Advantages: Cheap, effective, easy to use
Disadvantages: None

...I am not the best person in the world at getting to sleep. Usually, it takes me a very long time if it's not really dark and completely quiet. I'm also one of those people who does not function at all well without the usual eight hours sleep a night. So, when I realised I'd be spending the night camped out on the floor of an office building (long story) along with a hundred or more other people, I knew I'd be in trouble. I'd packed a pillow, but it was a choice between my laptop and a sleeping bag, and the laptop, naturally, won. This meant I would need all the help I could get in falling asleep. My boyfriend, having spent other nights camped out in office buildings, said that ear plugs were incredibly useful. So, we stopped off at the Boots store in Kings Cross station and bought the cheapest ear plugs available: Boots soft...

87degrees 19.01.2008 · Read review
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Review of Boots Soft Disposable Ear Plugs

Silence Is Golden

Advantages: you can sleep better
Disadvantages: not all noises are shut out

...I´d like to quote a comment I found on an op on ear plugs: ´I figure there isn't a lot you can say about earplugs!´ Wrong! Never despise or deride the small things. One of the best minds in Italy, a professor of Philosophy at the University of Florence, sees earplugs among the greatest inventions of humankind. So there! What can these inconspicuous thingies achieve? - Save money Imagine a couple with one snoring partner. At home they´ve got separate bedrooms in order not to endanger the other partner´s well-being and happiness. What when they go on holiday? They need two single rooms which combined cost more than a double room (and - as every traveller knows - are invariably situated beside the lift or the toilets or face the backyard or all things together). - Save marriages What do people do who can´t afford two...

MALU 18.08.2004 (19.08.2004) · Read review
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PARDON? I have something in my ear!

Advantages: Eases discomfort, gently breaks through wax build up.
Disadvantages: Feels funny during application

...and clearing up muffled hearing. We first experienced the drops late one night when we were just settling into bed and I heard our little boy crying in distress, when I went to comfort him and ask what was the matter he was rubbing at his ear and complaining it hurt. I took him into our room and nestled him down into our bed while I tried to gently clean out his ears in the hopes it would ease his pain but he just became more distressed and so my husband got dressed again and headed out to the nearest all night pharmacy. He was recommended Earex drops and returned home with a small bottle for us to try. To apply the drops you need to tilt the head to one side, drop in 4 drops of the oil and then plug the ear with a wad of cotton wool, this was easier said then done with a distressed 3 year old, especially as we had to treat both ears, but...

piggypine 20.10.2008 · Read review
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