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July 27, 2020 01:00 pm GMT

The LastSwab will keep you from throwing away hundreds of cotton swabs every year

You sort out your recycling. You dont use plastic bottles anymore. And youve even gone paperless, right down to using the canvas shopping bag at the grocery store. But even if youre trying to be ultra-vigilant to the environmental impact you make on our planet, there are bound to be some blind spots in that philosophy that you may not have considered.

Blind spots like...what about all those cotton swabs you use?

Sure, they may look innocuous enough, but the reality is that manufacturers pump out more than 1.5 billion brand new swabs each and every day. Then after one ear cleaning or makeup application, you toss it right into the trash, where that used cotton swab joins its 1.5 billion daily brothers to end up part of another huge lump of waste clogging your area landfill.

You can put your foot down on even more waste in our world by ending your swab addiction with the LastSwab Reusable Swab.

Made from stiff, compact nylon with medical silicone grade tips, the LastSwab is engineered to be used and reused over 1,000 times before it needs to be replaced. The LastSwabs high quality, non-toxic, soft-feel tip is designed to feel much like cotton, the thermoplastic elastomers (TPE) offering comfortable usage without any irritation, no matter what body part is being cleaned or highlighted.

After each usage, just run it through a quick hand washing with some soap and water and it's back to being as good as new. Heck, even the swabs carrying case is biodegradable...although Read the rest


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