Founder & Inventor Of The Patented U-Tip

It was 2001 when Jake, founder of UtilityTip Ear Cleaners was on a service mission for his church. Jake's missionary colleague was obsessed with cleaning his ears with cottonswabs because he produced excessive amounts of earwax. One morning, Jake's missionary colleague was completely deaf in one ear! Jake rushed him to the doctor and as the doctor was looking at his eardrum, using an otoscope, the doctor said: "you use cottonswabs don't you?". Jake's missionary colleague said, "yes, I like to have clean ears". The doctor said "stop! you're impacting the earwax against your eardrum preventing it from vibrating and conducting sound".



Jake was assigned by the doctor to clean his missionary colleagues' earwax out. As Jake was removing the earwax, and likely being traumatized by it, he said to himself "there's got to be a better way". Jake did like any entrepreneur would do and set out to create his own ear wax remover. His vision was simple. Design a reusable, multi-pocketed, and safe earwax remover. His belief that no one should suffer earwax related pains and discomforts became the cornerstone of UtilityTips brand and one that permeates every facet of his business today.



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