(6 Pair) - from Pure Beeswax - Highest NRR 34 Sound Blocking - Perfect Ear Plugs for Sleeping - 100% Snore Blocking - Waterproof for Swimming

(I am the wife of the purchaser indicated here, for what it's worth.)I am cursed with Princess and the Pea hearing. During the day, I hear every word of all the conversations in neighboring offices. I can distinctly hear a phone ring on the other side of a large college campus building and know whose phone it is from the tone. It's part acute hearing, part acute audio processing, and all TOTALLY ANNOYING. More important, at night, I wake up if a squirrel farts in a tree outside. OK, minor overstatement, but house creaking, dogs walking, husband snoring, cars driving by, young daughter dreaming--all these things prevent me from falling asleep, and then once biology forces me to pass out, these things wake me several times a night. I have spent years, seriously, like at least twenty years, miserable and unrested because of it.Ear plugs are the obvious solution, but I also have tiny ear canals -- the kind that have caused doctors my whole life long to ask, and then ask again, disbelievingly, whether I have tubes in my ears. (I don't.) I am completely unable to use any kind of foam ear plugs, no matter how small. It is utterly impossible to roll anything up and insert it into my ear canals. I have also tried the silicone type that are similar to these wax ones, but they just don't stay in very well and they lose their stick right away, and for some reason I have found them uncomfortable and a little frustrating.Having reached the point of thinking I was going to have to move into my own apartment, preferably subterranean, away from my family and pets, in order to get some sleep, I finally decided to give ear plugs one final try, and I splurged on these.THEY WORK LIKE FREAKING MAGIC.This material is far superior to silicone. They soften to a much better consistency for pressing into the outside of the ear, and they remain sticky for much longer, so they stay in and seal out the sound all night long.They are actually comfortable. With my tiny ears, I actually tear just one in half and use half in each ear, and it works perfectly. I don't get the uncomfortable ear pressure that I for some reason do with the silicone ones that don't work as well anyway. I hardly feel them!The decibel reduction is amazing. It isn't quite artificial deafness, but the snoring and dogs scratching at the door are so faint and far away that I can not only sleep through it, I can actually fall asleep while it is going on. I cannot hear the busy street outside my window at all. I. SLEEP. THROUGH. THE. NIGHT.The only drawback to these is that they do indeed leave a little blue smudge on your pillowcase if you are a side sleeper. The solution is to invest in a beautiful new set of dark colored linens. You'll want and deserve them for your newfound joy of sleeping anyway.Honestly, I'd give these six stars if I could. Ten. These earplugs have made it possible to sleep through the night after twenty years of wanting to cry every morning after a fitful night of being disturbed by the swirling of stardust in an adjacent galaxy.I hope they work as well for you.

This ear plug is the very best folks. BE PATIENT WITH THEM...You won't regret it!...read my suggestions:I have used foam plugs my entire life (I'm 47 now), and they worked well until my left ear canal developed some issues that made even the softest of the foam ones too difficult to use, just too painful. And I developed tinnitus a few years back due to prescription drug use (I of course stopped taking the drug, please be careful of prescription drug side effects folks, they're poison!), so I became even more sensitive to sound, even avoiding theater movies. Really began impacting my life too much.I tried this brand a couple years ago at a concert, and could not get them in my ear properly. I was very disappointed, had to revert back to another brand of foam plugs, and ended up leaving the concert due to some notes just being too piercing for my now-sensitive ears, and due to huge discomfort in my left ear canal from the foam.I decided to try this brand again, since I had no choice due to the discomfort of the foam ones, and really spent some time with them the day of a concert; I warmed them in my hand, and molded them with my fingers for a long time, so that a quarter to half-inch (maximum) of the material went IN my ear canal (just a very short ways in) and then spread/smoothed the remaining material around the rest of the outside of the ear canal (the area that leads to the ear canal, referred to as the "external auditory meatus" and the "concha") so that a big blue clay smeared blob filled the entire entrance area to my ear canal.I spent a solid 20 minutes with multiple attempts, when finally...BINGO...I got an air-tight seal, a seal where one can tell there is a pressure difference (and where you then have to make sure you remove them very slowly because of that air-tight seal).KEEP SMOOTHING THEM IN THE EAR CANAL AND EXTERIOR WITH YOUR FINGERS; you'll get the hang of it and experience the air pressure difference at a certain point...then you know they're IN.So I spent the time, a solid ten minutes, to put one of these in my bad ear, and used a foam one in the other for a concert last night. These *unquestionably* blocked more sound (and the foam ones had the *highest sound blocking rating on the market*). During the intermission, I took the foam one out and spent the 20 minute break working the other one in my ear, and finally GOT it. JUST TAKES PRACTICE FOLKS. And the sound blocking was the best I ever experienced in my life now in both ears.Please note that sound will penetrate your skull folks, do not expect to hear NOTHING. But you will get the best blocking you can get to the entrance into your ear canal with these plugs.I'm big on leaving positive reviews when they're deserved. This is a GREAT product for those who really need serious sound blocking, like at concerts. The blocking does not reduce the enjoyment of the music, but does completely eliminate the discomfort of loud sound/noise.REMOVE THEM SLOWLY, gently, to avoid discomfort from the powerful air pressure issue. I just pull on various parts of my ear gently looking for a little pressure release in my ear canal; when it happens, then I know I can pull them out. You'll feel it happen.Yes, a little of the blue wax/clay stuff gets under your fingernail or two, it's just a tiny bit messy, but no big deal at all, and certainly worth the sound blocking power. The stuff stays intact, I did not experience any other issues with it falling apart.AGAIN: SPEND TIME WORKING WITH THEM. You'll be glad you did, and will find these to be the best sound-blockers there are. Great product. :)