Lastswab Reviews 29

I am a long term heavy user of cotton buds due to very sticky wax that won't see its own way out, especially during pollen season. I purchased lastswab in an attempt to cut down on luggage during a three month trip.
For use in my ears, with my particular wax, lastswab works incredibly well. The very viscous sticky wax is collected easily. Under running water the swabs clean easily (in times of no running water I found it more difficult, but that is not most people's everyday concern)
The swab is almost 12 months old and still going strong. I have not returned to cotton buds.

I think those that have thin wax or who used cotton buds to have the sensation of a squeaky clean and scrubbed ear probably won't find this as effective. However if you're the sort of person who just needs to mechanically dig some ear wax out, lastswab works extremely well.

Really disappointing. I love the concept as an eco conscious person. I did find them decent with cleaning my ears however I've cleaned them using a tiny amount of soap and water and the buds came lose. Unfortunately one came off into my ear, my family member dug it out. I thought maybe this was a one off and didn't want to give up on the reusable product as I hate waste. Then the other bud fell off into my ear, unfortunately at that time noone was around to help as it was night that this happened. I then thankfully had a family member retrieve the other bud the next morning. This then made the reusable concept pointless as I'd had to throw the buds away and the stick part. I thought maybe I'd made a mistake in how I had cleaned them but it says on the website to clean them with a small amount of soap and water 🙈. I hope to find another reusable brand that's more stable than one that will fall apart and when they got stuck luckily they didn't go deep into my ear but this still panicked me. Please if you read this Last Swab, consider making your product more durable and actually long lasting.

great company, great idea

Swabs look nice, packaging is clever, but they don’t clean your ears. Not absorbent and just feels like shoving hard plastic in your ears.

I figured at least that they would be some sort of foam, like earplug material, which is washable, but no.

As much as I wanted a renewable option to cotton buds, I feel like I’ve just created more waste getting rid of my plastic LastSwab. Really unfortunate.

When I ordered it, it took only two days to arrive.
I really like the concept and the container.
To the swab itself. It's well done, but the pimples/burls break off? And that just after a few uses. Don't think anyone wants to get more stuff into their ear. They should work on that.

Purchased the basic version. I absolutely loved the concept, but after using it for a while I've sadly found that Lastswab isn't efficient at cleaning your ears. The TPE material and the little nubs on the ends are oddly counter-productive to cleaning, as they only serve to push things around rather than pick anything up.

I was really excited to have found a sustainable alternative to cotton swabs, so I'm disappointed that this didn't work. I hope Lastswab will put in the effort to develop the product into one that works more efficiently in the future, because I still think this is an idea worth supporting.

Not here to review the delivery but the product itself. It's a really great concept but unfortunately doesn't work at all. I love supporting renewables but it feels more like this product was created to make money and not actually help the planet. Material is fairly harsh and feels like it will hurt my ear if I make any tiny mistake. There is no texture on the swab, just those half-spheres which literally don't do anything. My wife and I gave it a chance for 2 weeks, didn't want to discard it after one or two tries but it's just terrible, won't clean your ears at all. They didn't really put much effort in the actual development it seems as there are some flaws that are so obvious, anyone could see it will not work. Very disappointed but what can you do. We'll keep looking for a better product, this one is unfortunately going into the recycle bin. "Reply: it was the basic one with bumpy tips, wife is still not sure about the make up one 😁"

Unlike the vast majority of the reviews here my product did arrive, but there are some interesting comments to add here:
1. I got 4 swabs total. Specifically 2 purple (1 beauty 1 basic) and 2 pink (1 beauty 1 basic). On the outside of the packaging it only mentioned 3 of the 4 products contained inside, with the colors all wrong. This was a bit strange, and seemed like they had put the wrong label on the package or something.
2. Fortunately, the contents were actually the 4 swabs I ordered.
3. Actually acquiring this package was a gongshow. They did not put my address properly as it was missing the apartment number.. So I had to go to London Drugs to try and pick it up, and when I did they had no package. When they looked it up to track it, it said the package did not exist, yet someone attempted to deliver it and left a slip?
4. After much confusion they suggested I call the postal service. While looking up the number and waiting for an UBER, someone had found the package in the back somehow.

Although this was a bit of a disaster, the swabs are good and do as advertised for me and my partner. They don't entirely replace cotton swabs but definitely do cut down on waste significantly and this is good. However given the overwhelming amount of negative reviews about this company and the large number of alternatives when it comes to silicone or biodegradable swabs, I would suggest ordering from a different company; one that isn't so lackluster.

It’s to no surprise that when I came to write a review about LastSwab, that I am not alone in my disappointing experience.

I ordered on the 18th October for Kris Kringle Christmas presents, my order still hasn’t arrived and it’s New Year’s Eve! After writing to get a refund, they refused to issue it.

I wasted AUD160 on something that does not seem to exist!

I received an email that I will receive my order in the end of November (latest). I received it one month too late. Customer service never replied to my multiple emails. Avoid this company.

Reviews say the make up one doesn't work properly. I still haven't received my order but I'll have to pay a lot of extra money for import tax now as they suddenly decided to send them from China instead of the Netherlands. For most EU countries this will add an additional 20 euros to their order even though they already payed almost 30EUR for 2 swabs or 40EUR for 4 swabs.