[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Qtips is the only brand of cotton swabs that we trust in our family from our newborn to our own ears. The packaging is easy to open and the quality of the swabs beat all the rest. The stick is firm and gets in small places. They are durable.. one stick goes a long way

Just bought the second box of 500 Q-Tips cotton swabs. I had hopes this box would be the quality that Q-Tips was known for. Nope, they are flimsy and roll under any pressure. There is nothing left that separates Q-Tips from the generic brands except the price. Hopefully, someone got a big promotion for cutting production cost.

Q tip brand was the best-key word being WAS. I bought the 3 pack at Sam's not too long ago. I'll return them as soon as I can. They are terrible. The cotton padding is thinner, the "stick" is flimsy and bends easily. Almost dangerous when I use in my ears. I might as well be buying from the Dollar Store. What happened, QTip? Why did you cheap out on us and manufacture such an inferior product? SHAME ON YOU!!!

"Q" might have stood for quality years ago, but not anymore. Quality does not seem to be the priority. My household has gone through 3 different 625 count boxes of Q-tips the past couple years and the quality of the Q-tips brand Q-tips are now no better than the Dollar General or Dollar store brand products. The cotton swabs are inconsistently made from one to another and have loose cotton, not enough cotton, too much cotton, it shreds or pulls away from the stick, and the sticks bend easily and are not as strong as they used to be even 5 years ago. My family has been using Q-tip brand Q-tips for over 100 years, but I can no longer justify spending extra money for these over cheaper off brand swabs.

When did the stems become cheap and flexible? They used to be sturdy and easy to use, now the slightest pressure they bend all over the place. These aren't any better than generic brands and cost more. I'm confused by all the recent 4 and 5 star reviews. Have you all even opened and used these new inferior Qtips? Are you working for Unilever?

Could you put more cotton on these sticks. Is there a world cotton shortage? Mabe if they were made in America instead of Turkey the quality would not be so poor. I hope your product could improve before I shop for a different brand. Or is Unilever the only supplier if cotton tip swabs in the world and wont care what the consumer feels about this type of product.

The are horrible quality. They bend like a feather. I wish I hadn't bought 3 huge boxes, they're garbage. I'd rather use the cheap no-name brand than these. Nothing like the ones you buy "not in bulk", they're clearly made a lot cheaper than the ones they sell in regular stores.

Why are Q-Tips such poor quality lately? They used to literally be the best, gold standard cotton swab. Have used them for years to clean my ears daily. In the last year or so, the sticks are more bendy and there is noticeably less cotton on the tips. The cotton on the tips is usually loose and not nice and tightly wound. This leaves more scratchy stick at the tip to scratch or injure your ear or whatever you are cleaning with it. They are just all around sloppier and not as well made. Companies should be ashamed of themselves for selling inferior quality products at an inflated price. Why don't companies make product they can be proud of anymore? Don't you want to be the best at what you make? Have pride in your product? I hate the world we live in now.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I use q tips every. Single. Day. Cleaning and drying my ears after a shower. Smudging makeup. Can never have enough q tips on hand. You get so much for just a little money and I will never not have q tips in my home.

I being using qtips all my life and now on may of 2026 im disappointed one thing I like about qtips is that the stick was strong it didn't bend that easy this new ones i just bought are just like the cheap brand that I don't like im thinking about returning them but I don't know if they gonna give me my money back because of my reason cheap is not good trying to save some money for that I buy the cheap one and save money my self