Review (2/5): Weak sticks
These cotton swabs have pushed the limit of lowering quality beyond what I can accept. The length of these swabs is 1/8" shorter than the traditional size, though it's got about the same amount of cotton as most Chinese swabs. There's still about four out of a hundred that will snap due to wood grain weakness, but I understand that's inherent in the wood, itself, as wood is a natural product and has inconsistencies that you need to accept if you're going to use the product. The problem with these swabs is that they come on a wooden stick the thickness of which is a whole, new low. I've been using cotton swabs on wooden sticks for three decades and I've never before met wooden sticks this thin and weak before. With these swabs you've got a high risk of breakage even with the sticks that don't have wood grain issues simply because of how thin and weak they've made the sticks. If you only intend to use swabs for extremely light pressure work these are fine, but they can't handle the pressure of normal or average tasks. They've skimpped on quality a little too much for me to recommend this product. I would not buy them again.