Mack's Ear Care Ultra Soft Foam Earplugs, 50 Pair

These earplugs are awesome. I am writing this review after 1 day of night use of these earplugs. Here's what I would like to share:-Procedure and Method off inserting the earplugs correctly:- Clean your hands before you use these earplugs. Afterwards, take one earplug in your hand. You have to then apply pressure on it with your fingers and thumbs evenly by rolling it and shrinking it to the size of a cylinder or a bullet. Take care while rolling and shrinking it. Do not apply too much pressure while rolling or else creases or wrinkles might form on the earplug, which can decrease it's sound blocking efficacy, instead press slowly and carefully till it forms the desired cylinder/bullet shape. After the desired shape is formed, immediately lift the top of your ear to enlarge the inner opening of your ear and insert and push the earplug into the ear deep down but slowly. If you only insert the earplug halfway or only a little bit then it will not be able to do it's job properly, so push the earplug deep and subsequently hold the earplug from the outside for a minute. By holding the earplug in this position, it allows the earplug to inflate itself inside the ear canal and totally seal it from the inside to block the outside noses effectively. Follow this same process for inserting the second earplug too. Insert the earplugs one at a time. Remember, once the desired shape is formed after pressing and rolling the earplug, without wasting a second, immediately insert it in the ear or else it will start inflating once again in your hand.Sound blocking efficacy:- I kept these earplugs in my ears for the whole night. They are very soft and after inserting them in the ears, it didn't feel too heavy or irritating. With passing time, I am pretty sure, I will get used to them, having them inside my ears. After inserting the earplugs, all outside noises were blocked by almost 90 to 95%. I could barely hear the blaring noises outside my house which falls on a busy road. Inside my room, I couldn't hear the humming noise of my air conditioner. My spouse snores at night in a medium range. Being a light sleeper, I used to wake up due to this snoring noise but after putting these earplugs, approximately 85% of the snoring noise got blocked. What I heard was a very faint and negligible snoring noise and that too got completely blocked when I slept on my sideways. Basically, I am a sideways sleeper and this helped me too. I woke up in the morning feeling refreshed and all I could do is to thank these wonderful earplugs for doing it's job perfectly.Procedure for taking out the earplugs from the ears:- While taking out these earplugs from your ears, make sure that you don't pull them out directly and rapidly or else you may damage your ears. Instead, take them out by twisting and turning them slowly. Once they are out, put them in a seperate sealed small container. Do not put them in the plastic container in which you received them or else they will get mixed with the other unused earplugs. As per what I have researched, one pair of these earplugs will last for atleast 5 to 6 uses which makes them economical.Precautions:- 1) After you take out one pair from the packed plastic container for use, reseal the container properly with the foil provided and close the cap of the plastic container tightly so as to not let air pass inside the container or else the unused earplugs inside might get spoiled. 2) After using the earplugs, do not wash them with water or any other liquid or try to clean them in any way. Just put them seperately in a small, sealed container meant only for storing them. 3) once you feel that the noises are not getting blocked well and the earplugs are not holding tight inside the ears and are falling off continuously even after inserting them properly, then it's time to take out a new pair for use.In all, personally I feel that these earplugs by Mack's are the best ones amongst the lot. Always use these ultrasoft earplugs only as they are very soft and hence it doesn't hurt or irritate your ears.PS:- If you don't follow the correct method of inserting these earplugs into your ears then you will not get the desired result and then you will end up in only criticizing the earplugs for it's non performance, so kindly follow the method as shown by me above. You can also find these instructions on the label of the plastic container in which these earplugs are packed.I hope this information will help everyone who want to buy good earplugs.Regards.

Very Useful Product.Soft, comfortable, functional.Absolute necessity for ear care, to reduce harmful effects of construction site noise, traffic noise, concert loud noise etc

This product does its job with 100% effectiveness but not comfortable.

This product is great. Easy to useAnd block perfect amount of sound

The worst product I ever bought! Total money waste ! There is no way to give zero star , so one I have to give one star, though it is not deserve not a single star!

Awesome quality, it blocks almost 80-90 percent of noise. Helpful for sleeping studying without distraction. See youtube videos on how to insert it properly otherwise you won't get best results.

The media could not be loaded. I've tried silicon ear plugs before.These are far better in terms of comfort and sound dampening ability.Be careful when removing, it should be removed slowly.Read the instructions on the back of the box, you'll be fine.A bit expensive, but worth it. I reuse it until it becomes too waxy or too soft, and store it in a small box when not using to keep it clean.After 6 months:Still find it very useful. I live very close to the road (listen to the video). One issue, inside of ear feels moist after removing them. Could be sweat. Rinse with soap foam and warm water when you shower. Makes it dry and feels clean. Q tips don't work to remove moisture. Doctor the same for ear cleaning without soap.

I’ve been using earplugs for 25+ years, so I should know: These earplugs (Mack’s) are great value for money but.. OK, let’s see:Pros: (a) High noise cancellation when you push them all the way in (b) Contoured, so it’s easy to push them inCons: (a) Even though the material is soft, they press *way* too hard against the ear canal if you get them all the way in!! (b) If you try, say, inserting only half and a bit, the noise cancellation drops drastically. (c) The material is *smooth* on the outside, which shouldn’t ideally be the case; what happens is they “stick” to your ear—so you need to be really careful and slow when you’re pulling them out. (d) The plus in the pack of 50 are not consistent; you might pick two and they’ll be fine—and the next two will be too tight or uncomfortable or something like that.On the whole, a great buy *depending on* the sensitivity of your ear canal and the level of noise cancellation you need—so until you try them, you won’t know if your money is being well spent. For some people, these might be too uncomfortable; other people will do just fine with lower-noise-cancellation earplugs.My take? There’s no beating E-A-R Classic. I used them for a couple of decades before my stock ran out; I bought these just because they’re contoured, but... the contouring doesn’t seem to help.