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Creator\u00a0Leo Gerstenzang, the original founder of the Q-tips\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0\u00a0Company, started making them after he saw his wife putting gauze on toothpicks, and he thought a ready-to-use cotton swab would be better. He first named them\u00a0Baby Gays when he started making them in 1923 but changed the name to Q-tips in 1926 and clearly, that stuck.<\/p>\n As for the stick part of the Q-tip, they are not wood. Today\u00a0Q-tips\u00ae cotton swabs are available in paper sticks only. They are biodegradable when composted, according to the Q-Tip FAQs.<\/p>\n The company, now owned by Unilever, says the product will last many years if stored properly\u00a0in a cool, dry place away from dampness and humidity. Hmmm, does that mean I should take them out of the bathroom? Probably. Will I? Probably not.<\/p>\n The Q-tip website has a fun section called the Tip Jar (I know, I’m a sucker for suck puns) and they have fun suggestionsfor using the items as\u00a0painting tools for little ones and for applying facepaint. You can also use them for the crafts themselves. With the snow that keeps falling this winter, it’s the perfect time to make cute snowflakes out of them, like these from BusyBeeKidsCrafts.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n You can find more Q-tip craft ideas here.<\/p>\n Happy swabbing!<\/p>\n YOU MAY ALSO LIKE:<\/strong>\u00a0Facts about Vitamin E and why your body needs it<\/a><\/p>\n PRIOR POST:<\/strong>\u00a0The Adventures of Puss in Boots is on Netflix and I want that cat #StreamTeam<\/p>\n Don\u2019t miss a post! Subscribe to Mom Factually\u2019s completely safe, spam-free email list in the box in the top right corner of the page!<\/p>\n Please like Mom Factually on Facebook<\/a>.<\/strong> You can also find MF on Pinterest<\/a>, Twitter, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Why is a Q-tip called a Q-tip?” my daughter asked yesterday. And I had no idea how Q-tips got their name, so we looked it up. Part of this blog is sharing random facts so that you can answer all your kids’ questions, and this seems to fit firmly in the random fact category, so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1310"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9942,"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions\/9942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>