It was gross enough when Shrek pulled wax from his ear and molded it into a candle ( check out the scene here), but then my daughter, inspired by the movie, wanted to know if ear wax really could be ...

Hear the word ‘wax’, and most minds turn immediately to candles and ears. Some may even combine the two, recalling that scene in Shrek where the eponymous ogre retrieves a sludgy wick from his own ear ...