Category Archives: Sleeping Earplugs

A good night’s sleep before Christmas Day

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During this time of year, children are brimming with excitement because Santa will soon be visiting, giving wonderful gifts that will have them smiling from ear to ear. Christmas Eve can be quite a struggle for parents whose children can’t contain their excitement as Christmas Day can start during the early hours of the morning.

Christmas is a long day, with most of your time being spent entertaining guests and your children, whilst ensuring the turkey doesn’t burn and the vegetables are cooked to perfection. A lot of energy is needed throughout the day.

Bearing all of this in mind, you need to ensure you have a good night’s sleep for the chance to let Christmas Day run smoothly, but how?

At Ear Plug Shop we believe sleep and snoring ear plugs hold the answer. Sleeping ear plugs are great for blocking outside noises and with the addition of a sleeping mask, you’re sure to fall asleep and remain in deep slumber throughout the night.

We recommend you try:

Sleeping Ear Plugs

Macks Ultra SafeSound Earplugs

Macks Pillow Soft Earplugs

Alpine SleepSoft

Other Sleep Aids

Macks Dreamweaver Sleep Mask

Macks Shut Eye Shade Sleep Aid Kit

Macks Dreamgirl Sleep Mask

Driving Home for Christmas

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If you are planning to have Christmas away from home, either in another country (New York seems to be a favourite destination) or a long drive to the relatives, getting the little ones to sleep can be challenging.

When flying you can experience some ear discomfort. A change in pressure from inside the cabin can cause some discomfort and make your ears pop. Using flying & travelling ear plugs can help relieve some of that discomfort and allow you to relax. There are also ear plugs for flying that are suitable for children.

Driving with little ones in the back can also be a nightmare, especially if they are restless and can’t sleep. With a pair of ear plugs for children they will be able to block out the sounds of ongoing traffic, giving them the peace and quiet to fall fast asleep.

Snoring Grandparents: Block them out with Ear plugs

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Every Christmas Eve the grandparents stay the night to enjoy Christmas day with the children. Watching them open presents they have received from Santa and later in the day opening presents from the family.

However, the spare room shares a patrician wall with my bedroom and they have a tendency to snore quite a lot. This makes it quite hard for my husband and me to sleep.  The children are already very excited about Christmas so being woken up in the early hours seems likely.

So to make it easier for us this year I have bought some sleeping ear plugs. It will block the sounds coming from the spare room and allow us to sleep peacefully, well until Santa comes that is. Hopefully, come Christmas Eve these ear plugs will work their magic and my husband and I can have a good night’s sleep, revived for the day’s activities.

Sleeping ear plugs: Retain a healthy lifestyle with ear plugs

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When it comes to healthy living, it is not always what you are eating, how much exercise you are doing, but it how you are treating and protecting yourself. Hearing is the key to a healthy lifestyle, any damage to it can have an effect on your balance as well as your communication skills, with further effect on speech.

Even when you are sleeping your hearing can be subjected to damaging levels of noise which can in turn have a permanent effect. Sleeping plays a vital part in our life, it gives our bodies time to rest and when in REM sleep allows our body and mind to recover for the days activities, building your energy up for the next day’s event. Sleeping ear plugs are ideal to wear when in bed especially if you live on a busy main road.

They are also convenient too.

If you have a snoring partner who is constantly disturbing your sleep these sleeping ear plugs for sleeping will allow you to block the noise from entering your ear canal, but if you are worried you will not be able to hear alarms, such as fire alarms there are ear plugs available that have special filters that make sure you hear the noises you want to, but still block the potentially dangerous ones.

Ear plugs are an ideal solution when wanting to retain a healthy lifestyle especially if you are a light sleeper and can’t afford too many disturbances to get your much need REM sleep.

How Fashionable!

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Ear plugs are an essential item to have with you at all times especially when wanting to give your hearing the best protection available. This doesn’t mean they have to be ugly to look at, nor does it mean you can’t feel like a fashionista and these JenGen Blue Tassel Ear Plugs prove that. They look just like the sleeping ear plugs Audrey Hepburn wore in the film Breakfast at Tiffany’s and priced at less than £6 that is what I would call a fashion steal.

These Holly Golightly ear plugs will allow you to get more beauty sleep, blocking snoring from partners and as they are reusable these classic extra long blue tasselled ear plugs will provide you with hours of comfortable hearing protection for many nights.

Not only are these sweet ear plugs featured on one of the greatest Audrey Hepburn films especially for fashion and style, but Vogue have also taken inspiration from the film and recreated the Breakfast at Tiffany’s look in a new photo shoot featuring Anne Hathaway.

Can ear plugs damage your hearing?

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Recently I have been hearing a lot of concerns over sleeping with ear plugs in, worrying that it may cause permanent hearing damage, but getting aggravated that they can’t retain a good night’s sleep. Summer is a season we always happy to welcome back, but we constantly moan about the lack of sleep we get due to the birds and early sunrises.

There are two simple solutions to this problem; sleep masks and ear plugs, and while I’m here I will put these concerns to rest with a few quick facts:

FACT 1: Sleeping and snoring ear plugs are designed for you to sleep with them in, they are perfectly safe to sleep in.

FACT 2: It has been shown in studies that long-term of foam ear plugs can cause wax to build up

FACT 3: If you constantly wear to ear plugs to get a good night sleep, maybe you have to block out the sound of your partner’s snore, custom ear plugs are the ideal choice for you, they are easy to clean, comfortable to wear and reduce having a build up of wax.

Sleeping better with ear plugs

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It is important for us to retain 7-9 hours of sleep every night to allow our bodies to rejuvenate from our daily activities. However, more people who are having problems with sleep are relying on sleeping longer than usual to make them feel more refreshed, but it is having opposite effects. This is not a good way to maintain a healthy lifestyle, so instead why not turn to simple ways to improve your sleeping. It is better for you to sleep smarter than it is for you to be sleeping longer.

Use earplugs to help block to sound of a snoring partner or the constant noise of ongoing traffic. These sleep and snoring earplugs are designed specifically to be worn in bed and are comfortable to wear. They are designed to mould to the shape of your ear to help block or reduce the noise, depending on the attenuation. Having earplugs mould to the shape of your ear, ensures that they will not fall out during the night, they generate maximum comfort and outstanding performance, leaving you feel rested and ready for the next day’s activities.

If the noise isn’t what is keeping you up at night and it is the nights becoming longer, blocking out the sun couldn’t be made any easier. Use an eye shade next time and be amazed at how much quality sleep you will get. They are comfortable to wear and no matter what position you like to sleep in, you can be sure that the mask will not move to allow any light in. There are also some great packs that include not only an eye mask, but also earplugs. It is the essential kit for a good night’s sleep.

Get a good night’s sleep

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Sleep is a critical when trying to maintain a healthy lifestyle. You are expected to have 7-9 hours sleep per night to allow your body to rest and restore itself after the day’s activities. This can be extremely hard to maintain especially if you are a light sleeper when the nights are becoming a lot lighter or you have a partner who likes to snore.

It is estimated that over 1 billion people, with the US, Germany and the UK estimating to represent over 70 million snores alone with 60% of snorers being male whilst 40% are women. So if we take into account that there are over 1 billion snores out there and say for arguments sake they have significant others, there are also over 1 billion people who suffer from a bad night’s sleep due to their partners sleeping. This brings to the total of over 2 billion people in the world that do not have the much needed sleep their bodies require.

A simple yet effective way to help those with getting a good night’s sleep is the use of sleep and snoring earplugs. Not only will these earplugs allow you to block out the sounds of your snoring partner, but also the sound of ongoing traffic and other noisy factors.

For those who can’t sleep due to the nights getting lighter a simple solution is wearing a night shade. I have found they are extremely comfortable to wear as I even forgot I had it on and woke up thinking it was still late at night.

Hearing festivals in all their glory

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It is the festival season and what better way to celebrate music and enjoy great atmospheres, but the sounds emitted can have a serious effect on your hearing. It has been featured in the Music Festival Survival Guide that earplugs are one of the essential items for you to take with you in your backpack.

Here are some reasons why:

Screaming fans

Yes the band you are seeing are amazing musicians, yes they maybe heartthrobs, but is it necessary for all the screaming? If you are lucky to be close to the main stage as well, not only could you be damaging your hearing with the volume of the screams but also the noise coming from the speakers.  Musician earplugs could help you have an excellent time at the festival as it will decrease the level of sound, but still allowing you to have a conversation with your fellow festivalers.

Techno music at 5am

People sometimes like to party into the early hours of the morning and that can mean the campsite could get extremely loud. If you like to up at a reasonable time to see your favourite bands that are starting fairly early in the day, sleeping earplugs could be the solution. With the help of these earplugs they will allow you to drift into sleep and have a good night’s rest without having to put up with the disturbance outside.

Spectators thinking they can form a band themselves

After hearing their favourite bands playing, some spectators become inspired and believe that they too can become the greatest rock band in the world, whereas a matter of fact they are pretty rubbish. Simple noise reduction earplugs could help you block the sounds of dreary vocals pretending to be Rod Stewart whilst still allowing you to hear the professionals and hear the conversation your friends are trying to have.

Stop Snoring!

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Do you snore? What about others in your household? If you or a loved one snores, it may be more than a minor annoyance. Let’s look at the facts behind snoring.

The basic mechanism of snoring is a partial obstruction of the airway by soft tissue at the back of the throat. When the person falls asleep, soft tissue at the back of the throat falls over the trachea. The snoring noise you hear is the rattle of the soft tissue.

A person who suffers from sleep apnea will actually stop breathing for a short time until they are startled awake by the lack of oxygen. If you ever hear your partner make gasping noises followed by a loud snort sound, this is probably what’s occurred.

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