You Use Them For Cleaning Everything From A To Z, But Where Did They Start?
The convenient little swab with the big Q in its name got its start nearly one hundred years ago. The Q in Q-tips stands for quality as in, "quality tips. Q-tips were first conceived by the Polish-born American Leo Gerstenzang, who observed his wife sticking bits of cotton to toothpicks. He decided... Sign in to see full entry.