Ear Cleaning and Personal Care ASMR Sounds
Ear cleaning, cotton swabs and massage, recorded as if someone were looking after you. Four to try below.
Samples
Tap a sound to play it on a loop, and tap it again to stop. Headphones help, especially for close-mic triggers.
These are 4 of the 18 sounds in this group. Tingles ASMR has 255 in all. See what else is in the app.
What’s in this group
Personal care sounds recreate someone looking after you: cleaning your ears, washing your hair, giving you a shave.
- Ear cleaning: Light Picking, Intense Picking, Cotton Swabs, Tissue Clean, Powder Sponge, Ear Helicopter and Eardrum Pulse
- Massage: Ear Massage and Head Massage
- Barber and bathroom: Hair Wash, Shaving Cream, Razor, Scissor, Bath Bombs
- Body sounds: Heartbeat, Heart and Stomach
Ear cleaning is one of the biggest ASMR genres in Japan, Korea and China, where it is often called by its Japanese name, mimi-kaki. The Light and Intense Picking tracks are a good way to find out which pace suits you.
Why personal attention works
Personal attention is the most popular kind of ASMR video, and there’s an emerging explanation for why. Flockton, Preston and McCall proposed in 2025 that sounds this close make the brain expect gentle touch, and that expectation is what calms you. In plain terms, the tingles may be your nervous system getting ready to be touched. It is a hypothesis, not a settled fact, and the triggers guide sets out the evidence for it so far.
The body sounds work differently. Heartbeat and Stomach aren’t “attention” triggers. They are close, slow and steady, and many people find them grounding to fall asleep to.
How to use personal care sounds
- For sleep: Ear Massage and Head Massage are slow and even. The app’s Ear Massage mix pairs Ear Massage with Tissue Clean.
- For tingles: the Eardrum Triggers mix layers Cotton Swabs with Light and Intense Picking, and Eardrum Helicopter puts the Ear Helicopter sound over a crackling fire and wind.
- For a spa session: Calm Waters Spa combines Bath Bombs, Hair Wash and a candle with a slow ear eating track.
- Close relatives: brushing and the breathing tracks in mouth sounds.
Sources
- Flockton, J. R., Preston, C. E. J., & McCall, C. (2025). The Proximity Prediction Hypothesis: How predictive coding of CT-touch explains Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response and its therapeutic applications. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 19, 1688172. DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2025.1688172
In the app
Every sample on this page comes from Tingles ASMR, free on iOS and Android. In the app you can layer up to 10 sounds into a mix (no limit with Premium), set each volume, play ready-made mixes, and set a timer. With Premium, Sleep Mode fades the sound out gently instead.
More ear cleaning and personal care sounds in the app: Hair Wash · Heartbeat · Razor · Scissor · Shaving Cream · Ear Intense Picking · Ear Tissue Clean · Bath Bombs · Heart · Stomach · Ear Helicopter · Ear Powder Sponge · Ear Eardrum Pulse · Ear Picking
Ready-made mixes with these sounds: Eardrum Triggers · Deep Ear Cleaning · Ocean Diver · Eardrum Helicopter · Mystic Whisper · Calm Waters Spa · Ear Massage · Hair Care · Foam & Blade · Internal Resonations · Eardrum Pulses · Misted Powder Facial
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