Leo Gerstenzang: The Polish Inventor of “Baby-Gays"

The everyday hygiene product you probably own

Christopher Kokoski
4 min readDec 21, 2021

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Cotton Swabs — Leo Gerstenzang-The Polish Inventor of “Baby-Gays”
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PPolish American inventor Leo Gerstenzang’s life changed in 1923 when he watched his wife clean his baby’s ears. A single moment, a single insight, and a single action changed everything. He went on to invent a personal hygiene product that an estimated 400 million people use every single day.

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Christopher Kokoski

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