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Not tranquillisers - no one benefits from making their life into a cotton wool ball.

As the eyes are so sensitive, it is best if the patient cleans them himself, using damp cotton wool balls.

It's just as soft as pads or cotton wool balls and is thick, extra-absorbent for mopping up jobs and it won't fray either.

'I haven't thought about it,' she lied, shielding her eyes with one hand as she tilted her head back to look at clouds like cotton wool balls racing overhead.

The "Mark II" "microbombs" had Casio digital watches as the timers, stabilizers that looked like cotton wool balls, and an undetectable quantity of nitroglycerin as the explosive.

Eight measures each of crushed coriander seed and powdered orris root; one measure each ground cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves; three measures of dried lavender and a cotton wool ball soaked in geranium or rose essential oil.