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Puritan Swabs & Applicators

Puritan is a name clinicians reach for when a swab has to perform consistently — whether it's collecting a wound culture, applying a topical medication, or prepping a small site. This collection brings together Puritan's cotton-tipped applicators, specimen-collection swabs, swabsticks, and wooden cuticle sticks in the lengths, tip materials, and sterility grades that labs, clinics, and procedure rooms actually order.

The most common question buyers ask is which tip and shaft to choose, and it comes down to the task. For general application and cleaning, the Puritan Cotton Tipped Applicators with wood shafts (803-WC in 3-inch and 826-WC swabsticks in 6-inch) are the everyday workhorse — non-sterile, absorbent, and economical for high-volume use. When you need a sterile swab for a hospital setting, the Cotton Swab with Wooden Handle (25-806 1WC) delivers a sterile cotton tip for clean-technique procedures. And the plain applicator sticks (809) give you a bare wood shaft for custom compounding or manual applications where you supply your own material.

Specimen collection has its own requirements. The Puritan Calgiswab Tipped Applicators (25-806 1PA) use a calcium alginate tip on a semi-flexible polystyrene handle — the alginate dissolves in specific transport media to release captured organisms, which is why they're preferred for certain bacterial cultures over standard cotton. The 6-inch length reaches narrow or deep collection sites without contaminating the shaft.

Beyond clinical swabs, the range also includes practical items like the Puritan Cuticle/Orange Sticks (2910) — 7-inch double-beveled wood sticks used in nail care and light manipulation tasks.

Puritan is manufactured by the Puritan Medical Products Company, a long-established U.S. maker of single-use collection and specimen products. Explore related respiratory offerings under Puritan Bennett.