SAMANTHA BRIX PHOTO | Simply for Therapuetic Wellness opened in January in downtown Rocky Point.

If you’d like the wax cleaned out of your ears, downtown Rocky Point has just the place for you.

Simply for Therapeutic Wellness opened on Broadway in January. The massage therapy and wellness center offers medical massages, waxing, manicures, facials, reflexology and even ear candling.

Owner Donna McCarthy, a certified medical massage therapist, said she performs an ear waxing by inserting one end of a linen-wrapped, 1 foot-long candle into a client’s ear. She lights the other end of the candle, which acts like a vortex as it sucks wax out of the ear. The process benefits clients who snore loudly or suffer from sinus infections, ear aches and soar throats, she said.

“Everyone’s questioning the ear candling, which I think is funny,” Ms. McCarthy said.

Though many customers enter the store unfamiliar with ear candling, Ms. McCarthy said many end up giving the ear wax removal a whirl.

Ms. McCarthy is excited to move into downtown Rocky Point.

“I love the area,” she said. “[The business] fights right into the little town.”

Her establishment is the first of two businesses to open in downtown Rocky Point this year. Bagels-N-A Hole Lot More opened last Wednesday at the corner of Broadway and Prince Road.

Both business replace businesses that were shut down following major arrests. At House of Tattooing, formerly in the same storefront Ms. McCarthy’s business now occupies, Pagan gang members allegedly hatched a plan to kill rival Hell’s Angels gang members and were later arrested on charges of murder conspiracy among others, according to federal prosecutors. Bagels-N-A Hole Lot More moved into the building that formerly housed Ramirez Deli, which local authorities shut down in 2009 after an illegal gambling raid.

Councilwoman Jane Bonner said the two new businesses are welcome additions to the community and have replaced “two of Rocky Point’s biggest eye sores.”

The businesses are “an investment in downtown Rocky Point, providing the types of amenities that people have wanted and, at the same time, revitalizing the area in one fell swoop,” Ms. Bonner said.

She said she’s received positive resident feedback regarding both new businesses.

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