How do you get the wax out then?
It will be shaken out following several days' instillation & massage.
You may use tissue, and perhaps a qtip***,
to remove that which you can see, but once you go into the canal, you aren't removing wax, you are probably packing it.
(***most people are not careful enough; a good guideline if you insist on trying qtips is, to stop if you cannot see where the tip is about to go)
If debris is not shaken out after a few days, or if other signs occur (pain, swelling, odor, etc etc), I suggest further work should be done by a person skilled in that procedure, and a person with an otoscope.
Tim, color is not a reliable diagnostic of what is in the ear. (I have seen 'black' with mites, ticks, pseudomonas, yeast, allergies, hypothyroidism etc)
To know what is in an ear, we do cytology, culture etc.
PS many conditions can cause the ceruminous glands to go nuts, producing an abundance of wax...so if you know you have a lot of wax, consider testing for such things - same in humans....when I was young & had bad allergies, my ears would plug with wax until I treated the allergies.
And a confounding issue is that excess wax from any of these problems can be a wonderful growth medium for yeast, especially.
Yep, swimming is high on the list of contributors of ear problems.