How to clean the speaker slots on the Airpods?

How to clean the speaker slots on the Airpods?

This might sound disgusting but my AirPods have earwax in the speaker slots of the actual earpiece. Do you know any way of cleaning it properly? I don’t want to use my finger nail because that is gross and I tried using my special electronic cleaning liquid but that just made it worse. Anything would be helpful.

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I usually clean headphone speaker (metal cover that catches dirt and earwax ) with toothpicks