Resorting To Home Remedies For Skin Tags

Those unsightly skin tags that hang from your skin have no adverse health implications for pretty much more than half the world population who get them as they age. For most people, they occur in places that can be covered by typical clothing styles and need not get in the way of your looks.

And it’s not as if they are always there. Some die and eventually fall off without you bothering about it. But in many cases, they can grow conspicuously where you don’t want them, like in eyelids, noses, earlobes and around the neck and can be quite persistent enough to merit attention. While there’s simply no known medication to cure skin tags, most of them are small enough to get rid off with some basic home bound procedures.

Excising With Scissors

Cutting off small skin tags is basically a surgical out-patient procedure performed by a dermatologist or a competent nurse which can be done at home using a pair of scissors. Not a textile, paper or hair scissor pair but use a sharp surgical pair sterilized in hot water with alcohol and left to dry.

You can do it yourself or if the skin tag is located where it will be more of a challenge to see , have a family member do the cutting. Cut the thin stalk close to the skin being careful not to wound the skin. Do it in a well-lit room and you use a sterilized pair of tweezers to lift the skin tag off when cut.

Skin tags bleed and will rival a needle prick in pain so be prepared with cotton swabs dipped in Hydrogen Peroxide and apply antibiotic ointment on the affected area after the cut. You could dab some lidocaine balm over it before cutting or simply press ice over it to numb the sensation. Bandage the area and give it a day or two to heal. To reduce blemishes or scarring, use a Vitamin E formulated ointment topically applied.

Ligation

Cutting the blood supply to the skin is one sure way to kill it causing it gradually dry and fall off. Use a length of dental floss or thread noosed tight around the skin tag and after 2-3 days, you should be able to see it discolor, shrivel and die. You can just wait to let it fall of our scrub it off on your next bath.

The procedure may leave some blemish so don’t forget to dab some Vitamin E ointment over it to lessen the blemish. If you have more than one skin tag to remove, do it one at a time.

Nail Polish Method

Clear nail polish won’t just beautify your nails but it is known to shrink and dry skin tags in some people more than in others to make them easy to scrub off. Apply a coat over it and leave it for a few days to check if it works for you.

Herbal And Kitchen Mix

A mixture of castor oil and baking soda blended into a thick paste applied over the skin tag is known to block air from getting into the area to dry and kill and skin tag, Alternatively, use the woodland herb bloodroot which is a poisonous herb that has caustic properties to chemical burn the skin tag. Just don’t use it over sensitive areas like genital folds and mucosal skin like the mouth or vagina, not even on the eyelids if you have them there.

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