Home Removal of Skin Tags

While the best form of removal is ALWAYS your doctor, there are some home remedies that supposedly do the trick when it comes to removing pesky skin tags. I have not personally tried any of these (although I did consider it) so I do not know how effective they are. Some of them are rather interesting. Here they are: 1. Tea Tree Oil -- Wash the site of your skin tag with soap and water, and dry it thoroughly. Apply 1 to 3 drops of tea tree oil to the skin tab, rubbing it in to the skin with a Q-tip. Repeat this process three times a day until the skin tag darkens and eventually falls off. 2. Use vitamin E and an adhesive bandage. Break open a vitamin E capsule and wipe some of the liquid onto the skin tag. Cover the tag with a band-aid. The band-aid is supposed to cut off the blood supply to the tag, while the vitamin E helps heal the skin as the tag is sloughed off. Leave the band-aid on for several days before checking whether the skin tag has fallen off. 3.Cover the skin tag with duct tape. Cover the skin tag completely with a small amount of duct tape, keeping it over the skin tag until it the tape loosens. When it loosens, check to see whether the skin tag has either loosened or fallen off. If it hasn't reapply a new piece of duct tape to the skin tag and wait for it to fall off. (This is my least favorite....ewwww) 4.Use over-the-counter remedies such as compound W. 5. Treat skin tags by tying them off with dental floss. Also called ligation, this kills the skin tag by temporarily blocking off blood flow to the area. Take a piece of dental floss and tie around skin tag and pull on it, little by little each day. After a day, you should begin to notice the complexion of your tag changing. After several days, it should dry up entirely and fall off. These are a few of the remedies I have found but as mentioned before your doctor is really the way to go here, bcause infections or excessive scarring could occur. (info from wiki how)