How To Safely Remove A Skin Tag

Skin tags, or Fibroepithelial polyps, are harmless but sometimes cosmetically unappealing growths of skin that often appear around eyes, armpits, and breasts. While they pose absolutely no health danger, they can be distressing in that they are no fun to look at, and when they grow in certain places, they can also get caught or rub on clothing hats, brassieres, and the like. There are as many reasons to want to remove a skin tag as there are removal methods - each method loudly supported by its proponents. Ultimately, your choice of removal method will depend on your needs, including the location of the tag, your tolerance for pain, your level of squeamishness, and how quickly you need the tag removed.
1) Dermatologist

This is undeniably the most sensible - and most expensive option. A dermatologist has a number of tricks at her disposal for removing an offending skin tag. She may burn, freeze, or cut the tag off, and has methods that can reduce of eliminate scarring.

2) OTC Wart Remover (Salicylic acid)

Though not sold for skin tag removal, Salicylic acid - based wart removers break down the proteins that hold warts together - the same proteins that hold YOU together! Judicious application of these removers to your skin tags should do the trick, but carry a chance of irritating or even burning the surrounding skin, leaving a scarred or darker patch of skin behind.

3) String or Dental Floss

An age-old skin tag removal technique, and one used with success by my dear old mother. Take a length of thread, string, dental floss, or fishing line and tie it into a loop using an overhand knot. Place the loop around the skin tag and tighten the loop down around the tag's base just as tight as it will go. There should be little discomfort. Secure the string in place with a couple more overhand knots and trim the ends as closely as you can. Done properly, this string creates a tourniquet, cutting off the blood supply to the skin tag and killing it. The tag will darken over the course of a week or two and fall off painlessly on its own. The downsides to this approach are, one - that you have to walk around for a could of weeks with a knot of string hanging off of you, and two, that the darkened and dead skin tag is much more visible while you wait for it to fall off.

4) Freeze

An OTC wart removal tool intended to FREEZE warts off can work on skin tags, too, but carries the same scarring and irritation risk as Salicylic acid. Further, I wouldn't recommend using these solutions around your eyes UNDER ANY CONDITION. Frozen eyeballs are bad news.

5) Nail Clippers or scissors

Too gruesome an approach for many, others have no hesitation around taking edged objects to themselves. If this describes you, you may consider cutting off your own skin tags. Sterilize the clippers of scissors well, using either rubbing alcohol or a good hot flame, and go to town. The downsides here are potential scarring, possible regrowth if you don't get it close enough to the base, infection, and overall ickiness. Not my ideal method.

6) YANK

I have a dear friend who swears by this method. She just grabs onto the darn thing and yanks it off. This method tends to scar a bit and bleed a lot, and is not recommended at all. I bring it up only to caution you to attempt this approach only with skin tags that consist of a rounded bit on the end of a thin stalk. Anything anchored more enthusiastically to your body might not let go easily.

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