How To Get Rid of Skin Tags

Effective home removal of skin tags

How To Get Rid of Skin Tags Quickly and Easily at Home

Hey everyone,

Welcome to my brand new website dedicated to getting rid of pesky unsightly skin tags.

If you’ve found your way here through the labyrinth of skin tag related chaff out there in cyberspace, you probably have a skin tag (or tags) and want to know what your options are for treating it in the comfort of your home.

I’ve been afflicted skin tags myself and consequently have tried just about every treatment there is available, so in this article I’m going to share with you what works and what doesn’t.

First of all…

It’s important to know that skin tags are not harmful and will not cause you any pain (unless you snag one on an item of clothing or jewellery). If your growth is causing you pain, you should get it checked with your doctor as soon as you can.

Contrary to what some websites may tell you, skin tags do not usually fall off of their own accord – if you don’t take action to get rid of your skin tag, then it will be with you for life.

The best skin tag home removal technique…

The best way to remove a skin tag is to tie a piece of fishing line tightly around it, thereby cutting off its blood supply. Within a few days, the skin tag will turn black and simply fall off.

This skin tag treatment has a near-perfect success rate – the only time it doesn’t work is when a skin tag is too small to tie the line around it.

Be sure to use a double knot so that it doesn’t undo itself easily and snip off the ends of the line with a pair of scissors. Also, ensure that the line is tight enough to cut off the circulation of blood in the skin tag – it will sting a little at first but the discomfort will soon subside.

Fishing line is the best material to use when getting rid of skin tags because of its strength, however if you don’t have any available then a piece of cotton or dental floss can be used instead. Although others have had success with cotton, when I tried I kept snapping the cotton which was a little irritating

Click here if the skin tag hasn’t dropped off within a week.

Other skin tag treatments…

If your skin tag is small and if you are particularly brave, you can cut off the skin tag with scissors a knife or a pair of nail-clippers.

Personally, this not something I would recommend because it hurts like crazy and bleeds for a long time afterwards but many other people have had success with this method. I think that the loudest I have yelled in my life was when I cut off one of my own skin tags with a pair of nail clippers (but I’m a bit of a wimp and I’m sure your pain threshold is much higher than mine lol).

If you decide to use the ‘home surgery’ method to remove your skin tag you must ensure that the cutting tool you use is sterilized by putting it in boiling water or rubbing alcohol/surgical spirit beforehand. Sterilizing the skin around your tag with a little rubbing alcohol before you make the cut is also a good idea.

Finally, have plenty of tissue paper and plasters available to control the bleeding after you have removed the skin tag.

Other treatments that are available from your doctor are surgery, cryotherapy and electrotherapy however they can be quite costly so you’ll have to weigh up whether getting rid of the skin tag is worth the price. Remember, skin tags are harmless and the only reason to remove them is for aesthetic purposes. Occasionally a skin tag may grow to particularly large proportions that it can cause discomfort and you will have to seek advice from your doctor.

Skin tag surgery involves injecting a little local anaesthetic and cutting it off and then cauterising (burning) or suturing (stitching) the wound. The procedure is pretty routine and although it may sound painful, it really isn’t.

The cryotherapy method involves freezing the skin tag, which kills all the skin cells in it causing to drop off.

Electrotherapy is a similar technique to cryotherapy but uses electricity to kill the skin cells with heat instead.

Skin tag removal techniques that don’t work…

There are a number of skin tag removal products on the market that claim to get rid of skin tags using herbal remedies or various mixes of natural ingredients.

From my own personal experience, these products do not generally work. Although some people may have successfully got rid of their skin tags by using them, they are hit-and-miss at best.

I have tested three such products out – I’ve left the brand names out intentionally – and they turned the skin tag a dark red color, which made it even more noticeable. It then scabbed over and when the scab dropped off the skin tag was still there!

Rubbing massage oils or various homemade concoctions of lemon, wheatgrass, tea tree oil etc onto a skin tag is another method that a lot of people talk about but sadly, in my experience, they didn’t work.

Skin tag prevention…

Unfortunately there is no sure-fire way of stopping skin tags developing.

This is because medical professionals are not 100% sure why the develop in the first place and why some people are more prone to getting them than others.

There is a genetic element – if your parents had skin tags the you are more likely to get them. Also, women are more likely to suffer from skin tags than men. Other groups that contain a high percentage of skin tag sufferers are pregnant women, the elderly and people who are overweight.

The latest studies suggest that skin tags are caused by friction against the skin, so wearing loose-fitting clothing is perhaps the only skin tag prevention advice that has merit.

To sum up…

If you have a skin tag, the best way of removing it is by tying a piece of fishing line tightly around and waiting a few days for it to drop off.

Smaller skin tags can be removed by cutting them off yourself (or getting a friend to do it for you) and larger skin tags should be removed by your doctor.

If you have any questions or comments, please don’t hesitate to email me via dan@howtogetridofskintags.info or leave your message in the comments section below.

Wishing you a happy and skin tag free future

Danny