Skin Tags: Home Remedy Solutions We get it: You see a skin tag and you want it gone immediately. You want an at-home remedy that doesn't involve a trip to the doctor's office. While Google might offer you natural skin-tag remedies like tea-tree oil, apple cider vinegar or (yikes) dental floss, Lolis calls BS on such skin tag removal strategies.
"These are just a few of the claims I've seen, but I don't believe any of these home remedies are effective," Lolis says. "I've had patients come into my office with dental floss tied around them, and the skin tags can become more painful and infected."
Just as you wouldn't expect vinegar or tea tree oil to remove skin from your arm, such at-home remedies won't work on skin tags -- which are, essentially, just excess skin. The only true way to remove skin tags is to physically cut, burn or freeze them off, she explains -- which you should definitely not try at home (unless you relish the prospect of infections and scarring).
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