How to Remove Skin Tags Yourself Using Home Remedies

Growth of benign skin on characteristics location of body including eyelids, base of neck, underarms, and groin folds that looks like a small piece of small hanging skin is called skin tag and this article will show how to remove skin tags yourself at home using effective home remedies and tell you true facts about skin tag removal at home.

What Causes Skin Tags

Skin tags usually occurs because of friction, mainly occur on neck, under arms, groin folds and eyelids where skin tends to rub against clothing or other skin. Studies show that people having heavy weight and diabetes patients have more possibilities of growing skin tags.

Stag tag is just a growth of extra skin in the form of smooth or curly fleshy bump (flesh color or brown) attached to main skin by a small stalk.  Skin tags also called skin tabs are generally harmless but can irritate when rubbed with clothes or other skin. Whatever be the cause is, almost everyone wants to know how to remove skin tags at home especially when they are visible.

How to Remove Skin Tags at Home?

Generally, skin tags are harmless and need not to remove till it bothers you in some way and there is no actual medication to get rid of skin tags. Skin Tags can be treated physically only by cutting it off, freezing with liquid nitrogen and by burning it off with laser which need small surgery and doctor’s care.

Some creams and acidic lotions are also there in market promising skin tag removal that actually burn this extra skin to make it dead and skin tag fall automatically but it’s advised to take special care before applying.

But Skin Tags can also be removed by cutting blood supply to extra skin tissues. There are effective homes remedies given below that can help you to remove skin tags yourself at home safely.

Home Remedies to Remove Skin Tags Yourself

There are many ways and home remedies suggested in other web articles to remove skin tags by using ingredients like Vinegar, Garlic, and Duck Tape etc but these ingredients are actually effective to remove dead skin in case of Warts and Calluses but Skin Tag is a live skin and these ingredients can’t help to remove it.

As mention above, it needs physical treatment to remove skin tags and you can remove skin tags yourself at home also with home remedies mentioned below:

Skin Tag Removal at Home by Cutting Blood Supply

• Skin Tag can be removed by cutting blood supply. Just take a strong and thin sewing thread or floss and tie down tightly surrounding the base of skin tag with a knot and leave it. This procedure will prevent blood to reach the tissues of skin tag that further cause skin tag to die without blood.
• The skin tag will start turning black slowly and probably will fall after couple of days. Keep repeating this procedure until your skin tag fall off.
• Don’t know you believe or not, but hair of horse tail is really effective to remove skin tags, can’t explain the scientific reason behind it but people of Indian villages use hair of horse tail to tie down skin tags and it really deliver results.

Skin Tag Removal at Home by cutting it off

If you dare, you can remove skin tag yourself at home by cutting it off also. Just take a sharp and sterilized surgery blade cut skin tag off from the base and treat the spot as you treat a normal wound. But be careful and don’t cut your main skin of surrounding area and apply first aid immediately to prevent infection and permanent scar.

It’s bit risky to cut skin tag at home as it can lead to skin damage, cause skin infection if not treated immediately, can left a wound that take time to heel and also can leave a permanent scar. So, it’s advised to visit doctors to cut off skin tag.

A person who tends to have skin tags because of internal cause can grow them again after some time. So, these home remedies may not help them to get of them permanently. If this extra hanging flesh really bothers you, it’s always better to get doctor’s care. It’s all about how to remove skin tags yourself at home using home remedies.