Natural Remedies for Warts: ACV, Banana Peel and More

Hydrogen Peroxide

Posted by Ben (Portland, OR) on 01/25/2007
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Great site here. It reminded me of the "accidental" cure I gave myself using H202. I had warts on the bottom of my right foot for months. The doctor would freeze them off and I was given cream. They would always come back. One day in the bathroom I was looking at them and said, "what the heck!". I poured H202 (the 3% drug store variety) over my foot. I didnt wash the peroxide off - I left it dry on. The next morning they were gone and never returned. That was 6 years ago

Myrhh Tincture

Posted by Rob (Kentucky) on 05/08/2026
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Warts on Cattle (humans too). The process of wart removal is short and simple. Cut them off as close as possible to the root with a sharp knife, let the part bleed freely, and then bathe it with Tincture of Myrrh or Friar's Balsam. This will be quite sufficient. A Complete Guide To The Cure Of All Diseases Incident To Horses, Cattle, Sheep, And Dogs, By John Rydge published in 1827 p. 228

Blackstrap Molasses

Posted by Leanna (White Rock, BC) on 08/11/2023
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Any brand of Blackstrap molasses will do but I like using Wholesome foods Organic Unsulphured Blackstrap molasses. My brother and I got together recently and he had a wart he was trying to get rid of so I gave him some of my blackstrap molasses and 3 days later he said it fell off. I just said I told you so!

Duct Tape

Posted by Dan W (Northampton, MA) on 05/26/2022
★☆☆☆☆

WARNING!

Do NOT use Gorilla tape for Warts

I read about using duct tape to get rid of warts by covering them with it. I didn't have any duct tape, but I had Gorilla tape, which is stronger, so I figured it should work just the same if not better. I put a piece over one wart overnight and when I woke up, the skin around it was painful and discolored. The skin has remained discolored for 4-5 months so far. And it was painful for weeks afterwards.

Do NOT try this!!! Big regrets. The wart is still there, btw.

Needle Poking and Honey

Posted by Lisa (Colorado) on 06/08/2018
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For a big, stubborn wart on top of my big toe during sandal season, I tried everything. ACV, duct tape and many other suggestions seemed to work temporarily and then would just stop working. I read about getting your immune system to recognize the wart and attack it by poking it with a needle. I poked all around the wart with a sterilized quilting pin. I came at it from a sideways angle as if trying to remove a splinter. This was hardly painful at all. I did not poke it straight down! That would have hurt a lot and caused a lot of bleeding. I poked through the wart from many directions all around (holding the pin practically parallel to the toe), then put raw, unfiltered honey on it and wrapped it with a stretchy band-aid colored tape. I noticed a dramatic difference overnight! My immune system fought the wart from the inside, and the enzymes in the honey worked on it from the outside. I repeated this every two days until it was gone. It was gone in little more than a week! It worked so quickly. Most other remedies take at least a month.

Zinc Oxide Cream

Posted by Jason (New York) on 01/30/2018
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My young son (3) had 8 warts on his hands and I had 2. Used zinc oxide on them. They were gone painlessly within a month and haven't come back. I read that warts are a sign of possible zinc deficiency.

Ionic Zinc Sulphate

Posted by Chad (Southeast) on 07/07/2017
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Warts:

Might wanna skip all that pain and use liquid Ionic zinc sulphate. Kills in one application. Truly miraculous stuff, no virus can stand it including herpes, hpv, you name it.

Iodine

Posted by Anon (Anon) on 06/05/2016
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Yay for iodine for warts. The bump I had on my hand that looked like the other one that turned into a wart is nearly gone. Instead of making the mistake of scratching it, which is what caused the other bump to become a wart, I instead put a drop of Lugol's 2% on it and let it soak in. There was a dark spot from the iodine for a few days. After a week or so I put another drop on. The bump scabbed over and is gradually flattening out. It's nearly gone, it's been about two weeks. Thanks, God! And EarthClinic :)

Iodine

Posted by Myway (Wilmington, DE) on 11/30/2014
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I had a wart on my arm that was pretty persistent. It would go away with a couple of months of ACV but would come back in another month. I decided to dab iodine tincture on it 2-3 times a week for about 2 months. That tiny dab did the trick. It's been about 6 months and it hasn't come back. The skin is clear and healed over.

Banana Peel

Posted by Minja (Banja Luka, Bosnia) on 02/14/2014
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15 years almost I am fighting this crasy verrucas on my feet. Every year older become bigger, and new ones appear! This year that verruca claster become painfull! I started wolking strange way trying to avoid pain. Since I am mum and breastfeeding only natural remedy is an option! I found this great site and messages of you all who tried banana peel. I started at evening. Put the peel inside on verrucas and bandage it with duct tape. In the morning I take it of and find black places where verruas are. Also I discavered new little ones growing from inside of foot. I took foot file, and as much as I could, tried to eliminate that black spots. After I was foot and put propolis drops on it. And put socks. On evening I wash my foot, took a foot file and also tried to take off as much as I could, that infected skin. And then put banana peel again. I REPETED that procedure 7 days, and all ot that bastards are gone! After 15 years I finally have nice, soft, clean foot! It works - that great banana really works!!!

Apple Cider Vinegar

Posted by Blair (Halifax, Nova Scotia) on 01/19/2013
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I promised myself I would write a review of this home remedy should it work, so here I am letting people know that if you do this right it will work to remove warts. I had had two ugly warts on my face for the last 5 years, one on my cheek and another by my nose, when I first got them I thought they were zits or something, then they weren't going away so I thought they were cysts, the last thing I wanted to accept was that they were warts, so I went for years with those ugly things on my face. I came across this webpage and all the stories of people with success in removing warts so I thought what the hell I am giving this a try. I picked up some cheap Apple Cider Vinegar it cost me less than $5, I used it full stregnth on small cotton ball the size of the wart by securing the cotton to the warts with bandaids. I wore this 24/7 for 3 days changing the bandaids and reapplying the ACV every 4 hours or so. The warts turned Red, then black. I kept on applying the ACV for another full day the wart by my nose peeled off, the one on my cheek hung on 1 more day but it too fell off. I am left with two pinkish color spots where the warts used to be 1 full week later. I suspect in a week or two the pink will vanish with more healing time. I did experience some stinging when I was applying the ACV, and I did burn skin around the wart by making the cotton ball too big a few times, if I ever have to do this again I will protect the skin around the wart by applying polysporin or vasiline to the healthy skin to protect it from the burning. I am so happy this cure worked for me, I just wish I had looked it up earlier and not spent years with bad facial skin. Good luck everyone.

Castor Oil and Baking Soda

Posted by Alt-rocks (Suffolk, United Kingdom) on 08/02/2012
★★★★★

Many years ago my youngest brother was constantly having to have thread warts burnt off from under his chin and neck area. He was very young and this was extremely painful for him. A retired nurse suggested that I might want to try using a slurry of castor oil and bicarbonate of soda on the area twice a day. It worked absolute wonders, they all fell off within a week, and twenty five years later he is still wart free. If I remember correctly, I used a teaspoon of castor oil and two teaspoons of bicarbs to create a sludge which I applied to his skin with a q-tip.

Aloe Vera

Posted by J Girl (Tampa, Fl) on 05/08/2011
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My son had at least 6 planters warts on his one foot which were painful and seemed to be multiplying in spite of all our efforts. Got some pure aloe vera gel (the whole plant not simply the inner milk/juice) at the health food store for about $12 for a small bottle and started putting that on his foot at night while he slept (no covering, just open to the air). Within 6 days they started to turn black as I read. After about 2 1/2 weeks they are all gone. Looks like a brand new foot. No pain involved in the whole process.

Duct Tape

Posted by John (Solon, OH) on 12/26/2006
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Duct tape on wart to suffocate it for a week and it will be gone. William Beacon was on David Letterman Christmas Day Eve telling people different uses for duck or duct tape. He told David Letterman if you put Duct Tape on a wart it will be gone in a week.

Garlic

Posted by Philip (Copenhagen) on 12/05/2025
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I had a footwart and a wart on my finger for a long time. I tried the banana peel with no luck. From indigenous people in the Amazon I learned about a simple cure for this; garlic. Both of my warts are now gone.

You take away all the dead skin with a knife and get to the point where it's almost bleeding. Then you take crushed up garlic and put it in the hole in the skin. Cover it with some skintape and leave it for 12-24 hours. It might have to be repeated once or twice. This simple trick made my warts on both finger and foot go away.

Hydrogen Peroxide, Apple Cider Vinegar

Posted by Smiggy (Sg, ) on 03/11/2025
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I had a wart and for years it didn't grow or bother me but lately I realised it's growing slightly bigger.

I went through earthclinic for solution and decided to try with Hydrogen Peroxide solution (65) and Bragg apple cider vinegar.

I filled the cotten bud with hydrogen peroxide solution clean the wart. Then I let the wart soak in the solution for a couple of minutes.

After that, I soaked a new cotton bud with ACV and put it on the wart with a plaster.

It stink the skin but I get used to it. I noticed the wart got smaller and softer the next day and after 3 days, the skin of the wart broke and the wart is almost flat.

I will continue this therapy as I believed it can finally kill it at the root and unroot the whole thing.

Apple Cider Vinegar

Posted by Kathryn4 (Maryland) on 12/22/2024
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I had some small warts frozen off my face at a dermatologist. They did say that they could come back. They did and I applied apple cider vinegar with a cotton ball on them several times a day. The dry tops just fell off and appear to be healing. They were on my forehead and itched and just caused aggravation - so thankful this remedy worked for me!