steve (roanoke, va) on 03/14/2025
Tricia (Huntsville, TX) on 08/04/2024
Mary Lou (KY) on 07/04/2024
First, for skin tags, DO NOT saturate a band aid with ACV and put on your skin. I did, and the next day I had a painful, itching, fiery red, reaction. It was similar to a chemical burn. It's been about a week and I'm still putting healing salve on it.
Second, ACV does work. On my face, I used a Q-tip and applied ACV several times throughout the day when I was home. In about a week the skin tag dried up and I scratched it off.
However, it did leave a red reaction on the area around the skin tag. So now, I'm putting healing salve on it.
Karen (Florence SC) on 03/30/2024
Rob (Kentucky) on 08/29/2023
I’ve been using myself as a guinea pig to see if this technique worked. I’ve had clusters of tiny skin tags pop-up all over both armpits for some odd reason. Since it was a skin sensative area and I’m to lazy to apply any ointment several times daily so that’s not an option.
I read over on EarthClinic HPV treatment page using lemon oil to treat HPV warts. So I’m thinking to myself there has to be an easy way to apply this so here is what I came up with.
Recipe:
- one teaspoon Aloe Vera Gel placed into a small bowl (I use fruit of the earth brand)
- two drops of Lemon essential oil
- two drops of Tea Tree oil
Method:
Squirt about a teaspoon of aloe gel into a small bowl.
Add essential oils on top of gel.
Use your finger to mix til uniformed.
Apply this mixture equally to each armpit. Do this after morning shower and before bed time (2x daily).
Results:
It has now been 7 days since I started doing this and most of the tiny hard bumps in my armpit are all gone. Only 3 are left but much smaller in size. I will continue this for another week.
Conclusion:
This technique does work and with little effort. Also, I noticed this works great as a deodorant.
ChurpyBurd (Malaga, Spain) on 07/10/2023
Going to try ACV and bandaid on less visible ones on my abdomen.
Five stars for effect - no scarring. But I think probably clipping them would be just as painful and probably shorter duration process.
detroiter (Detroit, MI) on 12/18/2022
Rob (Kentucky) on 03/08/2022
Back in the early-mid 1980’s, I had a skin lesion that was not responding to conventional treatment. I showed it to my Aunt and she put this “mini cigarette looking thing with a sticky cushion on one side” (I later learned it was called a mini-moxa used in Chinese medicine). She stuck it over the lesion and lit the cigarette and it burned for about 5 minutes. Stung alittle bite at the end of the burn cycle then she removed it and it left a brownish stain on my skin. A few days later, the skin lesion was gone.
Fast forward 40 years to today, I bought some mini-moxa online. I am using them for flat warts(?) I think that they are not responding to any treatment. Mini-moxa sticks contain mugwort, wormwood and sage.
A friend of mine was complaining about the skin tags he had around his neck. I looked at them and determined that the mini-moxa sticks would fit over them.
Here are the results from just one 5 minute treatment:
Day 2: Tags turned a white color.
Day 3: Tags turned black and hard.
Day 6: Tags fell off!
Video: What is Moxa sticks & How to use it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3OIbmn_1MU
RM (Montana) on 01/09/2022
Anne (Australia) on 12/26/2021
By chance, I found a bottle of greater celandine tincture in my drawer. I knew it was warts and stuff but not sure about skin tag and keloids. It was a 15 year old bottle of tincture and I figured there was nothing effective about it but before I threw the bottle out, why not do something with it. I applied again, a few drops to the palm and transferred to the skin tag. Some days later, I checked it and it was shrivelling. The 'plumbness' that it felt was shrivelling. I applied it again. Left it for another two days. it shrivelled more. I applied it twice more, a few days apart each and yesterday, having forgotten about it over the festive season, I could barely find it. It was the size of a raisin previously and it was definitely less than 1/5th of the original. I will apply it again and I am quite confident I can rid of it.
Debbie (New South Wales) on 12/22/2021
- I have attempted to treat my hemorrhoids via multiple natural means unsuccessfully for about 10 years. They only gradually became worse over time despite my attempts to treat them on my own. I have spoken to my GP before from time to time about this issue, but I often feel like he doesn't take my hemorrhoid problems seriously (possibly because I look young and healthy). Whenever I do see him about this issue, he just gives me generic advice about adding more fiber to my diet and prescribing ointments or creams that at best only provides temporary relief.
- It is only when I was in ALOT of pain (where I wasn't even able to sit or lie down without crying in pain) that my GP finally referred me to lady doctor to check out the condition of my hemorrhoids, who then referred me to a gastroenterologist. It was then that I was diagnosed with prolapsed thrombosed hemorrhoids. He recommended a colonoscopy and banding surgery to fix the issue.
- The wait in between waiting to see the doctor, then the gastroenterologist and then finally the scheduled surgery was excruciatingly painful. That period lasted for months. During that time, I had to postpone any plans to work or study. All I could do is stay at home, manage my condition via sitz baths, adjust my diet and toilet habits to minimise any pain from doing a no.2 and continue attempting to treat my hemorrhoids during the wait. I had asked why I had to wait such a long time to get my problem sorted. The reason I was given was that hemorrhoids are not a life threatening disease, therefore are not a priority for treatment. Not to mention that I'm fairly healthy otherwise.
- During the wait, I was introduced a acupuncturist who had successfully treated other people to had hemorrhoids. He was able to identify the underlying cause to my condition and used acupuncture to treat it. This, along with adjusting my diet (to include probiotics, fruits and vegetables) and adjusting my toileting position to avoid straining, eventually made my bowel movements easier and painless. I cancelled my scheduled surgery in favor of doing the acupuncture treatment, since waiting for the surgery seems to be taking so long and the acupuncture treatment seems fairly successful.
After the acupuncture treatment, I thought I still had hemorrhoids, despite my bowel movements being a lot easier and painless. I still had flesh coming out of my anus and I still have difficultly cleaning the anal area or sitting comfortably on it. At first, I tried diluted apple cider vinegar to treat the flesh. They did slowly get smaller but I didn't enjoy this treatment and it didn't do much for me aside to giving me an uncomfortable burning sensation. Later, I tried just simply applying castor oil to the flesh after reading the posts about castor oil for hemorrhoids on earth clinic. The castor oil seems like a gentler and more effective treatment than apple cider vinegar. I was able to get rid of more of the extra fleshy part of the anal area over time but I still couldn't get rid of it completely.
It wasn't until later that I worked out that these weren't hemorrhoids anymore, but skin tags in the anal area. Because I already seem to have some success with castor oil for treatment, I decided to so some internet research about using castor oil to treat anal skin tags. I learnt that castor oil has the ability to drain moisture from skin tags, causing it to shrink and die off when it is in contact with it. The internet also mentioned that mixing it with baking soda makes the castor oil more effective.
I did try castor oil and baking soda together once only to get a stinging sensation in the anal area. So I decided to just use castor oil on its own. However, instead of just simply applying it to the anal skin tags, what I decided do recently is get some toilet paper, saturate one side with the castor oil and wrap it around the skin tags to ensure that it is constantly in contact with the castor oil all day and night (and changing the toilet paper and castor oil 3 times per day).
- I've been doing the castor oil with toilet paper treatment for about 10 days now. My skin tags were huge and uncomfortable at the start of those 10 days. Now they're a lot smaller and barely noticeable. I still have some skin tags left over, but castor oil as a treatment for anal skin tag removal has been very successful so far. I'll keep going with this for now and hopefully they will disappear.
Homebody (USA) on 12/04/2021
Aforrester (London) on 06/03/2020
Angie (Georgia) on 05/07/2020
I had a skin tag under my eye for a few years and it suddenly started growing. That’s when I decided I had to try to get rid of it. I used a cotton swab with a drop of tea tree oil and dabbed only the skin tag because I knew from a past experience the tea tree oil could redden the surrounding skin. In just a couple of days it scabbed over and I just scratched the dry skin off. It was small after that so I continued dabbing and a couple days later the rest scratched right off.
Donna (Michigan) on 02/14/2021
Tanja (Los Angeles, CA) on 12/30/2020
Last week I got so sick of it I tied floss around it - soaked it in iodine and apple cider vinegar alternating the two and it just got irritated and got bigger - DAAAMN. Clearly the floss was not cutting off the blood circulation to the tag (and I knew that since I had tried it before....).
BUT THEN I took REGULAR COTTON STRING (like the kind you sew clothes with) and tied that underneath the floss closest to the root of the tag and THAT was the thing that changed everything.
I tied it tight and within 12 hours the tag had started to turn black.
In order to speed up the process. I also soaked a cotton ball in apple cider vinegar and taped it on the skin tag for several hours each day and TODAY, THREE DAYS AFTER TYING THE STRING THE SKIN TAG FELL OFF.
I AM SO HAPPY IT IS GONE OMG! . So USE REGULAR COTTON STRING TO CUT OFF THE BLOOD SUPPLY AND SOAK THE TAG IN APPLE CIDER VINEGAR SEVERAL TIMES A DAY AND SAY BYE BYE TO BIG SKIN TAGS. My skin did get red from the apple cider vinegar but it will heal but you definitely can use vaseline to protect the base of the skin if you have irritated skin.
THANK YOU EARTH CLINIC FOR PROVIDING THIS COMMUNITY!!
Jean J. (Wheeling, Il) on 10/19/2018
Thursthroughtues (Los Angeles ) on 04/11/2018
first time poster. I used ACV to remove a minuscule skin tag that was on my scrotum. I’ve had it for years, and I only recently thought about removing it.
So I soaked a cotton ball with Braggs ACV and taped it over the skin tag over night. I may think I applied far too much.
the next day the skin tag was practically gone, but unaffected areas on my scrotum turned black, under the skin. I think I severely burned parts of my penis. Healthy skin is now a black color. Is this permenant? I immediately started to apply neosporin, and have been for the last two days (these burns only showed up yesterday). Haven’t noticed much improvement.
The irony is, these black burn marks are very noticible, compared to the skin tag which was the size of a pin-head. Did I permanently damage healthy skin? What should I do besides use neosporin? It really does look like the burns aren’t on the surface, they look like they’re below a layer of skin. They’re not all together, sort of spread out with reddish irritation on the skin between burns.
its only been one full day since I noticed the burns and two since removing the skin tag.
Any responses would help. Thank you!
Janis (Mn) on 02/08/2018
Suzanne (Norman, Ok) on 09/04/2017
