If you have a skin tag, the good news is that it is most likely not cancerous.   And although they aren’t dangerous, from a cosmetic perspective, they aren’t much to look at, especially if they are on your face  .  .   There is some bad news though, especially if you don’t have health insurance or have insurance with a high deductible.   Removing one skin tag is one thing  .  If you have several skin tags that you are hoping to take care of at once, you best bet would still be to have them professionally removed .  So what do you do if you don’t have health insurance and want to have several removed at the same time?  The short answer is that you turn to natural remedies and do it on the cheap .  And in this article, I will give several natural remedies to removing a skin tag.

Remove a skin tag by applying tea tree oil

Tea Tree Oil is an essential oil used for decades by the aboriginal population of Australia . What makes tea tree oil such a powerful essential oil in treating skin conditions is that it penetrates the skin cells and literally dries up the skin tag from inside out  .  The irony to this remedy is that it not only treats skin conditions but a host of other things and is a very powerful antiseptic .

 Remove a Skin using Castor Oil

Unless you are beyond your 50′s, you probably don’t know what castor oil is.   But the reality is that your grandma will know and will tell you exactly how potent castor oil in treating various health conditions  .  Skin tags happen to be one of them  .  The one downside is that it has a very pungent smell, and you need to make a paste with baking soda .   You can combine an essential oil like mint to help lower the smell. 

Use Apple Cider Vinegar to remove a skin tag 

Another remedy pulled from yesteryear is Apple Cider Vinegar, or ACV.  .  The good news is that this remedy can be found literally in almost any grocery or health food store .  But does it really work?  The short answer is it does .  But so do all of the other home remedies noted above .  

The key to understanding what works is that all of the above skin tag removal options do essentially the same thing …. all three herbal remedies are essentially drying agents and dry the skin tag up .

If the herbal remedies take too long or you simply want a quick way to remove a skin, then there are other options….

While these won’t necessarily be useful for those who have many skin tags, they could be effective for removing one or two quickly…

Duct Tape…the wonder tool

While most will use duct tape to hold something together, you can use duct to remove a skin tag or even a wart  .   Using duct tape works because it irritates the skin so much that the tag will literally turn black and die.

Strangle a skin tag and it will fall off

Another common way to remove skin tags is to take a piece of string and tying the skin tag tightly at the base .  The premise behind this remedy is that the cells of the skin tag need oxygen to continue .   Cut off the skin tags oxygen and watch within a few days as the skin tag starts to wither .

Cut off the skin tag with a sharp knife

The final remedy is probably the quickest albeit the most painful .  Cut the bugger off  .  The issue with this is that the skin tag could grow back in a few days to a month or so.   In terms of quickness though, cutting a skin tag off is just as quick as a doctor’s visit  .

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