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Home Remedies for Wart Removal - How to Remove a Wart

Updated on July 29, 2014
No, you can't catch warts from toads, but if you have one, people might treat you like one!
No, you can't catch warts from toads, but if you have one, people might treat you like one!

Home Remedies and Natural Cures for Wart Removal

Warts are frequently viewed as as uninvited, unwanted and unpleasant. This is because they are unwanted growths that appear seemingly out of nowhere on the skin. These growths are, nearly always, non-cancerous, but they're still unwanted. If you're seeking an efficient, but cheap method to have your wart or warts got rid of, you might want to consider trying a home remedy.

Whilst a great amount of people think home remedies are not going to work, there are other people who swear by them.

You'll find listed, some popular wart removal home remedies on this page.

Duct Tape Wart Removal?

Perhaps a more unusual home remedy used to remove warts calls for duct tape.

It's been stated; as a matter of fact, it's also been seconded by scientific research, that duct tape can be effective at removing or eliminating warts. If you're curious in giving this home remedy a try, here's how.

The duct tape wart removal technique was reported in the Archives of pediatrics & Adolescent medicine the October 2002 issue.

The process is as follows: You cut a small bit of duct tape only of sufficient size to cover the wart. You then leave it on for 5 or 6 days.

After keeping the warts covered with the tape, for around a week, you'll have to take off the tape, soak the wart in water, then scrub it with a pumice stone. If your wart does not come away immediately, you're advised to redo the process again, for at minimum an additional 1 to 2 weeks.

Aloe Vera for removing Warts

It's also been told that Aloe Vera is useful for doing away with warts. Soak a small cotton ball in aloe, its preferable that its the gel. After the soaking has took place, for approximately a minute or so, It's time to tape the cotton ball to your wart.

It's then recommended that you add Aloe Vera to the wart or piece of cotton every few hours. By having the cotton ball in place like this, with the exclusion of renewing it day by day, your wart should drop-off in a few days or weeks.

Tea Tree Oil for Wart Removal

Essential oil of tea tree is a potent antiseptic that can kill most bacteria and therefore is a highly potent technique of wart removal. This technique is also very popular owed to its quite high success rate. Merely apply essential tea tree oil straight on the wart each day until it goes away. This process shouldn't take a lot of applications due to its effectiveness.

Echinacea

The taking of Echinacea capsules can aid the healing of moderate skin infections, therefore also making it a good help against warts. Take 1 or 2 capsules a day as recommended on the bottle.

Echinacea was frequently used by Native American Indians as a comprehensive remedy for almost anything. In the 1900's it was the commonest herb in medical use in the USA. Even today,Echinacea is still among the most recommended herbal products globally.

Essential Lemon Oil for Wart Removal

A different common and popular technique of wart removal involves using a single drop of essential lemon oil right on the wart itself. Do this again often until wart is gone away.

Caster oil

Seemingly, caster oil is likewise believed to be a useful wart removal remedy. While using caster oil, simply apply the oil to the wart. It's then advised to rub or massage the region gently. Daily and nightly doing this, your wart should disappear after a few days or weeks.

Banana peel

Rubbing a banana skin on a wart for a couple of weeks too is alleged to be a great help. You should rub the banana skin on it several times throughout the day for peak effectiveness.

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Conclusion

Additional remedies suggest using chalk, dandelion, aspirin, baking soda, papaya, and milkweed. When picking out a home remedy, it's a good idea to abstain from applying anything that you could have an allergy to. Whenever and when you're in uncertain, it's perhaps better to pick out another home remedy to try.

It's likewise good to know, that when utilizing home remedies for wart removal, that the final results are not guaranteed. Just due to the fact that one home remedy worked for somebody else, it doesn't mean that it will likewise work for you. Nevertheless, with a large assortment of diverse home remedies to select from, there's a good chance you could find at least one successful remedy.

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