While it can be alarming to see any kind of growth on your skin, skin tags are completely harmless and quite easy to remove. Ready to say goodbye to your skin tags for good? We looked at the best skin tag removers available on the market that guarantee results.  

Being happy in your skin is important, but the sight of a knobbly skin tag cropping up out of nowhere can be horrifying and make you feel self-conscious. Take comfort in knowing that skin tags are completely harmless and, on most accounts, easy to remove. 

What Are They?

A skin tag is a benign (non-cancerous) tumor made up of collagen fibers, capillaries, and lymphatic vessels. Also known as fibroma or acrochordons, they are usually flesh-colored, about the size of a grain of rice, and look like a little flap of skin connected to the body by a small stalk of tissue.

What Causes Skin Tags?

No one knows exactly what causes skin tags but medical professionals seem to agree that their formation has something to do with trapped collagen and blood vessels found inside thicker pieces of skin. Affecting both men and women, they commonly grow under armpits, behind knees, on eyelids, and in neck folds. Sometimes skin tags fall off on their own as they get rubbed by clothing, while other times tags can be stubborn and set on staying put. The good news is that most skin tags can be safely, effectively, and best of all painlessly removed with many over-the-counter products.

Tags Vs Warts

Sometimes it may be hard differentiating a skin tag from a wart, especially to the untrained eye. While warts are also benign skin growths, unlike tags warts are caused by a viral infection to the top layer of your skin and are contagious. If you are worried that something on your skin is not a skin tag but something else, you should have a dermatologist or your family doctor have a look at it just to be sure.

Say Goodbye To Skin Tags

Just because skin tags are common doesn’t mean you have to live with them. Before you grab a pair of scissors and attempt to snip the tag off yourself it is best to use a professional product designed to safely remove tags, while protecting the surrounding skin. Many commercial skin tag removal kits contain ligation bands that can be placed around the base of the skin tags, thereby cutting off their circulation and causing them to fall off. Home “freezing” kits are also available but typically require multiple applications before you see results. Medical patches have become a popular alternative. Each patch is applied directly to the affected area making the elimination of the skin tag fast and easy - the skin tag simply dries up and falls away!