Skin Tags or Moles? Try These Gentle Solutions!
Explore Safe Solutions for Skin Tags & Moles—Even on Sensitive Skin. Discover the gentle, natural ways to care for these common skin bumps anywhere on your body, so you can feel clear and confident without worry.
What is a skin tag?
While skin tags can be a nuisance, catching on clothes or jewelry, the good news is that they are usually harmless.
Medically known as acrochordons, the tags are usually flesh colored or brownish growths that hang from the skin's surface. They are made up of loose collagen fibers and ducts embedded within thicker areas of skin. They are also composed of nerve and fat cells as well as epidermis - the outermost skin layer.
What are the signs and symptoms of a skin tag?
- Skin tags will often form on the neck, eyelids or other areas where friction occurs and skin folds already exist. Skin tags will form flaps or grow on a short stem.
- When skin tags first appear they are often small soft pin head bumps, growing larger in time.
- Most skin tags do not cause any pain, discomfort or other symptoms but if they grow larger, they may irritate the skin and cause discomfort especially where the skin can rub.
- Large skin tags can also cause pain if they burst or a blood clot forms when the stalk gets twisted. And then of course they can catch on clothing or jewelry.
How likely am I to get a skin tag?
- are overweight
- are pregnant
- have family members who have skin tags
- have insulin resistance or type 2 diabetes
How is a skin tag removed?
Skin tags can be removed if they cause embarrassment, irritation or catch on clothing or jewelry.
These are some of the methods used:
- Radiocautery is the most common approach used to remove skin tags where radio waves are used to burn of the skin tag, usually carried out in your doctor's surgery.
- Another common method is cryotherapy where the skin tag is frozen with liquid nitrogen.
- Electrocautery where an electric current heats and remove a lesion.
- surgical or shave excision.
- Ligation where the blood flow to the skin tag is halted by wrapping sutures around its stem.
- Laser treatment with a Q-switched Neodymium YAG or carbon dioxide laser.
Gentle Solution for Skin Tags: Safe for Sensitive Areas
Our H-Skin Tags Formula offers a gentle, natural solution designed for the whole family. Made from pure ingredients, it's safe for children over 4 and effective on skin tags anywhere on the body, even in the most sensitive areas. Whether on the neck, face, or more private regions, our formula works painlessly and naturally to gradually flake away tags without any scarring or discomfort. Just apply a few drops directly with a cotton swab or finger, and let this gentle solution do the rest.
What is a mole?
What are the different types of moles that occur?
Common moles - these are usually benign and stay the same size, color, shape and texture.
- Round and symmetrical, with a well-defined border.
- Less than a quarter inch across.
- Flat or raised.
- Uniform in color, meaning the entire mole can be brown, black, tan, pink, red, blue or flesh-toned.
Atypical moles (or dysplastic nevi) may also be flat or raised but tend to be:
- Irregularly shaped with uneven borders that fade into the skin around your mole.
- Larger than a quarter inch across.
- Smooth, bumpy, rough, wrinkled or scaly.
- More than one color or speckled.
How can you tackle the appearance of a mole?
Any mole that causes irritation to your skin or is suspect can be removed via a medical procedure and here are some of the different ways:
- Laser is one method where a concentrated beam of light breaks up the cells that make up the mole. The mole should not be deep as the laser light cannot penetrate enough. An anesthetic is not usually required, and the beam of light is gentle enough not to harm healthy skin. Laser treatment can be costly.
- Excision is another method where the mole is cut before the wound is stitched. Depending on the mole's size and incision, the stitches are placed either deeply (to be absorbed by the body) or on the skin's upper surface (to be removed later). The surgery has to be carried out by a doctor.
- A mole can also be removed by cauterization, where a unique tool is used to burn away the mole. One of the drawbacks is that great care is needed afterward to ensure the successful healing of the wound.
Family-Friendly Gentle Solution for Moles
For benign moles that have been cleared by a healthcare provider, our H-Moles Formula offers a family-friendly, natural solution for reducing their appearance. The formula is painless and gentle, requiring only a few drops applied daily. Because it’s safe, non-invasive, and causes no discomfort, it’s an ideal choice for anyone who prefers a natural option. With regular use, many users report noticeable improvements in just a few weeks, although more persistent moles may take longer to respond.
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SOURCES:
Facial Mole Detection: An Approach towards Face Identification - ScienceDirect
American Academy of Dermatologists
Treatment of congenital facial nevi - PubMed (nih.gov)
C025 Facial mole surgery for cosmetic purposes - ScienceDirect
Written by Jane Chitty
Jane writes for Healing Natural Oils, a producer and retailer of high-quality, all-natural treatments for a variety of conditions as well as a range of beauty products. Apart from writing about those various conditions, she also covers general health, environmental and other subjects of interest. She has lived in Kenya as well as Cape Town, South Africa and spent time in San Diego, USA. She now lives in Somerset, England with regular visits from her far-flung children and grandchildren. She is a keen gardener and enjoys growing fresh fruit and vegetables with her husband on their joint allotment. As a result, there is something available to use in the kitchen virtually all year round. Her regular posts can be found on our blog.