Over the counter wart removal products

Removing your warts with a commercial product

Each year, a lot of people undergo wart removal procedures. Often the procedure is done right at home, either with a home remedy or an over-the-counter product. At home wart removal procedures have always been popular and if you have a wart there is a good chance that you may be thinking about removing your warts at home. If this is the case, you may be ready to try a commercial, over-the-counter wart remover.

Over-the-counter wart removers, like any other store bought products, are available for sale at most retail stores. These include grocery stores, department stores, health and beauty stores, as well as drug stores and pharmacies. You can buy them without ever having to visit your doctor.

A low cost option
In addition to being easy to get, over-the-counter wart removers are popular because they are relatively easy to afford. The cost of a commercial wart remover will all depend on which type of product you purchase. If this is your first time buying one, you will soon find out that you have a number of different options. There are numerous product manufacturers to choose from, and different wart remover types to choose from. These types typically include medicated bandages or freeze-off formulas.

Freeze-off wart removers
Perhaps the most popular type of wart remover currently available for sale at a store, is the freeze-off wart removers.  As mentioned above, freeze-off wart removers are made by a number of different product manufacturers. Since they all largely do the same thing, the only difference is the price. Salicylic acid is the main ingredient in commercially available wart freezing off products.

Medicated removal bandages
In addition to freeze-off wart removers, you can also find wart removal products that use medicated bandages. The cost of medicated wart removal bandages or pads will all depend on how big of a package you wish to purchase. These products can be bought online as well as in-store.These affordable wart removal pads or bandages will of course take time to work effectively. Unlike many freeze-off wart removers, the medicated pads or bandages do not work right away. In fact, some of these products have been known to take around two weeks or even a month to work.

Whether you make the decision to purchase a freeze-off wart remover, or a medicated wart removing pad,  you are sure to find something that works for you.

Home remedy-curing warts with raw potato

 Curing warts with WHAT?

One popular home remedy uses a vegetable many of us have regularly in our kitchens, the humble white potato. There are many instances of people recording the method as successful, yet no one is really able to say why.

What to do

1.  Cut a raw white potato in half and rub the 'potato juice' all over the warts that you want to remove.

2.  Do this morning and night every day for at least 2 weeks.

That's it, hopefully your warts should disappear.

When I was a child I had small warts all over the back of one hand and on my wrist, they were just small ones, but embarrassing none-the-less. Eventually, my mum heard about the potato method and we tried it, though I don't remember religiously applying it every morning and night. But my warts did disappear. 

Now, did they go on their own or was it the potato? Who really knows?

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One aromatherapist I have spoken to states that warts are caused by a virus, which we know, that's HPV,  and that they are an external sign of an internal potassium deficiency. One possible thought is that the potassium found in potatoes somehow has an external effect on warts. 

This is one of the easiest home remedies to try, when wanting to remove your warts at home.

Leave a note in the comments section if you've tried this and it worked.