Uh Yeah I Cut Myself, I'm Not Concealing A Wart. I swear! Honestly!
Written: Mar 28 '02
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Pros: Gets rid of warts. Looks like a band-aid.
Cons: Your a dirty filthy, virus infested person like me if your looking into wart removal.
The Bottom Line: If you have a normal cauliflower type of wart then this is the best treatment that I've found.
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| Goldentoe's Full Review: Clear Away One-Step Wart Remover |
It’s a simple fact of life that bad things happen to good people (or bad things happen to bad people whatever your case may be), so it’s inevitable that you, like me will have to suffer from a wart at least one time in your life. Raise your hand if you’ve never had a wart, that’s what I thought I don’t see any hands. If you did raise your hand then let me just say that “I hate you” and I hope you are cursed to have one with hairs growing out of it grow on your nose. Okay enough of me developing bad blood with the people with perfect skin and on with the review.
My History With Warts
I think it’s important to first let you know my encounters with the little demons so lovingly named warts so as to give you a perspective. My first fight with warts was nasty; when I was at the age of 7-10 (don’t remember exactly) I got a serious attack of seed warts. Seed warts aren’t the most well known kind of wart (you’ve probably never seen one), unlike Planter warts these are much smaller, look like small clear zits, spread like wildfire, can only spread on the bottom of your feet and palms of your hands and they also feel like your walking on needles (very short needles). I had 56 of these little buggers (that is not a misprint) 54 on the soles of my feet and 2 that spread to my hands. The only treatment that I know for these are for the doctor to freeze them off, and believe me the short pain of them being frozen off is worth it. Note: that this product cannot remove these warts.
I was wart free for a good long time until 3 years ago when I got the normal everyday household type of wart that causes no pain, and looks like cauliflower finally decided to take residence in my right hand. The wart was at the loose fleshy part of skin between the thumb and forefinger. I used Compound W (can’t remember the brand name) and all I can say about Compound W is that it sucks. It smells pretty funky does nothing to the warts except erck them off and causes the surrounding skin to easily tear and bleed profusely, which then in turn spreads the warts elsewhere. After a month of working on that wart I spotted about ten more warts had popped up around it as well as one on the inside middle joint of my middle finger. I discontinued use of that garbage and concluded that I should just hang my warty butt from the rafters in the attic in a couple weeks if the warts didn’t go away on their own. Luckily for me and those ever so lucky readers out there they all just disappeared about a week after I quit trying to get rid of them. That is all except for one, that one on my middle finger decided to stick around, and I decided to leave it alone figuring it would just follow its partners in crime and leave on its own free will. Well come three years later and that little freeloader is still clinging onto my hand I figured it was time to take action on it and this is where Dr Scholls Clear Away strips comes in.
My Experience With This Product
Since you’ve gotten through my disturbingly long recollection of my history with warts I’ll “reward” you with my account with the product at hand. I bought the Dr. Scholls clear away strips since my feet highly recommend their products and I’ve seen no success with liquid forms of wart removal (example: Compound W). It cost around eight dollars and came with 16 medicated pads and 16 bandage-like strips (I think they’ve upped the number since they updated this on epinions). The medicated strips contain some sort of acid (does it really matter to know the name), which apparently gets rid of warts. You should clean thoroughly and dry the affected area, then possibly let it soak in warm water for 5 minutes (when fighting a war on warts don’t hold back, do every optional thing you can). Then put the acid patch directly over the wart and then firmly tape it yourself with the extremely effective tape strip that looks like a bandage. I say it’s extremely effective because 1. It does look like a bandage so you don’t like your just one of those lepers that warts. 2. It stuck to my finger for the entire 48-hour periods that are the recommended usage time of each patch/strip. That’s impressive considering that if my hands are covered (like in a latex glove or are concealed with a bandage) they sweat profusely until it comes off, most band-aids last 6 or less hours.
After I put on the first one for the full 48 hours I discovered two myths surrounding them.
Myth #1: They’re Painless
May be it’s because it was in a sensitive area or at a nerve ending, but the numbing agent of this acid didn’t work perfectly for me. I was stunned to see when I pulled off that strip that the whole area had turned ghost white and had puffed up considerably. It also felt kind of like a day-old paper cut as well, nothing serious though.
Myth #2: They’re Odorless
Well possibly they are, but I couldn’t tell, because every time I took them off I was hit with a strong smell. I don’t know if it was the smell of the acid or the smell of my rotting flesh being suffocated by the strips and slowly burnt away by acid.
Anyway after six days I pulled off my 3rd application and with it came the first layer of my wart. Which was surprising considering it was a clean pulling off of my wart, no extra skin came with it that would cause bleeding. After that I was rather excited because I could see it was working so I went around waving my affected finger around to any and everybody. The nice guy who cut me off, strangers in the street, my boss, my minister, any and everybody who looked my way. Most of which seemed disgusted (seems reasonable considering we are talking about a wart), angered and threatened to fire me or some even prayed for my soul, which both seemed a little extreme for just having a wart.
Then 6 days later when I was drying my hands to put on another application the second and last layer of wart came off on the towel, making the whole time it took for this wonderful product to remove my wart just 12 days. I continued use for another 6 days just in case but it was doing absolutely nothing to the pit that was once a wart. Now it has been a month of hopeful thinking that the wart has actually gone away and isn’t coming back and my middle finger is back into perfect shape.
The box says that you could use it up to 12 weeks in order to remove a wart, but I’ve heard of none taking more than 2 weeks with this product. It also says that you should not use this on agitated skin, planter warts, seed warts, birthmarks, moles, freckles, and warts with hair growing out of them. It also should not be used to remove tumors, revive dead relatives, used to amputate small appendages, nor used to start forest fires. It is not a safe for small children to use this while running with scissors, cleaning guns or while eating laundry detergent. You should see a physician immediately if you have used this product to remove contacts from your eyes or have sliced it up and used it as seasoning for your 5-alarm chili. You should see a mental health expert if you are actually that stupid as to try to use it a wart remover to remove moles and birthmarks or to have believed any of that crap that I wrote after that, because it isn’t safe for you to be out in the real world.
Overall I’d say this is the best form of wart removal available. They’re cheaper and less painful than a doctor visit, and more effective than liquid forms that I’ve used.
Recommended:
Yes
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