5 Ways To Minimize the Chance of Scarring With Over The Counter Mole and Wart Removal Creams.
General No Comments »Most Over The Counter Mole and Wart Removal treatments are creams or pastes based on caustic plant saps. Caustic means the product burns the skin when it comes in contact, much the same way an acid burns but not as badly.
Sounds a bit worrying, but when used according to the directions Mole Removal Creams can be made to limit their attack to the mole, which contains few nerves, and leave the surrounding skin unaffected. So while it is usual to feel a bit of a sting when the treatment is used, normal healthy skin should remain undamaged.
For ideal results, just enough cream should be applied to remove the mole without damaging the surrounding and underlying skin.
While it is not always easy to judge the precise amount of cream required, here are a few tips to help you remove your mole without painful and ugly side effects.
Be Rough
First up, it helps if you can give the cream a head start. This is done by roughening the surface of the mole with an emory or orange board – the sort you might use to smooth your nails. Don’t get too enthusiastic with it – the aim is to remove harder dead skin, and there is no need to make your mole bleed.
Follow this up by lightly scraping the surface of the mole with the point of a needle – just a few light scratches to help the cream get closer to its target, again without making the mole bleed
Protect Surrounding Skin
To protect the skin around the mole, smooth on some vaseline. Just on the skin, not the mole.
Only The Mole Gets The Cream
Now is the time to apply the paste. This is powerful stuff, and it will hurt for a short time. Although you will clean it off the mole after 20 minutes or however long is recommended in the directions, too much cream or paste will keep on acting after the mole is already destroyed, and can damage the healthy skin underneath. This, together with allowing the cream to spread beyond the mole surface, is the most common cause of scars following home mole removal.
So take care not to let the cream touch normal skin, and if in doubt use less. Many over the counter creams promise mole removal with only one application, but it’s better to follow up with a second treatment than be left with a crater where the mole used to be.
Carefully Clean And Dry The Mole
Most treatments recommend covering the mole with a band aid or similar protective strip after the initial treatment. This is good practice, but make sure you have cleaned the cream off the mole, and that the surface of the mole is dry before you put on the band aid. Be careful not to let the leftover cream come in contact with your skin when you remove it.
It is quite possible to smear the leftover cream onto the band aid, and then on to healthy skin. Ouch for the second time. Be careful not to let the leftover cream come in contact with your skin when you remove it.
DON’T TOUCH!
And finally, the most important way to avoid scarring is perhaps the hardest to do.
Try not to touch the mole after the treatment. It will have started forming a scab even before you have cleaned off the excess cream, but it is really important to let the scab fall off naturally. By then the good skin underneath will have healed, and you should be left with a little pink area where the mole was, which will fade with time and become indistinguishable from your normal skin color. Pulling it off too early will damage your skin and healing will take a lot longer.
If you can do these five things, your mole should drop off with no long term damage to the skin under and around the mole, and the treatment itself will involve little pain.
While these tips will help minimise scarring no matter which over the counter cream or paste you use, Wart Mole Vanish has proved to be effective with many users. You can read more about Wart Mole Vanish here, while Amazon is a great place to pick up Wart Mole Vanish online.
Before you use any form of home mole removal treatment, please have your moles checked by an experienced doctor or dermatologist. Suspicious or pre-cancerous moles and mole like melanoma cancers require specialised and skilled removal.
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