# Blasting a Skin Tag

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blasting-a-skin-tag/364324>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 13, 2006, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blasting-a-skin-tag/364324 "2006-07-13T14:22:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blasting-a-skin-tag/364324/21 "2006-07-13T21:43:00Z")

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[QUOTE=Qadgop the Mercotan]  
Some skin tags are [big](http://162.129.70.33/images/fep_1_020727.jpg). Don’t mess with this kind.  
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Don’t mess with that kind?!

I don’t even want to be anywhere NEAR that kind!

It looks like he’s growing a fig…

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**Author:** ![robcaro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@robcaro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robcaro)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blasting-a-skin-tag/364324/22 "2006-07-13T22:35:52Z")

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My Dad used to remove them by tying a knot of pure silk thread around them very tightly. They just wither and die painlessly. The thread has to be silk though but I don’t know why except that other types of thread just don’t work well.

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**Author:** ![Common\_Tater](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/common_tater/32/13846_2.png) [@Common\_Tater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Common_Tater)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blasting-a-skin-tag/364324/23 "2006-07-13T23:22:55Z")

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[QUOTE=robcaro]  
My Dad used to remove them by tying a knot of pure silk thread around them very tightly. They just wither and die painlessly. The thread has to be silk though but I don’t know why except that other types of thread just don’t work well.  
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Rob, you beat me to this method ! I had one on my neck in an inconvenient place and someone told me about the thread method. I admit I didn’t use silk thread, just standard sewing thread. Amazingly I was able to contort myself enough to tie a knot around that thing. It took about three days I think, and worked just fine…

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