I was looking for come Compound W (or something generic) for a wart on my foot. The cheapest was $6.99 for about a third of an ounce. But then I found this “Liquid Corn/Callus Remover” for $3.99. The active ingredient for both is “Salicylic acid 17% w/w”, but there were some differences in the inactive ingredients. There in nothing on the corn/callus medicine regarding warts.
Are these 2 things basically the same, with different packaging?
Can I use them interchangeably?
Can’t answer this, but I’ve just removed a wart from my hand using … banana skin. I still can’t believe it. Just take a small piece of the skin (I cut a tiny square) and I sellotaped it over the wart, skin side out. I could feel it taking action. If I’d been consistent it would have probably been gone in a week, as it was it took about ten days.
Based on the following, I think you are good:
Dr. Scholl’s Liquid Corn & Callus Remover 0.33 fl oz (9.8 ml) $6.49
Active Ingredients: Contains: Salicylic Acid (17% w/w)
Inactive Ingredients: Castor Oil, Ethyl Lactate, Flexible Collodion, Polybutene, Alcohol (18% v/v), Ether (53% v/v from flexible collodion)
Dr. Scholl’s Clear Away Liquid Wart Remover System 0.33 fl oz (9.8 ml) $9.49
Active Ingredients: Contains: Salicylic Acid (17% w/w)
Inactive Ingredients: Castor Oil, Ethyl Lactate, Flexible Collodion, Polybutene, Alcohol (18% w/w, Ether 53% v/v) (from flexible collodion)
Also, you may want to try generics. The equate brand of Wart Remover at Wal-Mart was less than $4 for 1/2 ounce.
ETA: The inactive ingredients will vary by manufacturer. I was just pointing out above that Dr. Scholl’s sells the same liquid in two different packages for different prices.
If you have access to liquid nitrogen, that can be more effective, much more quickly. Dip a q-tip in the liquid nitrogen, then hold it on the wart until you see a whitish ice ball form underneath the skin to the radius of the wart. (This will hurt.) If, after the scab falls off, there’s still a little wart left, repeat.
I was on vacation last summer and noticed the beginning of a wart on one of my fingers. I hadn’t brought any wart medication with me, but remembered that it contains salicylic acid . . . which is similar to aspirin. So I crushed a piece of an aspirin, made a paste from it, applied it to the area and covered it with a bandage. It worked.