Natural Cure for Common Warts

I used to get them often because the place I worked I was handling all sorts of dirty things, pallets, boxes, garbage, etc. They would always been on my hands, fingers etc. I've tried all the usual OTC stuff, including the freezing thing, that did nothing and hurt like hell. The acid gel is slow acting and would always come off at work when my hands got wet, Also I had one on my fingertip that was half under my fingernail, which none of the products would work on. I also searched the internet for some other cures, some had some promise but also did nothing. Not wanting to pay enormous amounts of money to see a doctor I resorted to my supply of industrial chemicals. Starting with the strongest, none of it really did anything except sting like hell.

Eventually I came upon something that works. I found regular 3% hydrogen peroxide reacted violently when it came in contact with the infected area. At this concentration it doesn't irritate healthy skin or react with it.

I did the following:

1. Remove dead excess skin surrounding the wart, easiest way is to soak hand in water or take a shower, then lightly remove just the top layer with a exacto knife or razor blade. The goal is to expose the actual wart itself since the peroxide doesn't penetrate normal skin easily. Do not cut into the wart it will bleed and not stop. Let the skin dry out

2. Use either 3% hydrogen peroxide from wal-mart, walgreens etc. or the 11% for hair bleaching. Pour some in a little cup or bottle cap. Fill a pipette or eyedropper with it and put 1 drop or whatever it takes to cover the surface of the wart, but not enough to drain off. It should begin to bubble rapidly. Repeat when all of the previous drop has reacted, until the wart stops fizzing. This should take about 10 minutes or so.

3. You have just killed a portion of it, it should be a white color, and now that layer of tissue needs to be removed, It should be loose enough to just rub off or you can cut it off or scrape it out. Let it dry for 5 minutes.

4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 until you get down to healthy skin, remembering to remove all dead wart tissue along the way, or if it starts bleeding. If it starts bleeding, do not continue until it has healed, usually only takes a couple hours. The Peroxide will stop your blood from clotting, and it makes quite a mess.

5. Eventually you'll have a nice hole where your wart was, you may find some black dots or white dots, be sure to scrape all those out then put in a few more drops of peroxide to clean out the wound, then put a bandaid on and you're done.

6. Sanitize all your equipment and wash your hands with peroxide to prevent re-contamination.


Notes: The things to remember is the tissue needs to be exposed for the reaction to occur so you need to keep scraping out the dead tissue. Concentrate on one wart at a time if you have multiple. Yes it hurts, it feels like putting hydrogen peroxide in a open cut surprisingly. For fingertips you can soak in a small glass instead of using drops. It took me about an hour to completely remove one using the 3% solution. I had 5, all are gone, none have come back, and it only cost me like $0.75.