- Hi, I'm Parris, and I've got a couple of
previous videos about skin tag removal.
I've tried the as seen on TV products,
I've tried the homeopathic liquids,
and well, did they work?
Well, the skin tag I tried them on is still here.
With skin tags it seems you've really only got two choices.
One is you can bite the bullet,
go to the dermatologist, pay them to cut it off.
And they supposedly use a very fine, very sharp scalpel
and it only takes a moment and it hardly hurts.
Or you can be the wimpy solution person
and try the technique of tying something around
the base of the skin tag to cut off the blood supply
and it's supposed to fall off a few days later.
Now with this home remedy idea, you can take a hair,
pull out a hair, tie it around and pull it,
fishing line, various things I've read about.
But there's a company that makes a product
that will do this for you in maybe a little more uniform
and a little more reliable manner.
It's called Tag Band, and I saw their product on Amazon,
very good reviews, but a little complicated to use
because you needed to use both hands
and slide a thing with a rubber band and so forth.
Well they've come out with a brand new version
of their Tag Band, this is the Auto Tag Band,
and once you load it up, it's simply a matter
of taking this pen type object,
sliding it over the skin tag and clicking it.
And with that click, a rubber band is released
that's supposed to grab around
the base of the skin tag very tightly,
cut off the blood supply to it,
and within a few days, skin tag will fall off.
This has me a little nervous but I'm gonna give it a try.
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- I was considering giving it a go
with the Tag Band's previous product
but it just looked a little confusing
and prone to human error, whereas this one,
if you set it up correctly and position it correctly,
should be pretty much foolproof.
The Tag Band application device, this part right here,
is reusable and they include 10 bands in this kit,
you can order additional bands.
This is for medium to large skin tags, goes for about $25,
find out more about it at the link down below this video.
I'm curious to see what color the bands are
because you gotta wear it for a few days,
I wouldn't think you'd want it to be colorful,
you'd want it to be skin color.
Unless you need to remove it for some reason,
then you wouldn't want it to be skin colored.
Here's the Tag Band applicator,
it's not especially high tech.
What's going to happen is you take the loader
and put it on to the end and then the rubber bands,
which are very, very tiny,
you slide them over the very narrow end
and roll them up here until they're stretched out
and they go right on to this little tip of the applicator.
Since this is hollow inside,
you then slide this over the skin tag,
and then when you push the plunger here,
a blue piece comes out, pushes the rubber band off,
which then grabs around the base of the skin tag.
All sounds good in theory.
What color are the bands?
Well, let's see if you can even see them.
Yep, they're those tiny dots, those are the rubber bands.
They have to be that small,
so when you push them off the applicator,
they squeeze back up to that tight
and can cut off the blood supply to the skin tag.
They included 10 alcohol wipes to sterilize
the skin tag area before applying the band.
And I have to say I was a little scared looking
at the instructions when I looked at step one
and I thought oh my gosh, what do I got to poke myself with?
But no, this is an illustration apparently
of cleaning the area with the alcohol wipe.
And here you can see the steps involved
and then the waiting until it falls off.
They recommend applying this while looking in the mirror
so you can see what you're doing.
I've got two mirrors, hoping that'll help.
They recommend not loading up the applicator
until you're ready to apply the band
because you don't want to stretch it out,
you want it to be nice and snug.
Now this doesn't look at all as scary
as illustration one in the instructions.
Now, to load up the applicator with a band.
They are small, oh hey,
I already fit it over the end of that.
Now, rolling and sliding.
It's gonna be tight.
Okay, now it has slid off of the loader
onto the tip of the applicator.
About ready to do this.
I did want to mention a doctor has looked at this
and told me it's a skin tag.
And I may block your view of what's going on here
but it's more important that I see what I'm doing, okay.
(sighs)
Okay, I can't see the backside
but I believe I'm good to go here.
Okay, I've contacted the band.
There we go.
Okay, ow a little, not that much really.
In this magnifying mirror I'm looking at, I can see,
yeah the band has pretty much caught it right at the base.
My heart's pumping in my ear,
just out of my nervousness of doing it.
But I think other than that, I think that's it.
It's been a minute or so now,
it feels just the tiniest bit like the skin's being pulled.
But not really painful, just if I think about it,
then I say, oh yeah, I can feel that.
But I'm sure if I were watching TV or something,
I wouldn't notice it, so I'm gonna go watch TV or something.
The time it should take for this skin tag to fall off
could be a few days, could be a few weeks.
It should change color, generally get darker I guess
as it's dying and it's starved for blood.
And they say generally it shrinks as well.
Sometimes the band will come off
if it's like in an armpit or somewhere
where you might have some rubbing motion.
Then you've got to go and reapply a band.
Or if you have it where the clothing is rubbing against it,
that can pull the band off as well.
But honestly, this feels like it's not going anywhere.
I have some other skin tags I might try this on
but I'm gonna wait and see how this one works out first
before banding myself up all at once.
If you'd like to see which products
haven't worked for removing skin tags,
I probably did my first video on this particular skin tag,
gee, three or four years ago.
So I'll link to the other things I've tried
at the end of this video if you'd like to take a look.
And I will be back to let you know what happens here.
Or if you watch my daily videos,
you'll probably be the first to know.
You can find out more about the Tag Band
at the link down below this video
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