Friday, January 26, 2007
skin tags
I am afflicted, as my parents are, with skin tags. Those are the skin color hanging moles that you can get in your armpits, neck, on your bikini line and rib cage (where your undergarments rub). I despise them with a passion and have had a few surgically removed along with some suspicious moles. I don't like being so molely but I like my freckles. I have enough to give Opie a run for his money.
Avalon Organics make the best stuff to remove skin tags. It's their
Vitamin C Serum that I used. I used it once a day, and once with a band aid at night for 14 days. Even hubby noticed the difference in my skin and I love having those nasty tags gone with little to no scaring.
I read this article on how to remove them called
Removing Moles, Warts, and Skin Tags. (NOTE: This article has pictures that are medically graphic) I think they also have a book on the subject on that same site, although I haven't purchased it myself.
If you are weird like me and want to know more about how Vitamin C renews your skin, read this excerpt below from
DermNetNZ. May you live skin tag free and prosper:
To understand how topical vitamin C works an understanding of the relationship between free radicals and antioxidants in the body is necessary.
- Free radicals are molecules created as a by-product of oxygen metabolism as our bodies create energy at the cellular level. Basically, the oxygen molecule loses one electron, turning it into a free radical.
- Free radical formation can also be augmented by external factors such as pollutants, sunlight, radiation, emotional stress, smoking, excessive alcohol, infection, and some drugs.
- Free radicals float around the body looking for electrons to rebalance themselves. If necessary, free radicals steal electrons from normal healthy cells, this being the cause of various conditions ranging from accelerated ageing to deadly cancers.
- Antioxidants protect healthy cells by donating an electron to the free radicals. The body produces antioxidants naturally and we can also get them from the foods we eat and from supplements.
Topical vitamin C has shown to protect the skin from UV damage caused by prolonged sun exposure by reducing the amount of free radical formation and/or sunburn cells. Exposure to UV light has also shown to decrease the naturally occurring vitamin C levels in the skin, thus topical application of vitamin C restores these photoprotectant levels. Other studies also suggest that vitamin C may play a part in the collagen biosynthetic pathway by activating collagen metabolism and dermal synthesis of elastic fibres.
