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Fri Jul 11, 2008 6:30 am  |
I was browsing the internet for natural ways to minimize or remove moles the other day and found a lot of people happy with the garlic method on various forums. It works like this: you first rough up the mole a little by rubbing it with sandpaper or even poking it with a needle to improve absorption of the garlic. You then rub garlic directly on the mole from anywhere from 2-10 minutes. Then, most people will cut a small piece of garlic, put it on top of the mole and put a little band-aid on top of it and go to bed. When they wake up, they remove the band-aid/garlic and pour some hydrogen peroxide on the mole to prevent infection and keep the area clean.
There were so many people raving about this that I had to try it. I've had a light, slightly raised mole on my arm that I've been using this method on for two days and it's starting to get hard and has even became smaller. You're supposed to apply the garlic until it scabs and then for an additional day or two, then just use scar-reducing patches, tea tree oil, or a couple of other different things. If this thing works I'm going to be very surprised. People have said that after treating the mole they only see some light-pinkish skin which eventually fades.
Has anyone else tried this? This might be a really cheap way to get rid of moles. |
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Mon Jul 14, 2008 7:52 am |
It worked.  As of today I am looking not at a mole but at some pinkish skin that is about to turn into a scar. I'd much rather have a scar than a mole.
Here's how it went.. last Wednesday I rubbed some sandpaper against the mole to rough it up for about two minutes, and I stopped just before it was about to start bleeding. I then cleaned it off and took some Vaseline and rubbed a Q-tip in it, and applied Vaseline to the skin outside of the mole. I'm not sure if this step was necessary but it seemed like it would prevent some irritation of the surrounding skin. I then got some crushed (not minced) garlic (the kind that comes in a jar) and crushed a little piece more with my hands to get some juice out. I rubbed this piece against the mole for two minutes or so. Then I took a Q-tip and put it right in the jar to get garlic juice on it and rubbed this Q-tip on the mole for ten minutes. After that I took a small piece of garlic, put it right on the mole and put a latex-free bandage on it. I slept, took it off in the morning and poured some hydrogen peroxide on it to prevent infection.
Thursday-Sunday, I would first clean the area and then put some Vaseline around it. Then I'd take a Q-tip, rub it in the jar of garlic (mostly in the juice that accumulates at the bottom) and put it on the mole for ten minutes. I would let it soak and occasionally twist it around a little on top of the mole to make sure it penetrated it well. Then I'd clean the area, put a little piece of garlic on the mole and a bandage over that and sleep. Wake up, take the bandage off and pour some hydrogen peroxide on it. Towards the later days, little pieces of the mole would fall off when I rubbed it with a Q-tip. It got smaller and smaller.
Today (Monday) the mole is gone. I'm just going to keep putting a bandage on it and look for scar-reducing bandages to use next time I go to the store.
It's supposedly very important to make sure that all of the mole is gone, and I think I saw some remaining bits around the outside of it, so I might have to do it again just to grab those parts. Someone referred to a mole as having layers - if all of it isn't gone after the first time, keep doing it until it is. But it might just be some skin that's about to fall off, I can't tell at this point.
I do still have a few concerns. I wonder if the mole will just come back? Only time will tell, and I'll post in a few weeks and months just to keep this updated. I wonder if this is dangerous in any way? It doesn't seem like it at all, since the healing properties of garlic have been known for thousands of years, but an opinion from a doctor would be nice. I probably won't use hydrogen peroxide every day if I do it on another mole because it says on the bottle to not use it for more than a week in a row. Maybe I'll just clean it with soap and water. Also, as a general disclaimer, get any moles checked out by a dermatologist first. |
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Sun Aug 17, 2008 5:28 pm |
I agree with SusieQ there. I think I wouldn't want to monkey around removing moles myself. Can you be absolutely certain you are dealing with a benign mole? Sometimes doctors aren't completely sure, so they send the tissue to pathology to be analyzed, when in doubt.
****Especially with children- please let a professional do it!**
And I would worry about infection afterwards.
And leaving a nasty scar. |
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Tue Jan 05, 2010 9:09 pm |
to hell with garlic,just go to a dermatologist and get the damn thing removed...you never know it could be cancer so go to a dr and be done with it.  |
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