Are you looking into skin tag removal only to find out you may not be exactly sure what a skin tag really is? Skin tags are little growths of skin, or tumors that often look like a piece of cauliflower and are attached to your body by a stalk or a peduncle, and can grow on some of the strangest parts of your body - your face, your neck, under your arms, eyelids etc. These maddening little stalks of skin often appear under women's breasts and around their pubic and anal areas - places that may be difficult to get to for removal.

Why Do They Form in the First Place?

It's a medical fact that some people are more prone to developing skin tags than others due to several reasons - obesity being considered a large factor.Why obese people? The reason may have something to do with overweight people having large folds of skin rubbing constantly - possibly this friction may develop these growths. Women have a higher occurrence that do men. The elderly develop more skin problems than the population at large perhaps age may have something to do with it.

Cosmetic Purposes

Most people who want to remove skin tags do so for mostly cosmetic purposes. One or two growths may not be much of a problem, but if clusters develop on highly visible body parts, the sufferer may want to get them removed. I know that, in my own case, I only developed one large tag. But, this one was large and located in such an inconvenient and undesirable place I knew I wanted it removed. It was under my arm, towards my back - if I wore a sweater, it would sometimes catch on the fabric and bleed - sometimes ruining a perfectly good sweater with a blood stain!

Skin Tag Removal

There are several ways of removing skin tags both by yourself and professionally, at your dermatologist's office. If you choose to remove them yourself make absolutely certain that you're not trying to remove a mole or skin cancer. If you're not 100% certain see your doctor!

Remove Them with a Scalpel

In Skin Tag Removal Singapore method, You doctor can remove them with a scalpel, anesthetizing the skin, incising the tag, and sutchering the wound for proper healing. This may be the most popular, successful method.

Freezing

Another popular way of getting rid of these growths in cryogenically literally freezing them off with liquid nitrogen at minus 321 degrees Fahrenheit. Your doctor can also burn them off with an electrical current. I've had each one of these procedures done and, burning them off stings a bit, but is very successful and minimizes bleeding.