Customer Reviews

Dr. Scholl's Freeze Away Wart Remover, 7 Treatments, Box

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This worked well for me for some stubborn warts (tried the acid route, which I think is more painful than this) and a skintag. Skin turns white, then deep red, then sloughs off in a couple of weeks and no more problem. Had to reapply twice to a couple, so be patient and let it work. Typical insurance doesn't cover cryotherapy in your Dr.s office so I think it's money well spent, esp. if you have to go back once or twice. I got the 12 application pack, as I didn't want to run out, and it was only a little more than the 7 pack. Adice: hold on the area long enough to be sure it's all white, which may be longer than instructions say.

I had a small but stubborn wart on the side of my index finger and with the help of this product, I finally got rid of it. To be effective, you need to alter the directions somewhat. First, I clipped the wart off (very painless to do so for me). Second, I treated it twice two days apart. The first treatment I held the applicator on the wart for the recommended time. Two days later when treating again, I held the applicator on the wart for at least twice the length of time as recommended in the instructions. Yes, it was uncomfortable and was borderline painful. A day after the second treatment, the area formed a pretty good blister which I ended up draining and then kept the area covered with a bandaid until it was healed enough to stay uncovered. It is now approximately four weeks later and there is no sign of the wart returning. Previously, it would begin to return in less than a week. I'm confident enough with the way it looks that it is now gone for good.

I used the product for 3 weeks. I had a wart on my index finger (a rather large one too). I froze it and within 24 hours used the acid. What made this a success that isn't in the instructions is I used an emry board, filed the wart before applying the acid and wrapped the treated finger with a bandage. 2 weeks later I refroze the same and followed the acid/filing, bandage procedure for another 7 days. It has been 2 months and you wouldn't be able to tell I ever had a wart on my finger.

I noted there was blood vessels below the wart and once the blood vessels disappeared is when I decided the wart was no longer.

I would definitely recommend using the product though as another user stated, a child may find it to be an unpleasant experience.

I like this product, and have achieved great success for the two times I've used in over quite a few years. This comment is about it's use this last week.

I used a razor blade to trim off excess skin. I'm not worried about how it feels or bleeding, you might like to use and emery board etc. I trimmed the area right to that little cluster of dots and it was sensitive. Follow their directions to the letter before going off changing things a little like I did. Prior to applying take a minute to look at exactly where you want to put this thing so you cover the area in question and don't just freeze a spot for fun which it's not. Decide where your part in question will be resting to apply this and practice how your applicator hand movements will carried out If you press this thing on firmly, I pressed hard, you will feel sore but then about a minute after you remove it and things warm up you will be wide awake for that one. It's just like when you get something real cold in the winter ie feet/hands and when you warm them up they hurt.

Now this is how I got the most out of this device after previously having treatment done by my Dr. with his much larger freeze machine. I found that after pressing hard for one minute I had a very nice white, very cold, and very numb ring with two of those little dot clusters well with in the ring. About a minute later as it warmed that brief sore feeling came and went. After a couple days I had a nice blister with blood inside. A couple days later I had a hard dry blister which pretty much came off on it's own with those little dots in the middle of it. I found more dots on the new skin underneath but they were dead and came right out. Worked the same as going to my Dr. right down to that last blister.

I tried the whole filing the warts down with emery board as suggested and doing it after a shower so the skin was soft. I used all the treatments and the wart is still there. Maybe the product isn't meant for Plantar warts (though it says it is) but I've had this stubborn wart on the side of my big toe for a long while and have even had a doctor try to freeze it off. Been so busy I just never got around to going back to the doctor to try it again, thought I'd give this stuff a try...

To be completely honest, I think you'd have better luck using a Q-tip and a can of spray air upside down...

Maybe it works on other warts but for me, it did nothing to my plantar wart.

The first time I used the wart remover, I followed instructions completely and froze the wart for about 15 seconds. The top of the wart turned white and fell off in a few days. Two weeks later the wart grew back. I treated it a second time, but this time for about 40-45 seconds, far more than recommended. When I removed the applicator from the wart, I had a white crater in my neck. I was concerned that I had overdone the procedure, but the normal color returned in a few minutes. The next day the area turned black and blue. Four days later the wart fell off and hasn't returned. I used this same process on 2 other smaller warts, both successfully. Dr. Scholl's Freeze Away Wart Remover, 7 Treatments, Box

I highly recommend this product. The biggest problems with this product is that the bottle is small and it's easy you use it up quickly. That and as noted by some other reviews, the instructions included aren't going to work as good as you using the product more than recommended. I'm guessing that the instructions were written by their legal department, or something. When I used to go to the doctor to get warts removed, they would use way more on it than these instructions would have you use. So of course, if you follow the instructions, it will only be good for removing fairly small, flat warts. What I do is I do not remove it after 20-40 seconds like the instructions say, I leave the applicator in as long as I think it's doing some good. Even if that's a minute or more. On my first attempt I did that 3X over and got the usual blister then next day, just like when I used to get them removed at the doctors office. On a small, relatively flat wart 1X worked just fine. So just use your own good judgement here and you should get good results. Note that even going to the doctor ans with as much as they sometimes use it can take more than one attempt as well.

I used a number of these multiple times on my two small warts on the bottom of each foot. I tried it per the directions multiple times and well as try it repeatedly and quickly, but against the bottom of my foot, it didn't even feel cold. It does feel cold to the touch, but definitely not cold enough to cause a wart to die and scab away. I could not get it to cause my skin to turn white like the directions said that it would. I have even tried two separate packages and attained the same results with both packages.

This may work if you have a little wart under very thin skin, but on a calloused area, it will probably do nothing.

Back in college I got 3 large plantars warts from the community showers. I used this product and every other wart remover under the sun for 2 years with no success in getting rid of them. Finally after giving up on getting rid of my "triplets" they went away on their own. 5 years with no warts and then one day out of the blue I thought I had a piece of glass stuck in my foot. However, two weeks later I could see that one wart was returning. I don't know if they go dormant or not. Two weeks after that another popped up on the other foot.

I purchased this product with hope of zapping the problem before it got out of had like last time. However, the more I use wort remover the larger they seem to get. I have used two freeze away packages in every way imaginable and the warts keep growing. It doesn't work for me at all.

For me, following directions on the package was not effective. In order to successfully freeze the wart, I had to clip the wart down to raw skin. Then I proceeded to freeze it. It wasn't until then that the wart finally went away for good (3 years later and it hasn't come back).