Customer Reviews

PediFix Wart STICK

5 star:		(49)
4 star:		(10)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(12)

 

 

OK, this stuff works great because it's very strong. I had a wart on my hands that was there for YEARS and not it's gone. I even had my doctor freeze it twice and it still didn't go away. This stuff got rid of it in about 15 days.

HERE'S THE TIP:
The key is to isolate the wart so the medication doesn't affect the good skin. This is especially important for small warts.

Tip #1: Take a large plastic bandage (not fabric), and cut off the two sticky sides and throw away the padded portion in the middle. Take one of the sticky sides (save the other one for later) and with the backing still on it and fold it into four (half and half again). Now cut the center corner off to make a small hole in the middle - you want the hole just a tiny bit bigger than the wart. Then unfold it, take the backing off, and apply it on your wart with the wart sticking out of the hole. Now you can apply a big glob of the Wart Stick medication and you wont have to worry about it killing the surrounding good skin. Apply an second full bandage on top of the medication and you're good to go.

Tip #2: Make sure you apply the medication after a shower when the skin is soft and more penetrable.

Tip#3: If you have a stubborn wart, do it in intervals. Apply the medication for 2-3 days, then leave it uncovered and unmedicated for a day or two so it can harden and peel off. Then repeat. My stubborn wart took three rounds but with some patience, it did finally go away.

I am so happy I found this product! It just works!

I was horrified when I found not one but two plantars warts on my 7-year-old's feet. I'd had such warts myself in the past, and removing them was a painful and not always successful experience. I saw this Wart Stick, was impressed by the 40% as opposed to usual 15% active ingredient, and thought that the wax base might keep the medicine in contact with the wart longer (an issue with an active kid!). Over the course of a few weeks I rubbed the stick onto my daughter's warts, and occasionally used an emery board to take down the surrounding callous and dead wart off the top (which was a painless experience for my very sensitive girl, hurray). The first wart fell off her foot last week, and the second is about to break off. They just dry up, darken, and fall off! What a relief! I'm always having some of this on hand. No pain, no smell, no mess, and the warts just go away. What more could you ask? I'm a very happy customer.

Kathy in S.B.

This thing is better than the fluid wart removers because:
1.The wax base makes it easier to place EXACTLY.
2.The acid is 45% rather than the usual 15%.
I rub some wax on a band aid, then put the band aid just where I want it. I seal the band aid with waterproof adhesive tape and wear it for a few days.
Maybe the stronger acid will act in an evil way, so PAY ATTENTION.

I've had a single wart on the back of my hand for years & I had no problem w/ it until I moved; apparently, some warts can get worse (i.e. spread or become larger) when moving to a different environment. I went from one wart to about 16 warts in a various of sizes. I was skeptical about this product but I saw the reviews & proceeded down to my local Walgreens to purchase. After 2 days of using WartStick my warts had a dramatic improvement! Now, a week later my warts are not protruding; only evidence I have that I had warts are tiny blemishes & I'm sure those will go away. I'm ecstatic about this product and will continue using it for years to come (because I know they'll probably come back.) Oh, by the way, it was not messy, painful and didn't turn white like those liquids such as Compound W & also quicker. Highly recommended!

UPDATE: 04/2011: Its been three years since I have used the Wart STICK and its still sitting up in my cabinet. Why you ask? Because I haven't had to use it. They have not come back! The blemishes are gone as well. You can't even tell I had warts on my hand!

The product reviews I read led me to believe that this would be a powerful product. I was excited to receive this product as I've had an annoying wart on my finger for years that I can't get rid of. Unfortunately, it was a total anti-climax as it seems the one I purchased was "dead" - there was no active ingredient in it at all! I've used salicylic acid products before - and this was supposed to be more powerful than average - but it had no effect whatsoever. Usually, when you apply salicylic acid to skin, the skin turns white and comes off. When I applied it repeatedly to the wart on my finger, the skin did not turn white, in fact, there was no reaction or effect at all. As a test, I applied it to a healthy area of skin to see if there was a reaction, but - nothing. A complete disappointment.

I had a stubborn wart on my finger, and I tried everything to make it go away. I tried Compound W Wart Remover bandages, and though I thought my wart was completely removed, it returned a few weeks later. I found this product upon searching for wart remover, and I was desperate, so I just went ahead and tried it.
Because it is a stick solid, it is easy to apply exactly where it is needed, instead of using a bandage with a pre-applied remover compound. It took only a few weeks for my wart to be completely deadened, and now you can't even tell that I used to have a terrible wart on my thumb. This product is great!!!!

I wrote a mostly decent review for this product about 4 days ago, but for the sake of people who might be reading it, I MUST edit it. For some reason, though, I can't edit the stars.

This stuff is WICKED. Unless you have a wart that is equally wicked (meaning, huge and stubborn) DON'T USE THIS PRODUCT. It's 40% salicylic acid in a waxy base. This makes for a very dangerous combination, as the acid is more than capable of burning off perfectly good skin and the wax holds it in place as it does it. My desperation to have the tiny warts on my hands gone superceded my biochemical knowledge, and I put on a little bit more than the directed "thin layer." Now, I am nursing first degree burns wherever I put on the product.

If you have a monster of a wart, this stuff will rip right through it. It will do the same to your skin, though, so be very, very careful. I went to my doctor, and he prescribed Aldara cream. It's much easier on my skin.

I rarely write reviews for products, but I had to for this one. I had a wart on my pinky finger that would not go away. I tried to freeze it multiple times and tried other products. My doctor even attempted to freeze it once-it blistered but did not come off.
I decided to try this product. Within a day I could tell my wart was disappearing. It was amazing! I had no bad side effects like some of the other reviewers but I was careful to only put it on the wart. I highly recommend the Wart Stick. And it's cheap! I'm going to attack my plantars warts next!

Let me start right off by saying this stuff works. It works so well that its hard to believe that it was so ineffective for some of the other reviewers. But unfortunately that sometimes happens even with the best of products. Like all wart removers I have read about, one must remember that patience is a virtue, and this stuff is no different. Despite touting its extra strength it still takes about 10 days to two weeks on average to really remove all of a wart. But just about 5 days into the procedure you will see the wart beginning to soften and dry up. You can pick at it and remove the dried up tissue as you go along, or you can just allow the stick to do its job thoroughly and pretty much brush it away once its dead and nothing but flaky tissue. Using it is a breeze. You merely rub the stick on your wart with a light coat and then bandage it, once a day. For those that are impatient, you will not see any discernible difference in the first couple of days. But in about 5 days or a week, the results really start to show and you are on your way. This is my first time around with warts, so I can't attest to its being better than any other treatment around. What I can say is that this stuff is painless, very easy to use, and most effective. I recommend it...

A few other observations. This stick is the exact same size and shape as a tube of chap stick. It even has the same consistency. I suggest if you are one to keep chap stick lying around you make sure you separate this from it, or be careful and observant. I wouldn't want to think of what this stiff would do to someones lips. Also, the directions state to apply and then bandage, but it doesn't tell you for how long. So I apply it in the morning and keep the bandages on till they are starting to get dirty or annoying, ('round late afternoon or so). One last detail, with all due respect to the other reviewer here that described a home made system of cutting up a bandage to protect the good skin around a wart, I simply apply this to my wart, and then take a cue tip and clean all around it after application, thus cleaning up most of the excess. I removed three warts on my hand this way and suffered no drying up of good skin, or flakiness around them. All in all this stick is not one of those treatments that sacrifices effectiveness for it's convenience. Figure on about 2 weeks or so of once a day application, and you will be wart free and feeling spry in no time. Highly recommended...

I had a very stubborn wart on my right index finger, very close to my fingernail. I tried everything to remove it, from the over-the-counter freeze-off stuff, the typical paint-on salicylic acid (Compound W and another store brand), and even went to a dermatologist (twice) to have it treated with some pretty brutal acid that appeared to work at first but didn't completely get rid of the wart. After this, the wart came back with a vengeance, and I was at a loss as to what to do. After looking at the reviews of this product, I thought I'd give it a try. The wax-based formula makes it easy to use (the paint-on liquid kind is hard to keep only on the wart and also tends to dry out in the bottle fairly quickly.) The Pedifix took a while to work, but I used it nightly and put a bandage over the wart, then took the bandage off in the morning to let the wart dry out during the day. At night, I filed the wart with an emery board and applied the Pedifix and a bandage. About 3 weeks later, my wart is completely gone. The process was pain-free too. Great product!