GRIP IT AND RIP IT:

Warts and all, duct tape fixes anythingWarts and all, duct tape fixes anything (JIM RITTER, October 15, 2002, Chicago Sun-Times)

Here's yet another use for all-purpose duct tape: It does a great job removing warts.

Duct tape works even better than the standard treatment of freezing warts with liquid nitrogen, according to a study in the October Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. [...]

Each duct tape patient, or parent, cut a piece of tape the size of the wart and put it on. After six days, the patient or parent removed the tape, soaked the area in water, then gently rubbed the wart with an emery board or pumice stone. The tape was put back on the wart the next morning. The cycle was repeated for two months or until the wart disappeared.

It's also an effective, though bracing, depilatory. Posted by Orrin Judd at October 15, 2002 10:21 AM