Compound W Maximum Strength Wart Remover Gel, 0.25 Oz, Pack of 2

Reviewed on March 5, 2020 Compound W works great! My doctor recommended it. My hands are still fairly calloused, from using an axe in highschool. On my right hand were two tiny planar warts. Each was about 1/16 inch around. For many years, when they showed up, I'd just scratch then off the calloused surface & they'd be gone for months! Trouble was that they'd come back, eventually, a bit longer in the direction of scratch. So they were about 3/16 by 1/16 when I did this. Truthfully, when I got Compound W, I was a bit nervous about using it. Don't be! It's easy, painless & does a great job! Finally, on Tuesday, a week after purchase, I applied it. Easier than I thought. Sort of a gel. Best to apply after soaking the area in warm water for 5 minutes or so. Therefore I made a point to apply after a nice long shower. The gel dries in about 10 minutes & leaves a thin white layer of salicylic acid on the wart & nearby skin. Applied after shower in morning & again before bed. Each time making sure the gel dried before bumping it. Once dry, I tended to forget it was there. Usually, it stayed put all 12 hours. Amazingly, the warts seemed to gobble up the salicylic acid more than the surrounding calloused skin! Started on Tuesday & by Friday, the warts were soft & pliable! Yeah! Simply kept moving the softened wart around until, similar to a blister, I scratched them off! (Yes, just 3 days later!) But I heal very fast, so you mileage may vary! Give it at least 3 weeks or more. Remember, this only works for warts, because of they way the warts slurp up salicylic acid! On anything else, you are going to fail. But it works great on warts! ======================================================== Added March 21, 2021: Last year, I successfully used Compound W Gel & scratched off the two tiny warts in just three days. A year later, 2021, under a very strong 6000K LED light, I could see that the two tiny warts were barely visible, again. Had I not known where to look, I never would have seen the tiny warts! Perhaps I wasn't patient enough the first time & scratched them off too soon. So, again, I dug out my almost-new tube of Compound W Gel. It's a gel and thick. So I squirted out a tiny gel glob, stacking gel up on each tiny wart. Waited a couple of minutes for gel to dry & retired to bed. Overnight, the gel had made two quarter-inch circles from being piled so high. No more sign of tiny warts. Two or three days later, I remembered to look for tiny warts. No warts. Scratched the spots were the circles had been. Each spot flaked off a bunch of dead skin. Again, the complete annihilation of the tiny warts. Probably, if I were a good patient & more carefully followed directions, I'd get even better results! But, these were tiny warts, so didn't keep my attention. The tiny warts are gone now, with very little effort on my part! Let's give Compound W Gel at least a 10 of 5 starts! Helpful stuff!

This stuff works great for the removal of plantar warts. The only thing is that you need to apply it consistently everyday in order to get results. It's non greasy and I prefer the little gel tubes over the other wart remover that is made by compound W but it is in a small jar with a brush; that product seems to dry out and turn into gel that becomes unusable after just opening and closing the jar a number of times through use. With these tubes that is no longer an issue and I find that I could use it all the way to completion and I don't waste any. There's no smell or scent that I have recognized and the size of the tube is small enough to where it can fit in your toiletries bag relatively easy without taking up a ton of room. I highly recommend and this is very good value considering that you get two tubes.

I used compound W to remove what I thought was a large skin tag on my face. I’ve since decided it was more like a wart. I was concerned about using it on my face but nothing else had worked. The gel did work for me but I used a slightly different technique which took about 4-6 weeks. I applied the gel twice a day being careful to only put it directly on the wart. I did this for about 2 weeks .When I cleaned my face a thin scab would come off. It was like the gel was removing a thin layer of the wart each time and it gradually got smaller. I then stopped using the gel for about 10 days to allow my skin to totally heal. There seemed to be just a small layer of wart left so I repeated the process. After that the wart was gone and I had no scaring on my face. There was a slight brown discoloration like sun damage causes. A vitamin C cream is gradually lightening it. Overall I am glad I used the gel.

As described

Works, But Be Prepared for Stinging and Patience Compound W Maximum Strength Fast Acting Gel is one of the stronger at-home wart removers I’ve tried, and it definitely works—but not overnight. The gel is easy to apply thanks to its no-drip formula, and it stays put on the wart instead of running everywhere. Within a few days, you start to see the wart tissue soften and whiten, and over time it peels away. That said, this isn’t painless. The salicylic acid can sting, and if you accidentally get it on the surrounding skin, it may cause irritation or a burning sensation. For best results, you really need to be precise when applying, and it helps to cover the treated spot with a bandage or patch so the gel doesn’t rub off. Using it consistently—usually once or twice a day—is key. It’s not an instant fix. Smaller warts can respond in a couple of weeks, while more stubborn plantar warts may take a month or more of steady use. For some, it completely clears the wart; for others, the wart may shrink but come back later if treatment stops too soon. Bottom line: If you’re patient and apply it carefully, this gel is a solid, affordable alternative to a dermatologist visit. Just be prepared for some stinging, skin irritation around the area, and the fact that results can take several weeks.

This product definitely works fast. I had a wart on my left pointer finger, and it ended up getting so large it was caught on my fridge door, tore, and was bleeding before I finally started to treat it. Pretty dumb I know. My doctor recommended either freezing the wart at the medical facility, or he recommended this product specifically. He even went onto Google and showed me images so I would know exactly what to buy. He had that much confidence in this product, and I see why. I used this gel atleast twice a day, and would bandage my finger when the gel was still wet or after it started to dry. It did slightly burn at first, but that may be because my wart had torn open. After about two weeks of daily use I noticed the wart was significantly reduced in size. I stopped using the gel for a few days to see how my finger looked and to determine if the wart was still there. Because I used this product so much my skin did change to a bone white color and was very dry where the finger was bandaged. But after a few days the skin started to return to the normal color and began to peel. It appears the once large wart is now gone. I would highly recommend this product to anyone who has a wart(s) they're trying to treat. It's much more affordable than having a medical professional freeze the wart off, even with insurance. Highly recommend!

Easy to use. Works good

I used the freeze treatment from the Doctor foot company and it didn't work at all and I maxed out the number of times they said I could use it on the same wart with NO RESPONSE whatsoever. I have used this Compound W before when I was younger and it worked great so I should have started with this again. It says to soak the area for 5 minutes, so I just apply after a shower at night. It's in a small tube and you just drip a drop on the top of the area you see the wart is in. Let it dry before you move on or you'll bump the cap of liquid off the wart and it won't have any affect. I used this for about a week and a half and I could tell the layers in the skin above the wart were starting to die off. Eventually the wart area comes closer to the surface and those layers shed as well until it's smooth. I'm not exactly sure about diagnosing this as a side affect, but I did feel a little bit sick while using this. Not like vomiting or achy or sore or stomach sickness, but just slightly off. I can't tell if that's a side affect of this, or just something else I was dealing with, but it was very coincidental. Anyone else have that feeling?