Avoca Complete Wart & Verruca Treatment Kit - Fast Acting Wart Remover for Hands & Feet - Effective Plant-Based Solution for Common Warts & Verrucas - Perfect for Home Use & Travel First Aid

Just bought for the third time, tip broke off after second use both times, however is so effective I will keep buying until wart finally resolves. This treatment started working in 1 application! The skin turned black and hard and best of all it's PAINLESS.My child has a treatment resistant plantar wart and we've tried several common methods with no effect, and some attempted treatments even made it worse (inflamed/painful). This treatment started working in 1 application!I was very disappointed the tip broke off during the second application BOTH other times I've recently purchased this. The first time I crumbled up the remaining bit of tip and applied it to the wart with an adhesive bandage to hold it in place for day 3 of application. The second time it broke off I superglued the tip back on and that worked well enough to get a third application out of it before it fell off again. Disappointing.Regardless, next time I will try moistening with the water briefly before application (instead of the recommended 1 full minute) and rubbing gently instead of firmly. That may get more use out of it before it probably breaks off again.I prefer to protect the surrounding skin with NewSkin Liquid Bandage rather than petroleum jelly as it is less messy.Be warned it does stain and can cause chemical burns that appear the next day on intact healthy skin. You cannot see where it touches as it goes on clear, so be very careful with application.The wart is improving each time!This is the only thing that has helped me fight a couple of warts that I have been fighting for a few years now. I've tried every method you can possibly think of. This method took some trial and error too. I rolled the silver nitrate around in the water as instructed but didn't dab it off on a paper towel or anything so I made a huge mess, black ALL over my hands, looked like I had severe frost bite. I also messed up by trying to remove the scab/nitrate over the wart and then applying a second treatment on what was essentially an open wound, it did not feel good. So, don't be an idiot like me and do these things. Even though it worked and that wart is destroyed I did it in the most difficult and painful way possible.Method that worked with little to no problems. Follow instructions on prepping the silver nitrate, dab a bit on a paper towel so it isn't super wet. Place on top of the wart. Straight down, not at an angle, to avoid breaking the tip off. Push down with some decent pressure. Wait a day or two and repeat without messing with the scab other wise. Took about 4-5 days after the second application where I applied a bit of pressure to the 'scab' and it just popped right off/out. There will be a crater where the wart was destroyed but mine healed up very quickly, noticeably within the same day actually. If there is any resistance when trying to remove the scab, leave it alone and try again later!Lots of people said to use it then cover with tape and wait a few days until it's ready to come out. I'm sure this would probably work the best but I didn't read these until after the fact so can't attest.Overall very very happy. Try to avoid major user errors (like the ones I did), do some research on possible methods, and it should work out for you.Apparently silver nitrate treatment for warts is common in the UK. In the US it is almost unheard of. I always used salicylic acid when I was a kid; but it never worked well. It took dozens of applications, and I'd always end up just cutting it out. My wife was pregnant and got a nasty wart (this is common I guess.) It was on her toe and went under her nail. It was huge and revolting and it wouldn't even freeze off because of the location. She was told not to use salicylic acid when pregnant, so I looked for alternatives and found silver nitrate. Apparently that is OK for pregnant women (but don't take my word for it.) Well, we applied this to her wart. It turns everything it touches completely black after a day or so (this is probably why it is not so popular in the US) but it destroyed the wart in two applications! Yes, TWO applications. I should mention that we really nuked it each time, but still. The doctor had already tried freezing it off 3 times to absolutely no effect. She actually went in to have yet another freezing application while it was black with the silver nitrate and the dermatologist made some stuffy comment about how he couldn't do anything when he couldn't see the wart. Well, he never needed to again, because this worked where he failed. We could have saved a lot of trips to the doctor. I wish he knew about this.It is now two months later and the skin is completely clear--no wart, no blackness, not even a mark. I am really impressed with Avoca. It is cheap (even though it came from the UK!) and it worked like a charm. The only down side is the temporary blackness. It looks like someone used a sharpie on you skin. But hey, the blackness looked better than the wart, and it was only temporary. Why don't more people know about this?I could give five stars if the manufacturing approach wasn't a complete fail. The active ingredient is presented in a solid stick form. It appears to be a compressed compound, silver nitrate in compressed crystals or granules or similar that have absolutely no structural integrity. The nub on the end of the tube breaks off and renders the purchase almost useless. But not to worry, if the tips breaks off as it surely will try this: Take a Q-tip (cotton swabs) and wet it (damp - not soaking or dripping wet) and place it in the end of tube that formerly held the applicator (a small white protrusion of silver nitrate surrounded by a plastic collar) and spin the wet Q-tip a few times in the opening of the tube, while making contact with what's left of the silver nitrate, you get an applicator that works quite well. Caution, this stuff stains almost anything including skin. Be careful to not get in on any other surfaces. They recommend surrounding a wart with vaseline to avoid the spread of the silver nitrate in solution. That said, silver nitrate swabs can be purchased online but they are expensive. They work and are much easier to control.Problems that people have with this are largely down to education. My mother was a chiropodist and I have a chemistry background, so I do have some knowledge of this stuff. Most of the problems I've read here in reviews are caused from not understanding the product.The "pencil" is made of silver nitrate, which is caustic when applied to the skin. The skin turns black, and the top layer dies and will eventually exfoliate (flake away) either naturally or by using an emery board. Because it's caustic, it may sting slightly when applied but this is nothing to worry about. Silver nitrate is also very soluble, so if it gets too wet the tip of the pencil will just dissolve or disintegrate. You only need to moisten it with a drop of water - it's all that's needed. Do not over-wet it and do not use pressure when using it.I actually bought this to get rid of a skin tag (a small hanging mole) on my neck which used to catch on shirt collars and become sore. I just touched the moistened tip onto the tag once, and repeated this the next day. A week later the blackened and now shrivelled-up tag just dropped off, and now there's nothing to show it was ever there. Warts and verrucas are just other forms of skin you want to get rid of, although with them you will probably need to repeat the treatment, filing off the dead surface skin and re-applying.It is very easy to get silver nitrate and hence black marks on your skin if you're not really careful. Be precise. You can try protecting the surrounding skin by smearing it with Vaseline. If you do get black marks where you don't want them, there's nothing you can do - only time will get rid of them, in a few weeks, as the skin naturally exfoliates.Do not confused a silver nitrate pencil with a "styptic" pencil, which is intended to stop minor bleeds from cuts or nicks. A silver nitrate pencil is a "caustic" pencil intended to kill skin; perhaps it might stop a minor bleed if you're lucky but that's not what it's intended for and it may well be painful!After trying several other solutions I thought I'd give this a try for my son's foot wart. He was getting upset with the other methods.This worked swiftly and effectively and I will use it again as my first choice if the need should arise.Do watch out, as the liquid can leave permanent stains on fabric. But minor risk if you're careful.After having about 7 verruccas on one foot for well over 10 years and trying EVERYTHING else (banana, apple cider vinegar, nail varnish, duck tape, thuja, coconut oil, marigold oil, the list goes on and on) I gave these a go and my life has been changed! I never thought I would get rid of the bloody things and they made me so embarrassed and down. Like other reviewers said it does break easily which I would suggest buying a few. Only dip it in the drop of water a couple of times, just enough to wet it, then colour in the verrucas like you're using a felt tip. I put Vaseline on surrounding areas because it does stain skin for a few days if you drip it. Once the tip of the pen broke off I picked it up with a tweezer and used it that way. Really does work - persevere!Although pricey, this is the only thing that has helped me to kill my warts. I had two verrucas on my foot for 6+ years (one on my big toe, one on the ball of my foot) and I finally destroyed them with this product. It did take about 2-3 months, and I’m still battling one but it is significantly smaller than before I started treatment. I think I’m about a few weeks out from finally nuking that one.Follow the instructions and you should be successful, too. File it down until you see pink skin so you attack the root of the wart. It will HURT, but it’s 100% worth itProdotto pericoloso. Durante la terza applicazione, la punta si è rotta ed ha ustionato la pelle attorno alla verruca. Non la consiglio