In many cases, only one treatment is needed for each wart. Warts are usually gone in two weeks after treatment with Compound W Freeze Off®. If a wart or part of it is still there two weeks after treatment, you may then safely treat it again.

This medication is used on the skin to treat common skin and foot (plantar) warts. Salicylic acid helps cause the wart to gradually peel off. This medication is also used to help remove corns and calluses.

Easily remove stubborn common and plantar warts with this simple and effective, no-drip formula.

If Compound W Freeze Off® Advanced is not used exactly as instructed or you mistakenly apply it directly to the skin or use it on conditions that are not warts, it may cause serious burns and permanent scarring of the skin.

Wart-Removing Acid: If there are many warts, treat the 3 largest ones. Since it's an acid, avoid getting any near the eyes or mouth. Also try to keep it off the normal skin. The acid will turn the wart into dead skin (it will turn white).

The medicine will turn the top of the wart into dead skin and it will all turn white. Once or twice a week, remove the dead wart material by rubbing the dead skin off with a pumice stone or washcloth. The dead wart will be softer and easier to remove if you soak the area first in warm water for 10 minutes.

With wart medications, such as salicylic acid, the wart should peel away in stages until it is as flat as the skin. If this does not happen, the treatment may not be working.

Electrosurgery burns the wart off with heat, while curettage scrapes the wart away. Other strong treatments for wart removal include: Bleomycin: Bleomycin is an anti-cancer medication that a doctor injects into the wart.

Q: What are the signs that a common wart is going away? A: When it is clearing up, or “dying”, a wart may shrink and start to disappear. This may happen on its own or with treatment.

The black or red-brown dots, that are sometimes visible in the wart, are smothered capillaries (the tiny blood vessels that turn fingertips back to pink after pressure is applied). As the wart virus causes layers of extra skin to pile up, the capillaries get “smothered” and die, leaving the black dots.

Wart-Removing Acid: If there are many warts, treat the 3 largest ones. Since it's an acid, avoid getting any near the eyes or mouth. Also try to keep it off the normal skin. The acid will turn the wart into dead skin (it will turn white).

Q: What are the signs that a common wart is going away? A: When it is clearing up, or “dying”, a wart may shrink and start to disappear. This may happen on its own or with treatment.