Avoca The Complete Wart & Verruca Treatment

I bought this as i couldn't go to podiatrist during covid. But i remembered she last used some silver stuff to treat me.Skeptically I purchased this. Read the instructions. At first i made a mess and did end up with black bits . The second attempt i was better with application but it still smudged and i was left with more black bits.The 3rd time i got a little better.After each application the wart area will turn black over a few hours. Then it will harden. After a week or two I used a sterlised blade to gentle cut the hard skin off. Oh it was soo good to see that crap slowly lift off. (Don't try this at home)I have used the product 3 times in 3 months and my wart has gone. Before this I spent money buying freeze treatments from boots costing £20 a time. I then spent money to see podiatrist £30 a time so its been about 3 years...! And finally after using this i can now finally walk barefoot freely. Except in changing rooms never walking bare in changing rooms again! I shower in my flipflops in places thats not home. It's made me so paranoid!Oh and i say use this like its liquid gold because i think we over do it as the prorduct is cheap. But you ought to literally use less than 1 drop of water. all you need is half a drop of water on a wart. Its invisible at first so don't over do it. You can't layer this on as the fluid isn't absorbed by the skin so the more you apply the bigger your stain will be. (See picture) theres one drop of water and even then that was too much. Soak the nib in the drop for 20 seconds then lift nip and draw a dot on your wart. And thats it wait to dry. Put a sock on after its dry don't apply a plaster as it'll spread the liquid and in a few days you'll see a bigger black dot than you wanted.But be patient and use little amounts and trust me it works.

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!

Picked up a verruca at the gym and used the silver nitrate 'pen' to burn it away, it went and never returned.

The silver nitrate reacts superbly with light which makes everything it touches (and I mean EVERYTHING) turn black so be prepared for black stained skin marks that lasts for 10 days+. The applicator (pen nib) is so fragile that it will fracture under the lightest of pressures so it can be difficult to complete the course without this happening.(note if the nib breaks be careful how you pick it up or its more blackened skin!!). Its effectiveness is also questionable as I have tried two to clear up a single verruca, which is still there and as healthy and as painful as ever. Best thing to do is to save your money get an appointment at a healthcentre and have them frozen off. Costs nothing and one treatment and its gone.

I purchased this in hopes of getting rid of my plantar warts on my foot. I have a cluster on the arc of my foot which aren't too embedded into my foot and one that is closer to my big toe that is stubborn. I have tried to get it freezed off monthly and have been putting a drying agent and sacaltyic acid and still it has not come off. I had it surgically removed but it grew back in a year. I tried this product and thought it would work based on the reviews. I thought I followed the directions to the T but saw that nothing was turning black on my foot. But then later on that day I saw the area I tried to apply it to did in fact turn it black. I think the product did take off a layer of the skin but it by no means got rid my warts. Maybe if I continued more treatments but the cost would be too much. I thought that you had to apply the actual product on your wart but I then looked up a YouTube video and in fact you are transferring the liquid (product and water) to your wart. Maybe I didn't read it correctly. The pen dissipated and was of no use after one use. I wish this product would include more than one pen especially with the amount of money paid.