Causes, how to remove them, treatment options [Video]

Skin tags become increasingly common with age, but are these small growths anything to worry about? This is what you need to know.

Often, they look like warts and they commonly appear in folds of the skin – perhaps in the armpits, groin, neck or eyelids.

But skin tags aren’t warts. They are small, soft growths that are connected to skin by a thin stalk.

What are skin tags?

Skin tags are often only a few millimetres across, and may be smooth and round or sometimes appear to be wrinkly and uneven.

Most often they are the same colour as your skin, but they can also be darker.

“They are common skin growths and they can be small but may also grow to over 10mm,” explains Dr Jo-Ann See, of The Australasian College of Dermatologists.

“Skin tags are soft to the touch and some resemble rice grains or a small piece of string. They are simply excess skin growths and are …