Ideas

Patent it and you can get rich.
Tommy

u cant patent it because Duck tape already has it... why am I going to buy your product?

Why must the product remain "a roll or a block of duct tape"? Wouldn't it be simpler to have them in patches like band aids? Interesting find though, I'll try out the duct tape method the next time I get a wart!

ouch =)

Just want to point out that whether you can patent something is irrelevant in this forum. Aspirin, automobiles, computers, water, t-shirts, watches, televisions, radios, the Internet -- relatively few of the things around you are protected by patent, but that doesn't stop them from making money.

Very good point jsfour :) CH is about money making ideas :)

I like it. And it is one of the few reasonable non-.com suggestions that I have seen so far (I myself am guilty of submitting a .com idea...)

They discussed the duct tape solution on an NPR a while back. It does work, as the adhesive interferes with the wart growth. I tried it on my foot and shrunk a wart, but I could not kill it completely. The little pads and stickers commonly sold would work fine in some places, but they roll off onto your socks or sandals. Duct tape sticks better than bandaids and you can rip off a liberal strip in the perfect shape to cover the whole wart. I left it on for two or three days, through several showers, and changed the dressing to repeat (It did stink, literally). The wart shrank pretty far, but after ~ two weeks I noticed it was burning the healthy skin around the wart (it was stinging and red) and had to give up this process (Don't discount the adhesive as an active and effective agent). It has been about a year since. While the wart persists, I rasp it down a couple times/week with one of those Dr. Scholls files. I might try Duct tape again, but the regimen will be less aggressive. The convenience to rip off a strip, stick it on and not have to mess with it for a couple days was golden. And, compare the price to a dermatologist. One tried burning my wart, and another tried freezing it off. These worked similarly well to the Duct tape, but both procedures were supposed to take 4 or 5 visits for 5 minute treatments at $100 to $165/treatment. I think the doctors will admit that the virus will remain in your body and may resurface unpredictably.

I like your idea, but consider how you might develop a system that can adjust to widely varying individual responses. (A systematic way to titrate between burning the wart and burning skin). Let me know if I can help you with this.

The duct tape theory probably works for some, the action of covering the wart with something that does not let it breathe is the key component. Several years ago I went on an outdoor trip for 3 weeks, I put a bandaid on my wart to completely cover it ( the kind that has adhesive around the pad as well ) and over that time of 3 weeks I kept changing the dressing ( which does stink as others have stated ) I noticed at the end of my trip it was gone and it has never come back since.

I think it was the fact that the wart had nothing to live off of, no air...no anything.