3 effective homemade remedies to help remove corns

A lot of these corn removers are as effective as the drugstore brand, but cost only pennies. Here are some homemade remedies to treat your corns that use only three ingredients or less, so that you can banish them forever.

Like pharmacy remedies, they have one aspect in common; it will likely require multiple applications to get rid of your corn. So be patient!

• 1 banana skin, fig skin or pulp of a squeezed lemon
• 1 small dandelion leaf or garlic clove, crushed

  1. Scrape the inside of the banana or fig skin until you have about five millilitres (one teaspoon) of the pulp. Alternatively, you can use the flesh of a squeezed lemon.
  2. In a small dish, mix the pulp with the dandelion or garlic to make a paste. Apply paste directly to the corn, binding in place with a small adhesive bandage.
  3. When the skin is soft, gently rub the top layer of the corn away with an emery board.
  4. Repeat the entire process daily until the corn disappears.

• 5 aspirin tablets, 325 mg (adult strength)
• 2 ml (1/2 tsp) lemon juice
• 2 ml (1/2 tsp) water

  1. In a small bowl, with the back of a spoon, crush the aspirin into a powder. Add the lemon juice and water and stir until the mixture forms a paste.
  2. Dab the paste onto the corn and cover with plastic wrap, then place a heated towel over the wrap to help the paste penetrate more deeply. It will take several applications over several days before the corn falls off.

Here's an easy, inexpensive way to take care of a corn.

• 1 drop clove or tea tree essential oil
• 2 drops olive oil

  1. In a small dish, dilute the essential oil with the olive oil. Spread over corn.
  2. Cover the corn with a sterile strip bandage. Repeat application and change bandage daily until corn disappears.