We get it: You see a skin tag and you want it gone immediately. You want an at-home remedy that doesn't involve a trip to the doctor's office. While Google might offer you natural skin-tag remedies like tea-tree oil, apple cider vinegar or (yikes) dental floss, Lolis calls BS on such skin tag removal strategies.

"These are just a few of the claims I've seen, but I don't believe any of these home remedies are effective," Lolis says. "I've had patients come into my office with dental floss tied around them, and the skin tags can become more painful and infected."

Just as you wouldn't expect vinegar or tea tree oil to remove skin from your arm, such at-home remedies won't work on skin tags -- which are, essentially, just excess skin. The only true way to remove skin tags is to physically cut, burn or freeze them off, she explains -- which you should definitely not try at home (unless you relish the prospect of infections and scarring).

First, the bad news: Even if you do have your skin tags removed, while they'll never occur in the same spot again -- they might appear on other areas of the body. The good news? They're fairly quick and painless to eliminate if they are bothering you enough. Plus, you have a few options for nicking them. The price of the procedure varies, depending on how many skin tags you have removed and which physician you see, but according to Lolis the general window is $300-$500.

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Cutting off a skin tag is the most common procedure for removing skin tags, and it's not at all painful when done by your dermatologist. "We numb the skin tag with a local anesthesia first," Lolis says. "Then, we use a gradle scissor to cut the stalk."

This procedure is perfect for those seeking instant gratification, as the skin tag is gone immediately. Just be sure to keep the area covered with a bandage for a day or two, so as not to irritate the area further.

Cauterizing skin tags (i.e. burning them off) is another quick and effective method for removing skin tags -- and, as with cutting, the results are immediate. "By cauterizing them, you are burning off [the skin tags] and the cells that cause them" -- to lessen the chance that they will return. While they shouldn't occur in the same area, unfortunately there's no 100 percent guarantee they won't appear on other regions of your body.

Much like removing warts, freezing off your skin tags is another quick and easy solution. "We freeze off skin tags with liquid nitrogen," Lolis says. This causes the skin tags to fall off within a few days.

When you remove skin tags by freezing them, you're essentially killing the cells causing it to grow. However, says Lolis, this solution isn't for those seeking instant gratification. "If you have them frozen off, it can take up to five days for them to be removed," she says. "I always recommend having them cut off for immediate results."