Editorial policy

Last updated August 5, 2026

Where our information comes from, who checks it, how providers get listed, and what we do when we get something wrong.

Sourcing

Clinical statements on this site are written against primary sources and checked before publication. In practice that means:

• Clinical guidance — the American Academy of Dermatology and comparable specialty bodies for what skin tags are, how they’re removed, and when a growth warrants examination.
• Regulatory records — FDA approvals, safety communications, and warning letters, which is the basis for our flat statement that no over-the-counter drug is FDA-approved for skin tag removal.
• Peer-reviewed literature for anything about recurrence, complications, or associations with other conditions.
• The practices themselves for services, methods, credentials, and pricing — published rates first, direct confirmation second.

We don’t source clinical claims from retailers, affiliate roundups, or other directories. Where the evidence is thin or mixed, we say so in the sentence rather than rounding it into confidence.

Writing and review

Pages are researched and written in-house, then fact-checked against the sources above by a second person before publishing. Every city page carries a visible Updated date, and the site-wide review date appears in the footer. We re-check city pages on a rolling basis — pricing and provider details change faster than clinical guidance does, and stale prices are the failure mode we care most about.

Practices we list have no input into our copy. They don’t review drafts, they don’t approve wording, and they aren’t sent pages before publication.

How we vet and rank providers

Before a practice appears on a city page, we confirm:

• Licensure and credentials — an active license in the state, and, where we describe someone as a dermatologist, board certification. We label medical spas as medical spas rather than blurring them into dermatology.
• That they actually remove skin tags, and which methods they offer — snip excision, cryotherapy, electrocautery, or laser.
• Current contact and location details, verified against the practice’s own listings.
• Patient-review signals across public review platforms — read for consistent themes, not treated as a score.
• Pricing transparency — whether the practice will state a per-tag price up front. Practices that won’t are still listed; we just say so.

Ordering on a city page reflects that review. It is an editorial judgment, not a measurement, and it is never for sale. Inclusion is not an endorsement or a guarantee of outcome, and it is not a recommendation that you choose one provider over another — verify credentials and current pricing yourself before you book.

Advertising and revenue disclosure

No practice pays to be listed, ranked, or featured on this site, and no listing on this site is an advertisement. We accept no payment, commission, or referral fee from the providers we compare, and we don’t sell or share visitor information with them.

If we ever introduce advertising, sponsorship, or affiliate links, they will be labeled as such on the page where they appear and kept out of the editorial ranking. The full revenue picture — what we take money for, what we refuse, and what changes if that ever shifts — lives on how we make money.

Corrections

We correct errors rather than quietly editing them away. If a factual error is material — a wrong price, a wrong credential, a wrong clinical claim — we fix it and note the change and its date on the page. Non-material fixes (typos, broken links) are made silently.

Spotted something wrong, or run a practice whose details have changed? Email hello@skintagsgone.com with the page URL and what should be different — see corrections and listing updates. Practices may also ask to be removed from the directory, and we honor that.