Submitted by TexasTerry at RVScrapbook.com - painless tick removal for camping pets...
Painless Tick Removal
This is great , because it works in those places where it's some times difficult to get to with tweezers: between toes, in the middle of a head full of dark hair, etc.
Apply a glob of liquid soap to a cotton ball.
Cover the tick with the soap-soaked cotton ball and swab it for a few seconds (15-20), the tick will come out on it's own and be stuck to the cotton ball when you lift it away.
This technique has worked every time I've used it and it's much less, painful, traumatic and easier.
Unless someone is allergic to soap, I can't see that this would be damaging in any way.
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