Comments on: Freckles Frozen Off With Dry Ice (Feb, 1933)

By: joy

joy — Mon, 09 May 2011 03:15:40 +0000

It does work. The derm told me it kills off the melanin in the skin. He got me with his dry ice gun, and it peeled right off in a few days.

By: katty

katty — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 12:03:36 +0000

ive ice burns over my freckles b4 the skin came off and the freckles were gone this would work

By: billybravo112

billybravo112 — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 03:40:16 +0000

Charlie, by reading some of your comments, you sound like an apologist. Perhaps this article mentioned white skin because freckles are most common or most visible with caucasians? You’re a sign of the times. People WANT to find ways to be offended or villify the white devil.

By: Sam Hilberg

Sam Hilberg — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:51:26 +0000

I’ve got one on my penis. (Not the head.) It sounds to me that removing it with dry ice would REALLY hurt

By: Steve Packard

Steve Packard — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:05:14 +0000

This technique is still around – it’s a form of minor cryosurgery. These days it’s more common to use liquid nitrogen, but occasionally they still use dry ice, or a fluid cooled with dry ice.

It basically kills tissue on contact and the area of skin will fall off. It’s done very commonly as a simple way of removing warts and sometimes small skin cancers. It’s also used to remove growths like skin tags or occasionally large moles, if the person doesn’t like them or considers them unsightly.

I’ve never heard of it being used to remove freckles. It seems a bit extreme. Sure, it *could* be used as a means of removing a freckle. Of course, it runs the risk of leaving a small scar in its place. I guess if you really hate your freckles, it might be worth it.

By: addie

addie — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:37:31 +0000

Didn’t this just burn people, badly, on their faces?
Oy, what people do because of, basically, self hatred. I mean, dry ice when nothing is wrong with you!
Isn’t red hair cool because it is rare and freckles just come along with red hair? I do not understand people, never did.

James Cagney barely shows up in photographs, except for his freckles, when he is not wearing a lot of make-up.

charlene–I never heard that inquisition/Jewish thing, but it sounds pretty believable.

Chuck–you are adorable!

addie B)

By: A Woman

A Woman — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 20:51:09 +0000

That remedy is still around but is used for warts, which really need to go as they are a nasty infection that has no business on skin.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:36:30 +0000

My wife has freckles. A lot of them! On our second date she gave me a little wooden sign that says “A face without freckles is like a sky without stars.” I was never a fan of freckle faced red heads until I met her, now I cannot imagine how plain her face would look without them.

By: Emad

Emad — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:01:17 +0000

We all know that ginger kids have no souls… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_kids

By: katey

katey — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:14:59 +0000

I’ve also come across ‘home remedies’ to get rid of freckles, from rubbing your skin with half a lemon to bathing in a weak bleach solution.

And when makeup became socially acceptable, most women used pancake foundation to cover up their complexions.

By: Charlene

Charlene — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:42:07 +0000

I don’t think so. Moles weren’t usually seen as detriments to beauty, but freckles were considered to be little short of birth defects. There were tons of patent medicines sold for the sole purpose of removing freckles from the face. (And yes, they were thought to be superficial, and it was thought that they could be peeled off with the right drug.)

Americans sometimes assume that this was caused by anti-Irish prejudices, but the bigotry goes further back than even that: during the time of the Inquisition and the expulsion of the Jews from many countries in Europe, freckles were thought of as a sign of Jewish blood.