Use a Hair Dryer to Painlessly Remove Band-Aids

Bandages are, literally, a pain to remove, but Redditor wallaceeffect believes he has a solution: blow dry the band-aid on high heat before ripping it off. I decided to give this a try and find out if warm air really made a difference.

[Garlccc]

i have an active scrape on my knee and when i tried to remove the bandage off, it literally hurt like hell...soaked it, applied oil and petroleum jelly, worked halfway but still hurt slightly...finally i tried blow drying and GOD, it helped me so much...I actually all the way while removing the bandage slowly...I think both appying a lube+blow drying method works the best...u can keep the temperature at low...

[CognosSquare]

Had not heard about this one. Does this work when doing a brazilian wax also?

[grege]

Blow drying is worse cause the glue goes liquid and then drys fast and hurts after 30 min

[Cognitiveleaper]

I don't know why everyone
is being so hostile.
This is actually super smart.

[Liramek]

You guys don't understand that this goes for almost anything sticky that is stuck to you, like duct tape, a bandaid, you could even remove fly paper or glue traps like this.

[mangofamily]

someone tell me... does this actually work? 😕

[kaak]

wait when you take off a band-aids and there is a seam?

[dsboomer]

this would only make sence for ducktape, bandaids don't hurt when taking them off.

[griffin]

No, but it just takes about 1 second to take it off of your arm and doesnt hurt

[nyanjawrecker]

@NaTelc well what if u have a skin condition?

[tshepp]

This could be useful for people who have heavy bandaging on their hairy legs or something. You can extend the theory beyond a simple bandaid on your arm people!

[TheYuxiaodi]

just soak it in warm water and rub it off... no pain at all.

[MrAsternine]

i dont understand why would anyone do this .. takes soo much longer
just take the band aid off

[jgkilian]

since when was removing a band-aid sore? o.o

[Kingdom]

You can always just use a watered down sponge and put it on the bandaid for 20 seconds then rip it off

[AlexChama]

I think the tip is mostly useful if you have little children.
You'd might even say "suck it" to the child (in a less rude way of course), but it's you who's got to deal with the "discomfort" of said child :P

[jralocalsonly]

What the fuck are we doing lifehacker? LOL.

[thaqalain]

Well it was pretty useless, I mean how painful does it have to be that one makes a video of it to reduce the pain ... by a small amount. However the viewer may not have the right to complain as the title of the video did state what it was going to be about, I guess it's our fault for still watching expecting a standard usefull/quality video from LifeHacker ..

[maguirew]

I would much rather find a blow dryer than suck it.

[rkshireygames]

I dont know how you got I touch my own poop out of "Who touches there own poop"