What Causes Warts?

Cuts From Shaving

The virus that causes a wart typically needs to enter the skin to cause a wart. The most common way for this to happen is through a small cut or nick. Cuts from shaving are a common means for causing an infection. This is why men tend to develop warts around the beard area while women are more likely to develop warts on their legs.

Keeping your skin as nick- and cut-free as possible is one of the best ways to prevent warts, although this can certainly be a challenge. Always use a sharp, new razor when shaving to reduce the risk of nicks. If you develop a wart in an area where you shave, shaving over the wart can easily spread the virus to the razor and other regions of the body. Suffocate the wart with tape or nail polish to contain it and keep it from spreading and shave around the wart until it goes away.

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