Ive been told that escharotics like Cansema® Salve will cause a scab whether its applied to skin cancer or just healthy skin. Is this true?
No. In fact, it’s provably false. Of course, we can’t speak for every escharotic preparation ever made, but when properly made no escharotic is indiscriminate in its actions. When a Cansema® customer who is unsure of him or herself first starts using the product, we sometimes ask them to apply the product on their forearm for a few hours and see what happens. Just in case you don’t have the product handy and you don’t want to kill a few hours to find out, we’ll just go ahead and tell you — nothing. Specifically, when you apply Cansema® to healthy tissue, it gets a little red and irritated (all escharotic topicals are “rubifacient”), but no scab begins to form. The response is entirely different when you apply Cansema® to diagnosed skin cancer. You feel a much stronger response, and within 24 hours you get a scab formation (“eschar”). Recently, we had a customer send a link to a page at cancersalves.com, a site created by an author named, Ingrid Naiman. Although Ms. Naiman is familiar
