Tiny Plant Stickers

• Plant stickers (e.g., stinging nettle), cactus spines, or fiberglass spicules are difficult to remove. Usually they break when pressure is applied with tweezers.
  • Wax Hair Remover: Warm up wax in your microwave for 10 seconds, and apply a layer over the skin containing the stickers. Cover it with the cloth strip that came with hair remover. Let it air dry for 5 minutes or accelerate the process with a hair dryer. Then peel it off. It will remove most of the stickers. The others will usually work themselves out with normal shedding of the skin. You can also try all-purpose white glue, but it is far less effective.
  • Tape: Another option is to lightly touch the area with packaging tape or another very sticky tape.