If you’re planning this as a health/recipe-style article, I’d avoid claiming that petroleum jelly can remove a skin tag overnight. Petroleum jelly can moisturize and protect irritated skin, but it doesn’t reliably make skin tags fall off.
A safer article angle would be:
How to Deal With Skin Tags at Home: What Petroleum Jelly Can—and Can’t—Do
- Petroleum jelly: Apply a thin layer to reduce friction and protect the surrounding skin, especially where clothing rubs.
- Don’t cut, tie off, burn, or chemically remove a skin tag yourself. These methods can cause bleeding, infection, scarring, or injury.
- For actual removal: A dermatologist can remove a skin tag using methods such as freezing, snipping, or cautery.
- Get it checked first if the growth is changing, bleeding, painful, unusually dark, or you’re not certain it’s actually a skin tag.
