3MMicropore Tan Surgical Tape 0.5" Wide -2 Rolls

This tan medical tape has been a big help after surgery! The flesh color blends in to my skin tone and helps mask the bandage across my cheek and nose from the cancer removal that I recently had. The tape is easy to tear if needed and is breathable. There is not a super sticky adhesive that you have to scrub to get off. The tape removes smoothly.

I’m a professional vocal coach and we actually use this medical tape, applied to the cheek to hold a wireless headset microphone to the skin. I was very happy with the tape. When applied to the skin, it did his job of holding down the headset piece without causing damage to the skin. I will definitely be ordering more!

I recently had a shave biopsy on my face and was having difficulty with keeping a dressing on due to adhesive irritaring my skin and/or constantly coming off due to the proximity to my mouth, exposing my wound to air.This tape is fairly comfortable and breathable. I can forget it's there if I'm staying occupied. The tan color blends in surprisingly well with my fair skin. I am down to having to change it twice a day instead of a dozen times a day, so I am pretty happy with that. Adhesion is pretty strong, and it does leave a slight sticky residue on my skin, which I can easily clean off with hydrating toner (Cerave). If you get it wet, it will crinkle up and become stiff, needing a change. At about $2 a roll, it's a pretty good deal.I've bought a ton of stuff trying to keep my sanity with this wound on my face, including various ointments, multiple types of spot bandages, gauze, pads, silicone tape, cutting up various sensitive skin and plastic-free eco bandages, medical cloth tape, etc etc. I have a sensitivity to plastics and petroleum-based products, acrylic adhesives, polyesters, etc. that often causes me painful blisters, rashes, and acne, as well as several allergies to ingredients commonly in ointments. Aquaphor, petrolatum, Neosporin, and Welly petroleum free antibiotic ointment all caused itching with painful whiteheads around my wound.So I finally found something that works: pure lanolin applied to calcium alginate dressing and this tape over top. The lanolin is Medela brand and the alginate dressing is Medway Medvance 1x12" rope, cut down to size with clean scissors. All purchased on Amazon. Vanicream cleanser is very gentle on my face (wash with dressing on & change after) and saline wound wash is pretty gentle for cleaning the wound itself if necessary.What sort of worked:Johnson&Johnson sports tape: nice, rubber based adhesive, very comfortable to remove with very little residue, but large sized tape was difficult to cut to size, it's quick thick and bright whiteNexcare 4 inch steristrips, cut in half: extremely breathable and comfortable, but width was just too short to cover a pad fitting my wound. Very strong adhesion, difficult to remove but left no residue. Bright white, striped, and noticeableSilicone tape: very comfortable when first applied, but I would quickly sweat under the tape, causing itching

works but hurts to take off and it smells like cardboard but still a great product

Bueno

small but mighty.comfortable on skin.

I had a rhinoplasty 5 weeks ago and I ran out of the tape my surgeon sent me home with after my procedure. I ordered this to save me a trip to my surgeons office, it looks almost exactly like the one I had so I thought it was just as good.It’s absolutely not. The adhesive is so minimal that it starts coming up 2 hours after putting it on. The last few mornings I’ve woken up and the edges around the tip and bridge of my nose were lifted up completely off my skin.My swelling is still really bad on my tip and now I need to tape my bridge 3x more than the rest of my nose because my dorsal hump is trying to grow back because this tape is so bad. I didn’t think that the dorsal hump could grow back!Obviously I was very upset and talked to my surgeon and he said it’s not uncommon for that to happen, so now I need to put 3 pieces of tape on my dorsal hump instead of one like the rest of my nose and press down on it throughout the day to smooth it back out and prevent my hump from growing back during the healing stage.Don’t buy this if you had a rhinoplasty! Just get tape from your surgeon or you could mess up your rhinoplasty and then all the healing and downtime and money spent on the surgery could have been for nothing and you don’t want to have to have another rhinoplasty to fix your first rhinoplasty! Especially over something as small as buying cheap tape online instead of asking your surgeon for some.

All of the stores around us only had the wide versions, so this was a great find.