3M Micropore Tan Surgical Tape 0.5" Wide -2 Rolls

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

This tape worked great on SO many levels!I had Mohs surgery for a lesion in the middle of my eyebrow. My surgeon recommended I use the 3M paper tape and told me there was a tan version available. Using this flesh-colored tape (with gauze packing in the wound) enabled me to go to work the next day with my thin hair "drooped" over my eyebrow, without a single person seeming to even notice I had a hole in my face! It made for a very discreet "Band-Aid." I am very fair-skinned, but this tape becomes somewhat translucent once its adhesion gets more "set," allowing it to somewhat assume one's natural skin color. (I'd started with the 1" wide tape, and progressed to this wonderfully convenient 1/2" wide tape as my wound got smaller.)It stuck very well for the entire day, even with sweat dripping onto it from above at times, yet the removal was gentle enough not to rip my delicate facial skin.Also, I tend to react poorly to tape adhesives, yet this tape left no irritation or redness! (BTW, I have used other brands of "paper tape" in the past, and the adhesion was pathetic.)I think doctors' offices should give this tape out in their "wound-care kits" (when appropriate)!

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

This tape works for mouth tape (breathing thru mouth/snoring) but it is NOT gentle. I have to use an oil (like caster) to get it off in the morning. Without oil, it has torn bits of my chin skin off.

I use this tape nightly to prevent mouth breathing. It is lightweight but does not come off at all while I am sleeping and is gentle enough that it does not bother my skin. I would definitely recommend.

Used after eye surgery. Liked flesh color and it sticks!

This is the worst tape I have ever had, it does not stick. It is either old or the heat got to it. It is just worthless. It needs to be replaced. I went to Walmart and bought other tape to keep my bandage. I would not buy any again. DO NOT BUY.

I have very sensitive skin, eczema along with other skin issues, but I had no reaction to this tape. I applied it to my hand to see if it would react through the day, but it never did so at night I applied it to my nose. Safe to say it never caused a reaction. It's a good thickness, easy to use and remove, didn't fall off once or even start to peel when I was asleep, and at a very good price.