On 7/6/2011 1:24 PM, James Post wrote:

> It works great. You can also use liquid dish soap or Vaseline. Any of
> that type of thing will smother the tick and make it back out. One
> trick is to put the liquid soap or oil on a cotton ball and gently rub
> the area with it. The tick gets smothered, backs out and grabs the
> cotton ball which you can then dispose of after killing the tick. I
> find the easiest way is to use tweezers after smothering the tick and
> just drop it into rubbing alcohol to kill it.

Old wives tale.
http://www.snopes.com/oldwives/tick.asp