I usually just use fingernails and grab the little sucker and yank. :) Gloria On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Marie McHarry <mmcharry at gmail.com> wrote: > Snopes says that soap won't work: > http://www.snopes.com/oldwives/tick.asp > > I didn't check because it made sense to me that a detergent solution > would dehydrate the tick.